On December 19, 2011, she appeared on Rizzoli & Isles as a ballet coach, J.J. She has developed a series for the Oxygen network called Dance Your Ass Off. She made it to the final three but was eliminated in the sixth episode. In early 2008, Walter was in the comedy film Drillbit Taylor, and also starred on the VH1 reality series Celebracadabra, in which celebrities competed to see who was the best magician among them. Later that May she served as a judge on the ABC reality TV show The Next Best Thing, which searched for the best celebrity impersonators in America. In early 2007, Walter had a supporting role as Mabel the bartender in the MyNetworkTV soap opera Watch Over Me. Prior to that, she played Whoopi Goldberg's tarty sidekick Claudine in Eddie (1996). In addition to Bruce Almighty (2003) and Shall We Dance (2004), Walter co-starred in the Disney film The Parent Trap (1998) in the remake of the original classic, she appeared as Chessy, the nanny to Dennis Quaid's character's daughter, who was played by a young Lindsay Lohan. Walter also co-starred in the Bravo series Breaking News and in the NBC sitcom Emeril. Career Īfter five years of standup comedy, Walter starred in her own Fox Network comedy series, My Wildest Dreams (1995), followed by an ABC sitcom, Life's Work (1996–1997), which she both created and starred in. She graduated with a theater degree from Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., in 1983. The family lived in different places following their father's work, and their childhood homes included Germany and the suburbs of Washington, D.C. She and her older sister, Laura, are the children of a geophysicist British father who was born in France of Alsatian descent and a substitute-teacher mother who was born in Sicily. Walter was born on August 3, 1963, in Silver Spring, Maryland. She also created and starred in the 1996–1997 sitcom, Life's Work, and appeared in such films as Bruce Almighty, Shall We Dance, and War of the Worlds. Her other reality television work includes her stint as a judge on ABC's reality television series The Next Best Thing: Who Is the Greatest Celebrity Impersonator?, and as winning a celebrity edition of the game show The Weakest Link. She was formerly the creator and executive producer of Oxygen network reality weight-loss competition series, Dance Your Ass Off. What I had to go through to leave her as an infant was so hard.” She had her own set of twins.Lisa Ann Walter (born August 3, 1963) is an American actress, comedian and television producer, best known for her roles as Chessy in the romantic comedy film The Parent Trap and Melissa Schemmenti on the ABC mockumentary sitcom Abbott Elementary. Or the second I walked in the house I could smell her from her room because we’re mammals. And I would just grab her in the backseat, out of her car seat, and just smell her head. And all I’ve been in my adult life is a mom. But a lot of times I was flying all over the country, or driving in Buffalo, taking the train and then I would get in the car, and she’s this 5-week-old baby. … I would run back to the hotel in between sets and nurse her and then go back into a second show. ![]() … And I was nursing her, but I would pump when I was on the road. I had to go back on the road as a standup. “Three weeks after she was born we moved into my first home in New Jersey. ![]() “We had just bought a house,” she told Us Weekly. Walter’s daughter Della Baum was the inspiration for an emotional scene in The Parent Trap, when Chessy realizes the twins have actually switched. Walter’s firstborn son Jordan Baum was a “baby model.” But what she has shared about her children and family life is pretty darn sweet. And, of course, has been living an actual real life for decades that she has somehow managed to keep private, which feels very on brand for Chessy, and also Melissa. Much like Abbott Elementary co-star Sheryl Lee Ralph, Walter has been in movies and television shows for decades. Walter is perhaps most recognizable to fans as Chessy, housekeeper to Nick Parker (Dennis Quaid) in the 1998 remake of The Parent Trap. So she should have wisdom to spare if ever you meet for a glass of pinot gris on a patio somewhere. So it’s good to know that in real life, Walter is a mom of four adult kids. She’s tough but fair, funny but wise, and just all around the kind of person you want to get cocktails with because you know you’ll never be bored. Fans of Abbott Elementary already know that Lisa Ann Walter is pretty much perfect as world weary-yet-loveable teacher Melissa Schemmenti.
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