Lisa Hamilton

Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA
Birthday: March 25, 1964

An actress who seems to have talent waiting to burst out of the small featured roles to which she has been assigned, Lisa Gay Hamilton made it to primetime TV in 1997 playing Rebecca Washington, the paralegal receptionist who graduated to full-fledged attorney on the ABC TV series "The Practice". She was cast in the role after several critically-acclaimed stage performances, notably in Athol Fugard's "Valley Song", in which she played a South African teen on the verge of adulthood yearning to become a singer. Hamilton fi…more

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Actor

Vanessa
Intimate Portrait: LisaGay Hamilton
Interviewee
The Practice
Rebecca Washington
A House Divided
Julia
Until the Violence Stops
Herself

Director

The Practice
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Career Milestones

2005
Cast in the ensemble "Nine Lives"; Rodrigo García directs a series of vignettes, offering glimpses into the lives of nine women
2002
Cast as Capt. Lorna Shiro in "The Sum of All Fears"
2002
Reunited with director Johnathan Demme to portray Lola in the mystery feature "The Truth About Charlie"
2000
Cast as Ophelia in Campbell Scott's version of "Hamlet" for the Odyssey TV network; released theatrically in 2001
1998
Portrayed the younger version of Oprah Winfrey's character in "Beloved," a feature based on the novel by Toni Morrison