Lisa Nicole Carson

Lisa Nicole Carson

Born: July 12, 1969
in New York City, New York, USA
Carson was born in Brooklyn, New York; her father is a journalism professor at the University of Florida, and her mother was a kindergarten teacher in New York. She spent her adolescence in Gainesville, Florida and attended F. W. Buchholz High School. Her parents separated when she was 14, and her mother moved back to New York alone. In 1986, she entered the Regional competition sponsored by the "America's Junior Miss" talent show, taking second place for the region held in Gainesville. After graduating in 1987, Carson returned to New York and decided that she wanted to be an actor. She began her career by appearing in a number of After School Specials and HBO short films.

Carson appeared in productions at the famed Negro Ensemble Company. Her first notable credit came in 1991, when she appeared in Law & Order and in 1992 she had a non-speaking, minor role in the comedy series, The Cosby Show. She was a regular on The Apollo Comedy Hour before appearing in film in Let's Get Bizzee (1993), Jason's Lyric (1994) and Devil in a Blue Dress (1995). She has appeared in Love Jones. She also performed as an R&B singer in the 1995 television movie Divas. She had a role in the (1997) movie Eve's Bayou, as Mattie Monroe.

On television, she played the recurring character Carla Reece, the on/off girlfriend of Eriq La Salle's Dr Peter Benton in NBC's ER between 1996 and 2001. Between 1997 and 2002 she played prosecutor Renee Raddick in Fox's Ally McBeal, a role for which she received multiple award nominations. Carson was fired from both roles, amid reports about her erratic behavior on and off set, alleged drug use, being arrested and admissions to a mental health facility. In 2012, she was featured in a guest appearance in the second-season finale of the canceled NBC series Harry's Law reprising her character Renee Raddick from Ally McBeal.

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Movies for Lisa Nicole Carson...

Title: Aftershock: Earthquake in New York
Character: Evie Lincoln
Released: November 14, 1999
Type: TV
Without warning, an earthquake rips through the "City That Never Sleeps," turning it into a vulnerable state of chaos: skyscrapers topple, subways are buried in the rubble, countless lives are lost and loved ones are torn apart. As turmoil reigns in the screaming streets, Mayor Bruce Lincoln and former Fire Chief Thomas Ahearn race against time to enact a city-wide emergency plan.
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Life
Title: Life
Character: Sylvia
Released: April 16, 1999
Type: Movie
Two men in 1930s Mississippi become friends after being sentenced to life in prison together for a crime they did not commit.
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Title: Damon
Character: Lt. Byrne (uncredited)
Released: March 22, 1998
Type: TV
Two brothers, one a bachelor and undercover detective, the other a married rent-a-cop are reunited in Chicago. Things come easily to Damon Thomas, a clever, but incorrect undercover cop.
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Eve's Bayou
Title: Eve's Bayou
Character: Matty Mereaux
Released: November 7, 1997
Type: Movie
Summer heats up in rural Louisiana beside Eve’s Bayou, 1962, as the Batiste family tries to survive the secrets they’ve kept and the betrayals they’ve endured.
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Title: Ally McBeal
Character: Renée Raddick
Released: September 8, 1997
Type: TV
Ally McBeal is a young lawyer working at the Boston law firm Cage and Fish. Ally's lives and loves are eccentric, humorous, dramatic with an incredibly overactive imagination that's working overtime!
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White Lies
Title: White Lies
Character: Glinda
Released: April 1, 1997
Type: Movie
A museum worker pretends to be an artist in order to impress women. When an attractive assistant director of a SoHo art gallery overhears him, she offers to exhibit his work. He plays along, which leads to a series of complications following his newfound double life. He starts falling in love with the assistant director, but her art critic fiancé grows suspicious.
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Love Jones
Title: Love Jones
Character: Josie Nichols
Released: March 14, 1997
Type: Movie
Darius Lovehall is a young black poet in Chicago who starts dating Nina Moseley, a beautiful and talented photographer. While trying to figure out if they've got a "love thing" or are just "kicking it," they hang out with their friends, talking about love and sex. Then Nina tests the strength of Darius' feelings and sets a chain of romantic complications into motion.
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Title: The Chris Rock Show
Released: February 7, 1997
Type: TV
The Chris Rock Show is a late night comedy talk show featured on HBO. It was created by Chris Rock and featured various guests. The show won an Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Variety or Music Program in 1999. It ran for five seasons from 1997 to 2000.
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Title: Cosby
Released: September 16, 1996
Type: TV
Cosby is an American situation comedy television series broadcast on CBS from September 16, 1996 to April 28, 2000, loosely based on the British sitcom One Foot in the Grave. The program stars Bill Cosby and Phylicia Rashād, who previously worked with Cosby in the 1984–1992 NBC sitcom The Cosby Show. Madeline Kahn portrayed their neighbor, Pauline, until her death in 1999.
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Devil in a Blue Dress
Title: Devil in a Blue Dress
Character: Coretta James
Released: September 29, 1995
Type: Movie
In late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an unemployed black World War II veteran with few job prospects. At a bar, Easy meets DeWitt Albright, a mysterious white man looking for someone to investigate the disappearance of a missing white woman named Daphne Monet, who he suspects is hiding out in one of the city's black jazz clubs. Strapped for money and facing house payments, Easy takes the job, but soon finds himself in over his head.
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Divas
Title: Divas
Character: Jewel
Released: September 19, 1995
Type: Movie
This pilot for a prospective series is an ensemble drama chronicling the ups and downs of a young, all-female, black singing group from Seattle.
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Jason's Lyric
Title: Jason's Lyric
Character: Marti
Released: September 28, 1994
Type: Movie
The story of a young man who must confront his own fears about love as well as his relationships with family and friends.
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Title: ER
Character: Carla Simmons
Released: September 19, 1994
Type: TV
ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.
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Title: ER
Character: Carla Reece
Released: September 19, 1994
Type: TV
ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.
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Let's Get Bizzee
Title: Let's Get Bizzee
Character: Cheryl
Released: February 26, 1993
Type: Movie
High school student Sam decides to run for office when a corrupt politician threatens to close down the housing project where his mother lives.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Jasmine
Released: September 13, 1990
Type: TV
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.