How Lisa Ann Walter is Surviving the Quarantine | AfterBuzz TV

Published: May 15, 2020, 4:10 a.m.

b'Lisa Ann Walter\\u2019s film career highlights include stand-out performances as Chessy in The Parent Trap with Dennis Quaid and Bobbie in Shall We Dance opposite Richard Gere. Other blockbuster\\nfilms include Bruce Almighty with Jim Carrey and Jennifer Aniston, Steven Spielberg\\u2019s War of the Worlds with Tom Cruise and the Lionsgate action comedy, Killers where she enjoyed stunt-driving\\na Mustang and shooting a glock at Ashton Kutcher. Other Films include Drillbit Taylor with Owen Wilson, Eddie with Whoopi Goldberg and The Trouble With Dee Dee, which garnered her 6 Festival Best Actress Awards. Based on her years as a national touring standup comedy headliner, Walter co-created, produced and starred in several network sitcoms; Fox\\u2019s My Wildest Dreams and ABC\'s Life\'s Work, the highest rated new show on ABC for the season averaging 19 million viewers per week. She is currently Creator/Writer & E.P. of her new half hour single-camera series Bitter. She\\u2019s very proud\\nof co-starring in The More Things Change, an \\u2018Everyday Trans Woman\\u2019 half-hour comedy, where she also served as executive producer \\u2013 debuting at Outfest-2019. She recently directed and\\n\\nstarred in the comedic short, Jersey. Walter was honored to appear on the Netflix special, \\u201cLaugh- In: The Stars Celebrate\\u201d, as Lily Tomlin & cast formed her early love of comedy. She is recurring in the longest running medical drama on TV, \\u201cGrey\\u2019s Anatomy\\u201d and has enjoyed many guest and recurring tv roles over the years including Netflix\\u2019 \\u201cGLOW\\u201d as Betty Gilpin\\u2019s Mother as well as numerous independent feature films. On the other side of the camera: Walter has worked as Creative Executive Producer and show runner on innovative formats with top factual companies 495 Productions, Magical Elves, Esquire TV (formerly HDNET) and Propagate. Her hit dance/weight-loss competition series, Dance Your Ass Off, where she served as creator, Exec. Producer & Head Judge, originally the highest rated premiere for any Oxygen Series, was produced in 15 foreign formats.\\n\\nShe also Executive Produced and wrote the stand up special The Naughty Show as well as co- created, Exec Produced & directed Gonzo Girlz in 2005, a groundbreaking female stunt/comedy webseries which aired on Time Warner, Comcast and Adelphia on-demand networks garnering 6 million unique views per episode and was the #1 show on the Sprint Network. She co-created Tour Dates, which celebrates the world of a female national touring stand-up comedians currently in development at a major cable network.\\nAs an author: Walter\\u2019s comedic memoir, The Best Thing About My Ass Is That It\\u2019s Behind Me (Harper Collins/Harper One) is a comedic look at a chronic self-loather and former \\u201cchubby\\u201d girl trying to make it in the glamorous world of size \\u201c0\\u201d Hollywood was #13 on both Amazon and the New York Times Comedic Essays Bestseller List. Missing her stage performance days, Walter returned to stand-up recently and was featured on \\u201cGotham Comedy Live\\u201d. Missing her Stand-up days, Walter returned to the comedy stage, appearing on Gotham Comedy Live and Produced and producing and starring in Mom-O-Palooza Stand-up Show with Sherri Shepherd and Rosa Blasi which sold old an 400-seat venue in 3 days. But Walter is most proud of being a working mom of four with "One foot on the Red Carpet...The other at Costco" \\u2013 and that her stomach is still reasonably flat after being the clown car they all came out of.\\n\\n\\n--- \\n\\nThis episode is sponsored by \\n\\xb7 Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'