Biography
Lisa Marie, also credited as Lisa Marie Smith, is an American actress and model. Born on 5 December 1968 in Piscataway, New Jersey, she studied ballet with the New Jersey Ballet and moved to New York City at the age of 15 to pursue theatre, dance and music. She began her career as a model, appearing in photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe and Bruce Weber, and featured in Calvin Klein campaigns.
She is known for her collaborations with director Tim Burton, playing Vampira in Ed Wood (1994), the Martian Girl in Mars Attacks! (1996), Lady Crane in Sleepy Hollow (1999) and Nova in Planet of the Apes (2001). Other film roles include appearances in The Lords of Salem (2013) and We Are Still Here (2015). She was engaged to Burton from 1993 to 2001.
