Lisa Jakub

Lisa Jakub

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lisa Jakub (born December 27, 1978) is a Canadian writer, yoga teacher, and former actress. She is best known for her roles as Lydia Hillard in the comedy-drama film Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) and as Alicia Casse in Independence Day (1996). Childhood and education Jakub was born on December 27, 1978, in Toronto, Ontario. She is of Slovak (father) and Welsh and Scottish (mother) descent. She attended multiple schools in her early life, including Hillfield Strathallan College. Jakub graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in sociology in 2010. Acting Jakub's first role was as Katis' Granddaughter in the 1985 film Eleni. She appeared in comedy-drama film Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) alongside Mara Wilson, Sally Field, Matthew Lawrence, and Robin Williams. When Jakub received the part of Lydia in Mrs. Doubtfire, her high school expelled her for accruing too many absences. Robin Williams wrote a letter to Jakub's high school, pleading with them to re-admit Jakub but this was unsuccessful. She played Sandra in Matinee (1993), appeared in A Pig's Tale (1994) and Independence Day (1996), The Beautician and the Beast (1997), and played the "inspiration" for Princess Leia in the short film George Lucas in Love (1999). She starred in Picture Perfect (1995) and portrayed a bordello worker in the American Old West in Painted Angels (1997). Personal life Jakub retired from acting in 2001 at the age of 22 and soon moved to Virginia. In 2005, she married Jeremy Jones, a longtime friend and former theatre manager. Jakub stated she has no plans to return to acting. Jakub later became a writer, authoring two non-fiction books: the autobiography You Look Like That Girl (2015) and Not Just Me (2017). She also contributes to online blogs. Jakub is a qualified Kripalu yoga teacher. She has openly discussed her battles with anxiety, depression and panic attacks, from which she has suffered since her teenage years, and credits her yoga practice for helping her to overcome them. In 2021, Lisa launched a new website, BlueMala, which she described as the resource that she wished she had when she was in her darkest moments. The website contains her articles on mental wellness along with her yoga and meditation videos. Writings You Look Like That Girl: A Child Actor Stops Pretending and Finally Grows Up (2015) Not Just Me: Anxiety, Depression, and Learning to Embrace Your Weird (2017) (Don't) Call Me Crazy (contributing writer) (Algonquin, 2018)

  • Title: Lisa Jakub
  • Popularity: 0.7531
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1978-12-27
  • Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Lisa Jakub Movies

  • 1996
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    Independence Day

    Independence Day

    6.897 1996 HD

    Strange phenomena surface around the globe. The skies ignite. Terror races through the world's major cities. As these extraordinary events unfold, it becomes increasingly clear that a force of incredible magnitude has arrived. Its mission: total annihilation over the Fourth of July weekend. The last hope to stop the destruction is an unlikely group of people united by fate and unimaginable circumstances.

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  • 1993
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    Mrs. Doubtfire

    Mrs. Doubtfire

    7.194 1993 HD

    Loving but irresponsible dad Daniel Hillard, estranged from his exasperated spouse, is crushed by a court order allowing only weekly visits with his kids. When Daniel learns his ex needs a housekeeper, he gets the job -- disguised as a British nanny. Soon he becomes not only his children's best pal but the kind of parent he should have been from the start.

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  • 1985
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    Eleni

    Eleni

    5.9 1985 HD

    Nick is a writer in New York when he gets posted to a bureau in Greece. He has waited 30 years for this. He wants to know why his mother was killed in the civil war years earlier. In a parallel plot line we see Nick as a young boy and his family as they struggle to survive in the occupied Greek hillside. The plot lines converge as Nick's investigations bring him closer to the answers.

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  • 1991
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    Rambling Rose

    Rambling Rose

    6.1 1991 HD

    In the Deep South of the 1930s, Rose is taken in by the Hillyer family to serve as housemaid so that she can avoid falling into a life of prostitution. Her appearence and personality is such that all men fall for her, and she knows it. She can't help herself from getting into trouble with men.

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  • 1993
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    Matinee

    Matinee

    6.646 1993 HD

    A showman introduces a small coastal town to a unique movie experience and capitalizes on the Cuban Missile crisis hysteria with a kitschy horror extravaganza combining film effects, stage props and actors in rubber suits in this salute to the B-movie.

