Lysette Anthony

Top fashion photographer David Bailey once called Lysette Anthony "The Face of the Eighties," but Anthony took the funds from her youthful career as an international model and invested them in acting lessons, eventually abandoning modeling altogether when the acting roles began coming full force. The daughter of actors Michael Anthony and Bernadette Miles, Anthony was the youngest member in the National Youth Theatre in her native England when she joined at age 14. Early roles were in TV remakes of classics, such as "Ivanhoe" and "Oliver Twist" (both CBS, 1982) as well as Lady Sarah in the miniseries "Princess Daisy" (NBC, 1983). She portrayed Angelique in NBC's 1991 update of "Dark Shadows" and scored a hit with critics as Sydney Pollack's aerobics instructor girlfriend in Woody Allen's "Husbands and Wives" (1992). Anthony found herself in demand and she was cast as the second lead in "Look Who's Talking Now" (1993) and in leading roles in two 1994 TV-movies, "The Hard Truth" (HBO) and "Target of Suspicion" (USA). Anthony appeared on the big screen in two send-ups of classic tales, "Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde" and Mel Brooks' "Dracula: Dead and Loving It" (both 1995).

Filmography

Life Events

1973

Joined parents' theater company

1977

Became member of National Youth Theater

1979

Discovered by photographer David Bailey; began modeling career

1982

US TV debut as Lady Rowena in "Ivanhoe" (CBS)

1983

Film debut as Princess Lyssa in "Krull"

1990

Starred in TNT movie "A Ghost in Monte Carlo"

1991

Played Angelique on TV remake of "Dark Shadows"

1991

First Hollywood film, Blake Edwards' "Switch"

1992

Breakthrough screen role as Sydney Pollack's girlfriend in Woody Allen's "Husbands and Wives"

1998

Portrayed Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in the London production of the comedy "Jackie"

Videos

Lord Of The Rings, The (1978) -- (Movie Clip) In The Early Years Of The Second Age Narration by Fraser Kerr, the script adapted by Chris Conkling and Peter S. Beagle, not altogether faithful but working from the first two books of the J.R.R. Tolkien trilogy, Peter Woodthorpe the voice of Smeagol, who becomes Gollum, in director Ralph Bakshi’s animated version of The Lord Of The Rings, 1978.

Lord Of The Rings, The (1978) -- (Movie Clip) Have You Left The Ring For Frodo? Following the prologue, we meet hobbit Bilbo Baggins (voice by Norman Bird), visited by wizard Gandalf (voice by William Squire), who has instructions about the “master” ring that once belonged to the “dark lord,” in director Ralph Bakshi’s hit 1978 animated version of The Lord Of The Rings, 1978.

Lord Of The Rings, The (1978) -- (Movie Clip) There Is A Third Choice Wizard Gandalf (voice by William Squire) visits Saruman (by Fraser Kerr), whom he calls the “head of my order,” to discuss his discovery of the “One Ring,” and how to deal with the rising “dark lord” Sauron, in director Ralph Bakshi’s 1978 animated version of J.R.R. Tolkein’s The Lord Of The Rings.

Family

Michael Anthony

Father

Actor. Operated touring company, Stage Arts Players; divorced from Anthony's mother; died on February 14, 1998 at age 86.

Bernadette Milnes

Mother

Actor. Operated touring company, Stage Arts Players; divorced from Anthony's father.

Frances Anthony Butlin

Half-Sister

Art restorer. Older; from father's marriage to Mary Mays.

Companions

Luc Leestemaker

Husband

Painter. Born in The Netherlands; divorced.

David F Price

Husband

Director. Married on April 23, 1999.

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1998

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