Lisa Eilbacher

Biography

Lisa Marie Eilbacher (born May 5, 1956) is an American retired actress. She is best known for her roles as Jenny Summers - Axel Foley's friend in Beverly Hills Cop and as Casey Seeger, the cadet who couldn't make it over the wall on the obstacle course in An Officer and a Gentleman (1982). She said the hardest part of playing that role was pretending she was out of shape, because she was an avid body builder.

She spent her most formative years in Paris then moved to Beverly Hills, California with her family, when she was seven. In true Hollywood fashion, she was spotted by a talent agent while out walking with her mother. It wasn't long before the little girl who spoke French began perfecting her English in television commercials and on such TV westerns as Wagon Train (1957), Gunsmoke (1955), Laredo (1965) and Bonanza (1959).

Among her credits as a teenager and after graduating from high school, she starred in The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (1977), and, since those early days, has had prominent parts in countless series and television films including Deadly Intentions (1985), The Ordeal of Patty Hearst (1979), The War Between Men and Women (1972), a motion picture starring Jack Lemmon and Barbara Harris, Love for Rent (1979), To Race the Wind (1980) and This House Possessed (1981).

Her roles in miniseries include The Winds of War (1983) opposite Robert Mitchum and Monte Carlo (1986) with Malcolm McDowell. She auditioned for the role of Princess Leia in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977).

Known For

Live Wire 1992 ★ 5.2
Leviathan 1989 ★ 6.0
Midnight Caller 1988 ★ 7.6
Monte Carlo 1986 ★ 6.7
The Twilight Zone 1985 ★ 7.7
Beverly Hills Cop 1984 ★ 7.2
The Winds of War 1983 ★ 7.3
10 to Midnight 1983 ★ 6.2
Ryan's Four 1983
An Officer and a Gentleman 1982 ★ 7.0
Simon & Simon 1981 ★ 6.7
Wheels 1978 ★ 6.7
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries 1977 ★ 7.1
Man from Atlantis 1977 ★ 6.4
Logan's Run 1977 ★ 6.8
Spider-Man 1977 ★ 6.3
Battle of the Network Stars 1976 ★ 6.4
The Waltons 1972 ★ 7.2
The Streets of San Francisco 1972 ★ 7.0
Alias Smith and Jones 1971 ★ 7.0
The Brady Bunch 1969 ★ 6.7
Hawaii Five-O 1968 ★ 7.2
My Three Sons 1960 ★ 6.6
Gunsmoke 1955 ★ 6.7