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  • 1999
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    George Lucas in Love

    George Lucas in Love

    7.106 1999 HD

    1967 film student George Lucas has writer's block trying to finish his "Space Wheat" script, until a beautiful fellow student with a familiar hairstyle teaches him that the best stories are in plain sight.

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  • 1991
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    The Story Lady

    The Story Lady

    6 1991 HD

    When Grace comes to live with her daughter and son-in-law, she is eager to find a way to be useful in the community. She loves to read stories to children, and decides to read one on public access television. The response is so strong that a large company hears about it and offers her a television series. Her life becomes complicated as she is forced to make some serious decisions. Through it all, Grace is able to help a young mother realize that time is the most valuable gift she could give to her daughter.

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  • 1998
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    Painted Angels

    Painted Angels

    5.4 1998 HD

    The story centers on the life of a bordello in a midwestern prairie town in the 1870s. The whorehouse is run by pragmatic madam Annie Ryan and the film follows the life of several of her girls.

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  • 1996
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    A Pig's Tale

    A Pig's Tale

    5.8 1996 HD

    Kids' comedy with all the clichés. Six boys (hero, pudgy, dumb, romeo, etc), reluctantly sent to summer camp, are grouped together in a ramshackle hut, and instantly identified as losers and outcasts by the overconfident camp bullies, who target gorgeous Tiffany (Jakub) as their Lothario's girlfriend. They set out to make everyone's life miserable as they impose their authority on the other kids and ineffective counselors alike. Andy, the good-guy hero, of course has a crush on Tiffany, but hasn't a clue how to approach her. Gradually, the nice guys gain the edge over the bullies, by honest endeavor and standing up for themselves - and in doing so, win over the other kids, even Tiffany. Until the bullies frame them and have them expelled.

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  • 1998
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    Dream House

    Dream House

    3.8 1998 HD

    An inventor moves his family into a prototype smart home in order to work out the kinks and sell the program. But the AI gets the idea that its human inhabitants are standing in the way of its goals and tries to eliminate them.

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  • 1995
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    Picture Perfect

    Picture Perfect

    6.7 1995 HD

    Two teenagers (with single parents) join their families together in order to win the grand prize in a soda company competition by pretending to be the perfect family. The only problem is the CEO of the company must live with them for one week.

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  • 1989
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    The Phone Call

    The Phone Call

    2.333 1989 HD

    A married man calls the wrong number for phone-sex and winds up being stalked by a psychotic man.

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  • 1988
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    Once Upon a Giant

    Once Upon a Giant

    5.2 1988 HD

    Lester and Humphrey are the Royal Jester and Doctor, respectively, in a Kingdom terrorized by a mysterious giant whose presence is known only by his horrible voice and giant shadow. The giant takes the crown jewels which permit the Evil Prince Malokeo to convince the King to let him marry Princess Marigold. Marigold, horrified at the prospect and in love with Prince Daryl, turns to her friends Lester and Humphrey for help.

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  • 1997
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    The Beautician and the Beast

    The Beautician and the Beast

    6.72 1997 HD

    A New York City beautician is mistakenly hired as the school teacher for the children of the president of a small Eastern European country.

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  • 1991
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    The Rape of Doctor Willis

    The Rape of Doctor Willis

    4.5 1991 HD

    A drama directed by Lou Antonio.

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  • 1999
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    A Walk on the Moon

    A Walk on the Moon

    6 1999 HD

    The world of a young housewife is turned upside down when she has an affair with a free-spirited blouse salesman.

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  • 1997
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    On the Edge of Innocence

    On the Edge of Innocence

    5.3 1997 HD

    Teenage Zoe Tyler suffers from manic-depression. With a musician father who is never around life seems hard. Zoe eventually lands up in a psychiatric ward for treatment. There she meets Jake, an unstable teenager with an anger problem. They fall in love and are soon separated by their doctors, psychiatrists and parents. Fuming, Jake suddenly sees a chance for escape and takes Zoe with him, along with a few other patients. After a trip around the country, Jake and Zoe must face up to their illness and their crime.

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  • 1996
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    Bermuda Triangle

    Bermuda Triangle

    4.868 1996 HD

    After a strange storm in the Carribean causes a boat to sink, a family finds itself stranded on an island in the "27th dimension".

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  • 1999
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    Double Frame

    Double Frame

    5 1999 HD

    A shady cop gets in over his head when he frames his partner during a drug scam.

