Anne Carlisle

Acting

Anne Carlisle

Born 1956-01-01 · United States

Anne Carlisle (born 1956) is an American artist, actress, performance artist, acting teacher, author, and model. She is known for co-writing and playing both the lead female and male counterpart roles in the film Liquid Sky. She also played a minor role of Victoria in the 1985 Susan Seidelman film Desperately Seeking Susan, the cross dresser prostitute Gwendoline in Crocodile Dundee and starred in an episode of TV series Miami Vice. Carlisle also adapted and wrote a novel version of her cult, new wave film Liquid Sky. Carlisle posed for Playboy in 1984. In 2014 in an interview with The Awl it was confirmed by Liquid Sky director Slava Tsukerman, a sequel, Liquid Sky 2, was in the works. Anne Carlisle would be returning in the sequel in the role of Margaret. As of 2020, however, the script had still not been completed.

Acting credits

Crocodile Dundee poster
6.4

When a New York reporter plucks crocodile hunter Mick Dundee from the Australian Outback for a visit to the Big Apple, it's a clash of cultures and a recipe for good-natured comedy as naïve Dundee negotiates the concrete jungle. He proves that his instincts are quite useful in the city and adeptly handles everything from wily muggers to high-society snoots without breaking a sweat.

Crocodile Dundee

1986

Desperately Seeking Susan poster
6.1

A bored New Jersey suburban housewife's fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in the personal columns leads to her being mistaken for the woman herself and into a chaotic adventure of amnesia and self-discovery.

Desperately Seeking Susan

1985

Liquid Sky poster
5.8

An alien creature invades New York's punk subculture in its search for an opiate released by the brain during an orgasm.

Liquid Sky

1982

The Suicide Club poster
7.0

A woman traumatized by her brother's suicide is inducted into a world of games involving murder.

The Suicide Club

1988

Perfect Strangers poster
4.9

A hitman tries to seduce the mother of a child who witnessed his most recent kill.

Perfect Strangers

1984

Bum Rap poster
4.3

Paul Colson is a New York cabdriver and struggling actor. When he learns that he has about three days left to live due to a rare blood disorder, he goes through all five stages of loss and grief in a darkly comedic way.

Bum Rap

1988

High Score poster
7.0

A man obsessed with video games becomes increasingly confused between the game and reality. When he causes a fatal accident and flees, a policeman, who is no less infatuated with his electronic surveillance system, follows in his footsteps. Both fall in love with the same woman, without knowing whether she actually exists, and become embroiled in a deadly duel as a result of their addiction.

High Score

1990

Liquid Sky Revisited poster
NR

Retrospective documentary on the making of the low-budget sci-fi cult classic Liquid Sky (1982).

Liquid Sky Revisited

2017

Behind the camera