Lisa McAllister
| Lisa McAllister | |
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| Born | 21 November 1980 |
Lisa McAllister (born 21 November 1980) is a Scottish model and actress.
After starting her career as a model, her first acting role was in a 2000 Paul Angunawela short film called Carpet Garden Flowers. Her movie career started in earnest with the lead female role in a US direct-to-video action film, The Number One Girl, with Vinnie Jones and Pat Morita, in 2005.[1]
After being active on television, including a regular role in Dream Team, she has become a familiar face in British paranormal and horror films.[2] She returned to television in 2010 for a cameo as Anthea, the posh, eye-rolling assistant of Mycroft Holmes in Sherlock who was described by Caitlin Moran in The Times as "one of the deftest comedy cameos of the year".[3] In 2010 she also appeared in a pictorial of the British FHM.[4]
Acting career
- Carpet Garden Flowers (2000) as Kate McAllister (Short)
- The Number One Girl (2005) - Tatiana (direct to video)
- The Dark Knight (2008) - Passenger
- How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008) - Sophie Maes' Assistant
- The Rapture (2010) - Angel
- Just for the Record (2010) - Rosie Frond
- Devil's Playground (2010) - Kate
- Dead Cert (2010) - Jen Christian
- Killing Bono (2011) - Erika
Television
- Dream Team (2004–05) - Sofia Moxham
- Sea of Souls (2006) - Isobel
- Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes (2006) - Dahlia Wallace
- The Bill (2007) - Isabelle Klein
- Sherlock - "A Study in Pink" (2010) - Anthea
- Hardy Bucks (2011) - Svetlana
- Sherlock - "The Empty Hearse" (2014) - Anthea
- Drunk History - "Episode 1" (2015) - Lady-In-Waiting to Queen Victoria
References
- ↑ Lisa McAllister interview - MJSimpson.co.uk
- ↑ Lisa McAllister Interview « Gorepress - Interview by Sarah Law
- ↑ The Times - 5 August 2010 - Page 47 - "The Seven Wonders of Sherlock" - Caitlin Moran
- ↑ FHM - October 2010 - "Lisa McAllister: Sherlock's femme fatale"