Lisa Ann Walter Biography
Lisa Ann Walter is an American actress, comedian, and television producer best known for her roles as Chessy the housekeeper in the romantic comedy film The Parent Trap and Melissa Schemmenti in the Peabody Award-winning ABC mockumentary sitcom Abbott Elementary, for which she won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Ensemble in a Comedy Series.
How old is Lisa Ann Walter? – Age
She is 60 years old as of 3 August 2023. She was born in 1963 in Silver Spring, Maryland, United States.
Lisa Ann Walter Family – Education
She and her older sister, Laura, are the children of a geophysicist British father of Alsatian origin born in France and a substitute-teacher/mother from Sicily. Following their father’s career, the family moved about, with childhood residences in Germany and the Washington, D.C. suburbs. She earned a theatrical degree from Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., in 1983.
Lisa Ann Walter Husband – Children
She wed fellow actor Sam Baum in 1983. Before getting divorced in 1999, they had a daughter, Delia Baum, born in 1992, and a son, Jordan Baum born in 1988. Spencer Walter, and Simon Walter, her twin sons, were born on October 11, 2000.
Lisa Ann Walter Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $400,000.
Lisa Ann Walter Abbott Elementary
Walter has played Melissa Schemmenti, a second-grade teacher, in ABC’s sitcom Abbott Elementary since 2021. Walter, together with the show’s ensemble cast, received the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Ensemble Performance in a Comedy Series in 2023 and was nominated again the next year.
Willard R. Abbott Elementary School is a largely Black Philadelphia public school where a documentary team is filming the lives of teachers working in underfunded, mismanaged classrooms. The conditions at the school are tough, and most teachers leave after their second year. Janine Teagues, an optimistic second-grade teacher, is motivated to serve her kids regardless of the circumstances.
She collaborates with awkward, well-intentioned history teacher Jacob Hill, seasoned, no-nonsense kindergarten teacher Barbara Howard, and experienced second-grade teacher Melissa Schemmenti, Barbara’s close friend with questionable connections. They are joined by new school principal Ava Coleman, who is tone-deaf, unqualified, and uninvested, as well as recent substitute hiring Gregory Eddie, who was rejected for the role of principal.
Lisa Ann Walter The Parent Trap
Walter co-starred in the 1998 Disney film The Parent Trap; in the adaptation, she portrayed Chessy, the nanny to Dennis Quaid’s character’s kid, played by a young Lindsay Lohan. In 1986, Nicholas “Nick” Parker and Elizabeth James fall in love and marry, raising twin daughters Hallie and Annie. Following their divorce, they are sent to the same summer camp, where they develop a rivalry. They bond over their similarities and resolve to swap locations to reconcile. In London, Hallie meets Elizabeth, the family butler Martin, and her maternal grandfather Charles, while Annie meets Nick and Chessy, the family nanny.
Lisa Ann Walter Career
After five years of standup comedy, Walter starred in her own Fox Network comedy series, My Wildest Dreams (1995), followed by an ABC sitcom, Life’s Work (1996-1997), which she co-created and starred in. Walter also appeared in the Bravo comedy Breaking News and the NBC sitcom Emeril. She played Claudine, Whoopi Goldberg’s tarty sidekick, in Eddie (1996).
In early 2007, Walter played Mabel the bartender in the MyNetworkTV soap drama Watch Over Me. Later that month, she appeared as a judge on ABC’s reality TV show The Next greatest Thing, which sought the greatest celebrity impersonators in America. Walter appeared in the comedic film Drillbit Taylor in early 2008, as well as in the VH1 reality series Celebracadabra, in which celebrities battled to see who was the best magician of the group. She advanced to the final three, but was eliminated in the sixth episode. She created Dance Your Ass Off, an Oxygen network series. On December 19, 2011, she appeared in a dramatic role as a ballet coach on the TNT series Rizzoli and Isles.
Her comedic memoir, The Best Thing About My Ass Is That It’s Behind Me, came out in May 2011. Walter began hosting The Fabulous Lisa Ann Walter Show, a talk show on KFI radio in Los Angeles, in May of 2011. The show broadcast for three hours on Saturday and Sunday. Walter resigned in August 2014 to pursue her acting career full time.
Walter got the Virtuoso Award at the San Diego International Film Festival on October 20, 2022. In 2023, she won Celebrity Jeopardy by defeating Mo Rocca and Katie Nolan in the final. She received a million dollars for the Entertainment Community Fund.
Lisa Ann Walter Movies
♦ 2022 – The Ladies
♦ 2020 – Jersey
♦ 2019 – Stripped
♦ 2017 – The Ice Cream Truck
♦ 2015 – You Can’t Have It
♦ 2015 – Dependent’s Day
♦ 2015 – The LA Spinster
♦ 2014 – Wish Wizard
♦ 2013 – Feels So Good
♦ 2012 – Wedding Day
♦ 2010 – Wreckage
♦ 2010 – Killers
♦ 2010 – Monsters Under the Bed
♦ 2008 – Drillbit Taylor
♦ 2007 – Graduation
♦ 2007 – Entry Level
♦ 2006 – Room 6
♦ 2006 – Coffee Date
Lisa Ann Walter TV Shows
♦ 2023 – Celebrity Jeopardy!
♦ 2021–present – Abbott Elementary
♦ 2021 – 9-1-1
♦ 2020 – Sydney to the Max
♦ 2019 – Grey’s Anatomy
♦ 2017 – GLOW
♦ 2016 – The Odd Couple
♦ 2013–2015 – The Exes
♦ 2011 – Rizzoli & Isles
♦ 2006 – Modern Men
♦ 2006 – Nip/Tuck
♦ 2006 – Watch Over Me
♦ 2004 – Las Vegas
♦ 2002 – Breaking News
♦ 2001 – Emeril
♦ 2001 – Strong Medicine
♦ 2000 – Curb Your Enthusiasm
♦ 1998 – The Love Boat: The Next Wave
♦ 1997 – Late Bloomer
♦ 1996–1997 – Life’s Work