Lisa Banes

Lisa Lou Banes (July 9, 1955 – June 14, 2021) was an American actress known for more than 80 film and television roles, including as Marybeth Elliott, mother of Amy Elliott, in the 2014 film Gone Girl, as well as for stage appearances on Broadway and elsewhere.

Early life and education Banes was born in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, the daughter of Ken Banes, an advertiser, and Mary Lou (Shalenhamer) Banes, a model, and raised in Colorado Springs, where she attended Cheyenne Mountain High School. After acting professionally from the age of 15, she studied at the Juilliard School in New York City in the 1970s. In 1981, in James M. Barrie's The Admirable Crichton, at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut, a New York Times critic, Mel Gussow, praised the "panache" with which as Lady Mary she transformed into "a kind of Jane of the jungle". In 1995, she played Lady Croom in the American premiere of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia. Other appearances included the Broadway premieres of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia in 1995 and the musical High Society in 1998,

Death On June 4, 2021, Banes was visiting friends in New York and was in a marked crosswalk on Amsterdam Avenue approaching the Juilliard School when she was struck by a person operating an electric scooter. The scooter rider, who had gone through a red light, fled the scene of the hit and run collision. Banes was admitted to Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital with a traumatic brain injury and died there on June 14 at the age of 65. The suspect immediately drove to an Upper Manhattan shop to get his vehicle fixed. on November 30, 2022, he was sentenced to up to three years in prison.

Honors Banes won a 1981 Theatre World Award for her performance as Alison Porter in Look Back in Anger. In 1984, she was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for Isn't it Romantic.

Filmography Film

Television