Lisa Ann Walter
Celebrity
- Birthday
- August 3, 1963
- Age
- 63
- Birthplace
- Silver Spring
- Spouse
- Sam Baum
- @lisaannwalter
About
Lisa Ann Walter (born August 3, 1963) is an American actress, comedian, and television producer, best known for her roles as Chessy in the romantic comedy film The Parent Trap (1998) and Melissa Schemmenti on the ABC mockumentary sitcom Abbott Elementary (2021–present), for which she received a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Ensemble in a Comedy Series.
She was formerly the creator and executive producer of Oxygen network reality weight-loss competition series, Dance Your Ass Off. Her other reality television work includes serving as a judge on ABC’s reality television series The Next Best Thing: Who Is the Greatest Celebrity Impersonator?, as well as winning celebrity editions of the game shows The Weakest Link and Jeopardy! She also created and starred in the 1996–1997 sitcom, Life’s Work, and appeared in such films as Bruce Almighty, Shall We Dance, and War of the Worlds.
To date, Walter is the seventeenth highest-earning game show contestant of all time, having accumulated a total of $1,242,500 on her game show appearances.
Walter was born on August 3, 1963, in Silver Spring, Maryland. She and her older sister, Laura, are the children of…
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