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Lisa Marie Eilbacher (born May 5, 1956) is a retired American actress. She is best known for her role as Jeanette Summers in the Beverly Hills Cop film in 1984.

She is married to director and photographer Bradford May since 1988.

Early life

Lisa Marie Eilbacher was born in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, the daughter of an American oil company executive. She was raised in France.

Her two siblings are also actors: sister Cindy Eilbacher and brother Bobby Eilbacher.

Career

Child actress and tv roles

Eilbacher started acting as a child, appearing on such shows as My Three Sons and Gunsmoke. She later made a transition into adult roles on such shows as The Amazing Spider-Man.

Eilbacher starred as Callie Shaw in The Hardy Boys Mysteries in 1977. The same year she appeared in the episode "The Innocent" of the short-lived Logan's Run TV series. She also guest starred on the TV series Man from Atlantis in an episode where she played Shakespeare's Juliet. She also appeared in the 1974 television movie Bad Ronald.

Subsequent roles and films

In 1981, she starred in the television film This House Possessed with Parker Stevenson, with whom she worked on The Hardy Boys Mysteries.

That year she acted in Lee Philips's film On the Right Track starring television star Gary Coleman. Some reviews concluded that it was sappy and capitalizing on Coleman's TV following, many found the film charming, well written, and well acted. Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times, felt she stood out by saying it "is Coleman's picture, but its unexpected pleasure is Eilbacher".

Eilbacher is best known for her roles in two 1980s films: An Officer and a Gentleman and Beverly Hills Cop. In An Officer and a Gentleman, she played Naval Aviation Officer Candidate Casey Seeger, a popular and charming woman who nearly flunked out of the program due to her inability to complete the obstacle course; however, she persevered and graduated. An amateur bodybuilder in real life, Eilbacher said the hardest aspect of this role was "pretending" to be out of shape. In Beverly Hills Cop, she played Jenny Summers, a childhood friend of Eddie Murphy's character who reunited with him to solve the murder of a mutual friend.

Eilbacher was also featured in the 1983 miniseries The Winds of War, playing Madeleine Henry.

In 1985, she co-starred with Holland Taylor in the ABC detective series Me and Mom.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

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9. Smith, Patrice (April 15, 1981). "Pace puts 'Track' on right one". The Evansville Courier. p. 21.
10. Labonté, Richard (11 July 1981). Young TV Favorite Stars in Real Movie, Ottawa Citizen
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External links

• Lisa Eilbacher at IMDb
• Lisa Eilbacher at TV Guide
• Lisa Eilbacher at AllMovie
• Lisa Eilbacher at Rotten Tomatoes

• 1956 births
• 20th-century American actresses
• American child actresses
• American expatriates in France
• American expatriates in Saudi Arabia
• American film actresses
• American television actresses
• Living people
• People from Dhahran
• 21st-century American women