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  • 1995
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    Fight for Justice: The Nancy Conn Story

    Fight for Justice: The Nancy Conn Story

    2 1995 HD

    True life drama about a working mum whose life is put back in jeopardy when the man who was convicted of stalking her and killing her cousin comes up for parole.

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  • 1996
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    Lifeline

    Lifeline

    1 1996 HD

    After her daughter is kidnapped by white slave traders, a mother enlists the aid of a world war 2 vet and a boat captain. Together they hunt down the kidnappers.

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  • 1994
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    A Child's Cry for Help

    A Child's Cry for Help

    7.6 1994 HD

    A recently widowed doctor moves with her daughter to start at a new hospital. While there a loving mother brings her son in for treatment. The doctor suspects that there is something wrong, and theorizes that the mother is deliberately making her son sick so that she could bring him to the hospital for the attention that it gives her. When the doctor decides to restrict the mother's access to her son and is reporting her to child services, the mother in turn decides to sue the doctor and the hospital. And some of the hospital board don't agree with her diagnosis or think that she's over-reacting. And even while the mother's not allowed access to her son, he is still sick, so is the doctor right or wrong?

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  • 1997
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    Newton : A Tale of Two Isaacs

    Newton : A Tale of Two Isaacs

    4 1997 HD

    As Newton devotes himself to the difficult and solitary path of challenging the existing view of the universe and proving his own theories on celestial movement and gravity, his young scribe Humphrey wavers between pursuing science or following his heart.

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  • 1986
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    Christmas Eve

    Christmas Eve

    6.6 1986 HD

    Story of a well-to-do elderly woman, who befriends the homeless and volunteers her time with children, who learns she has an incurable illness and wants desperately to reunite her three grown grand children (who are scattered across the U.S. living their own lives), with their estranged father, her son. She hires a private detective to search for them so as to try to get everyone together on Christmas Eve.

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  • 2015
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    Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire

    Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire

    1 2015 HD

    "A 2015 pilot I made for a BBC webseries, rejected after I got into an argument with the commissioner." - director Charlie Shackleton

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  • 1994
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    Due South

    Due South

    7.6 1994 HD

    Constable Benton Fraser, an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, is attached to the Canadian consulate but works with Chicago Police Department to solve crimes.

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  • 1988
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    War of the Worlds

    War of the Worlds

    6.2 1988 HD

    Humanity must resume its war against the Martians when they revive after decades of hibernation following their defeat in the 1950s. The fate of Earth may very well rest in the hands of a small yet courageous band: astrophysicist Harrison Blackwood, paraplegic computer wizard Norton Drake, microbiologist Suzanne McCullough and military man Paul Ironhorse.

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  • 1985
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    The Twilight Zone

    The Twilight Zone

    7.8 1985 HD

    This 1980s revival of the classic sci-fi series features a similar style to the original anthology series. Each episode tells a tale (sometimes two or three) rooted in horror or suspense, often with a surprising twist at the end. Episodes usually feature elements of drama and comedy.

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  • 1985
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    The Care Bears

    The Care Bears

    6 1985 HD

    The Care Bears live in a faraway place up in the clouds called Care-a-Lot. They travel around the world on Missions in Caring, whilst evil villains such as Professor Coldheart and Lord No Heart, try to thwart their plans.

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  • 1999
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    Jack & Jill

    Jack & Jill

    7.5 1999 HD

    A lighthearted romantic comedy about post-collegiate life, love and career in New York City.

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  • 1987
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    Friday the 13th: The Series

    Friday the 13th: The Series

    7.3 1987 HD

    Micki and Ryan with the help of their friend Jack try to recover cursed antiques so they can store them in safety inside the antique store's vault.

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  • 1987
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    Friday the 13th: The Series

    Friday the 13th: The Series

    7.3 1987 HD

    Micki and Ryan with the help of their friend Jack try to recover cursed antiques so they can store them in safety inside the antique store's vault.

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  • 1984
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    Night Court

    Night Court

    7.281 1984 HD

    An eccentric fun-loving judge presides over an urban night court and all the silliness going on there.

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  • 1999
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    Mentors

    Mentors

    8.7 1999 HD

    A live-action children's television series following 15 year old Oliver Cates and his friend Dee who - using their homemade time machine- zap historical figures into their 21st century lives.

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  • 1985
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    The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    7.191 1985 HD

    The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from 1985 to 1986, and on the USA Network from 1987 to 1989. The series is an updated re-imagining of the classic 1955 series Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

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