Lisa Coleman (actress)

Lisa Jacqueline Coleman (born 10 July 1970)[1] is an English actress and volunteer occupational therapist, known for her television roles as Jude Korcanik in Casualty (1994–1997), Cam Lawson in The Story of Tracy Beaker (2002–2005), Tracy Beaker Returns (2010–2012). She will return to TV and reprise her role as Cam Lawson in My Mum Tracy Beaker (2021–present).[2]

Lisa Coleman
Born
Lisa Jacqueline Coleman

(1970-07-10) 10 July 1970
Hammersmith, London, England
OccupationActress, therapist
Years active1977–2012, 2020–present
Parent(s)Francis Coleman (deceased)
Ann Beach (deceased)
RelativesCharlotte Coleman (sister, deceased)

Career

Coleman was born in Hammersmith, London, and attended Anna Scher Theatre School at age six, going on to complete secondary education and A-levels. After working in television at various times since the early 1980s, in the mid-1990s she began a Bachelor's degree in Psychology with the UK Open University. She appeared in the BBC television drama series Casualty playing the character of Staff Nurse Jude Korcanik from December 1994 to February 1997. Her character survived a stabbing by a drug addict before moving to Crete.[3] She left Casualty at the beginning of 1997, in part to concentrate on her studies.

In 1993 she modelled for Euan Uglow's painting Articulation, posing nude.[4][5]

Her radio work includes a six-part series for the BBC in 1999, Old Dog and Partridge.[6]

She attended her graduation ceremony in June 2005, and in a subsequent interview for the Open University's alumni magazine SESAME expressed her desire to continue working with the National Health Service and long-term aim to earn a Master of Arts degree.

Lisa Coleman is the sister of television and film actress Charlotte Coleman (1968–2001) and the younger daughter of Ann Beach (1938–2017) and Francis Coleman (1924–2008).[7]

Filmography

Film
Year Title Role Notes
1981 Loophole Daniel's Daughter
1991 The Hottest Day of the Year Maja
1996 Vol-au-vent Christine

Television
Year Title Role Notes
1977 Crown Court Leonie Klein Episode: "Down Will Come Baby"
1980 Play for Today Zoe Clements Episode: "A Walk in the Forest"
1981 BBC2 Playhouse Jennifer Episode: "Elizabeth Alone"
1985 Travellers by Night Belle TV mini-series
1990 London's Burning Nurse Season 3, episode 6
Casualty Sharon Dobbs Episode: "Salvation"
1991 Screenplay Jesse Dealing Episode: "Redemption"
1992 A Fatal Inversion Office Girl Series 1, episode 3
Absolutely Fabulous Joanna Episode: "ISO Tank"
1993 Press Gang Phillipa Prescott Episode: "Food, Love and Insecurity"
The Chief Jo Season 3, episode 5
Scarlet and Black Elisa Season 1, episode 1
The Bill Lisa Carpenter Episode: "Shock to the System"
1993, 1996 French and Saunders Shirley 2 episodes
1994 Scene Veronica Episode: "SAB"
1994–1997 Casualty Jude Kocarnik Series regular, 70 episodes
1995 Bottom Doreen Hedgehog Episode: "Terror"
1998 Undercover Heart Sarah May Series regular
1999 Home Farm Twins Angela Baker Unknown episodes
2000 Peak Practice Sharon Willett Episode: "Ghosts"
The Bill Gayle Episode: "Catch a Falling Star"
2001 McCready and Daughter Andie Bennett Episode: "No Bed of Roses"
2002–2005 The Story of Tracy Beaker Cam Lawson Series regular, 52 episodes
2003 EastEnders: Perfectly Frank Teri Phillips EastEnders spin-off film
2004 Tracy Beaker's Movie of Me Cam Lawson Television film
2010–2012 Tracy Beaker Returns Series regular, 21 episodes
2011 Hollyoaks Morag Guest role, 4 episodes
2021–present My Mum Tracy Beaker Cam Lawson Series regular

Radio

References
  1. "Lisa Coleman". The Casualty Files. holby.tv. Archived from the original on 26 October 2007. Retrieved 9 October 2009.
  2. Morris, Lauren (14 October 2020). "BBC reveals first look at Tracy Beaker and her daughter in new CBBC series". Radio Times. Retrieved 17 November 2020.
  3. "Character: Jude Korcanik". bbc.co.uk. BBC. Archived from the original on 19 December 2014. Retrieved 4 February 2020.
  4. Euan Uglow: The Complete Paintings – Catalogue Raisonné by Catherine Lampert, Yale University Press (2007) Page 182 (ISBN 9780300123494)
  5. Life Modelling for Euan Uglow https://www.modelreg.co.uk/st_Articles2.php Archived 5 February 2016 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 12 June 2019
  6. Sumner, James B. (9 February 1999). "Old Dog and Partridge". radiohaha. Archived from the original on 24 December 2016. Retrieved 8 September 2009.
  7. Hayward, Anthony (1996). Who's Who on Television. Boxtree Ltd. ISBN 075221067X.
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