1. Lori Petty was born on October 14,1963 and is an American actress, director, and screenwriter.
24 Facts About Lori Petty
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Lori Petty made her big screen debut appearing in the 1990 comedy film Cadillac Man and later starred in films Point Break, A League of Their Own, Free Willy, In the Army Now, The Glass Shield and played the title role in Tank Girl.
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Lori Petty created and starred in the short-lived Fox sitcom Lush Life in 1996 and acted in number of independent movies in her later career.
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In 2008, Petty wrote and directed independent drama film The Poker House based on her early life during the 1970s.
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Lori Petty, the eldest of three children, was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the daughter of a Pentecostal minister.
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Lori Petty graduated from North High School in Sioux City, Iowa in 1981.
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Lori Petty worked in Omaha, Nebraska as a graphic designer for several years before pursuing acting.
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Lori Petty got her break playing a terrorist named Skunk on the ABC daytime soap opera All My Children in 1985.
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Lori Petty later made guest starring appearances on television series such as The Equalizer, The Twilight Zone, Head of the Class, Miami Vice and Freddy's Nightmares.
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In 1989, Lori Petty co-starred in the made-for-television movie Perry Mason: The Case of the Musical Murder and from 1989 to 1990 was regular cast member in the Fox crime drama, Booker.
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In 1990, Lori Petty made her film debut as Robin Williams's wannabe fashion designer girlfriend in the dark comedy Cadillac Man.
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In 1992, Lori Petty starred in the sports comedy-drama film, A League of Their Own directed by Penny Marshall starring opposite Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, and Madonna.
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Later that year, Lori Petty had supporting role in the romantic drama film Poetic Justice directed by John Singleton.
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Also in 1994, Lori Petty starred in the comedy film In the Army Now.
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In 1995, Lori Petty played the title role in Tank Girl, an adaptation of the British cult comic book of the same name, directed by Rachel Talalay.
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Lori Petty went to star in smaller-scale thriller films Countdown, The Arrangement, Firetrap, and Route 666.
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Lori Petty made guest-starring appearances in a number of television series, include Profiler, Star Trek: Voyager, ER and NYPD Blue.
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Lori Petty starred in a series of television commercials created by Merkley Newman Harty's Steve Bowen for the National Thoroughbred Racing Association's "Go, Baby, Go" advertising campaign in 1998.
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Lori Petty provided the voice of the supervillain Livewire on the Warner Bros.
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Lori Petty had the recurring role as Janice Burke, a woman with Huntington's disease, in the Fox series, House from 2008 to 2009, and the following year played the role of "Daddy", an alpha female inmate, in Prison Break and its spin-off movie, Prison Break: The Final Break.
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In 2014, Lori Petty was cast as Lolly Whitehill, an inmate with an interest in conspiracy theories in the Netflix comedy-drama series, Orange Is the New Black.
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Lori Petty was a guest star in the second season, and a recurring character in the third, fourth and seventh seasons appearing total in 24 episodes.
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Lori Petty made guest-starring appearances on Gotham, Hawaii Five-0 and Swedish Dicks.
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Lori Petty appeared in horror films Dead Awake, A Deadly Legend and You're All Gonna Die.