Lisa Foster

Lisa Foster

Lisa Raines Foster (b. London, England, 1964) is a British born Canadian television and movie actress, director, visual effects artist and animation producer. She is 5'6" (1.68m) tall

Personal life

She was born and raised in Edmonton Alberta. Her father was a school teacher. She has a sister, Kim. When in her teens, she was trained by HB Studios in New York City. She moved to Toronto from New York to model and worked as an actress.

Career

Films

Lisa spent several years as a professional film and commercial actor perhaps one of her better known roles was as Mila in the mid 1980s film "Cave Dwellers" which was later mocked as an episode of the television series "Mystery Science Theater 3000". She is also well known for her role as Fanny Hill in the 1983 movie "Fanny Hill". In recent times she has directed most of her attention to behind the scenes work where she worked in various capacities as camera operator, stage manager and finally as technical director on the award winning political panel show, Week In Review (KCLA). She began her visual effects career at Cinesite in Los Angeles as part of the complex restoration team assigned to the major task of digitally reconstructing the classic Disney animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). Following the success of these never-before-seen digital techniques, she went on to work as a technical artist on such films as Coneheads (1993), Cliffhanger (1993) and the Academy Award-nominated (for visual effects) film Super Mario Bros. (1993). As staff animator at Sony Pictures Imageworks, Foster lent her skills to such films as Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995) Wolf (1994), The Cable Guy (1996), Virtuosity (1995), Hideaway (1995) and James and the Giant Peach (1996). Some of the films that include her visual effects artistry are "Die Hard with a Vengeance", "James and the Giant Peach" and "Virtuosity".

She is currently directing the new 3D animated series 'Thesaurus Rex' aimed at encouraging and challenging visual and vocabulary concepts in preschoolers. In addition to this key creative role, she has utilized her considerable technical background and created a colorful crayon world for the lovable characters to romp in.

Video Games

From there she moved into the game arena, first as a CG supervisor for Squaresoft's mega-hit game Parasite Eve, in which she also directed two key cinematic sequences, and then as a CG supervisor and Technical Director for the games and THQ's Scooby Doo. After a stint as Executive Producer for the broadcast design arm of Duck Soup in Los Angeles, Lisa took the Senior Producer position at Phantagram Entertainment, where she produced 32 animated cinematics for the celebrated game based on the Peter Jackson film for Electronic Arts as well as the opening character animated cinematic for game sequel .

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0287939/ Lisa Foster at The Internet Movie Database]


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