• Name: Elisa Donovan
  
• Birth Name: Lisa Donovan
  
• Height: 5' 6"
  
• Sex: F
  
• Nationality: American
  
• Birth Date: February 3, 1974
  
• Birth Place: Poughkeepsie, New York, USA
  
• Profession: actress
  
• Education: Eugene Lang College-New School for Social Research in New York, New York (studied Literature and Acting)
  
•   : Michael Chekhov Studio in New York, New York
  
• Father: Jack Donovan (former vice president of AT&T)
  
• Mother: Charlotte Donovan
  
• Sister: animal groomer
  
• Brother: equestrian
  

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• Uncle: Warren Hino, actor; deceased
• Spokesperson for Enviro-thon, a national youth competition that promotes enviromental awareness and action
• Eye Color: green
• Hair color: Auburn - otherwise known as red
• Pet: Rodesian Ridgeback, named Zulie (a dog)
• Favorite food: Sushi - actually Sashimi because she doesn't like the rice.
• Favorite books: John Irving's A Prayer For Owen Meany, Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, Dickens' Great Expectations, Cervantes' Don Quixote, James Baldwin's If Beale Street Could Talk
• Movies that moved and/or inspired Elisa: Dead Man Walking, American History X, What Dreams May Come
• Favorite musicians: Prince, Laurlyn Hill, Olive, A Tribe Called Quest, John Coltrane, Paco de Lucia, Hole
• Favorite animals: Her Dog and Panthers
• Favorite movies of all time: It's a Wonderful Life, Betty Blue, Dead Man Walking, Goodfellows, Cinema Paradiso and Shawshank Redemption
• Favorite actresses/actors: Susan Sarandon, Jimmy Stewart, Gary Oldman, Edward Norton, Sean Penn, Meryl Streep
• Has been in quite a few plays - two of them being Mad Love and Safe.
• During her senior year of high school she was in Amnesty International and Honors Art.
• Was in her very first play when she was 7 by the name of Westward Ho Ho Ho. She played a male lead.
• Has a LOT of shoes.
• Is involved in her community - APLA and Lifebeat. (AIDs related charities) address for Lifebeat: ( 810 7th Avenue-4th Floor, NewYork, NY 10089 )
• Does the National Enviro-Thon.
• Loves to read.
• Was a waitress in New York
• Believes in ghosts.
• Is a recovering anorexic. In high school she was very thin, but she claims that she wasn't into it hardcore until 1993. But she was always skinny! It never looked like she had anything to worry about.
• Was on MTV's Loveline.
• Was a cheerleader in junior high up until her sophmore year of high school.
• Favorite color: green
• Attended a Bauhaus concert on July 11th, 1998.
• Appeared in the video for I Drive Myself Crazy by 'NSYNC as Joey Fatone's girlfriend.

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