Lisa Coleman (actress)

Lisa Jacqueline Coleman (born 10 July 1970) is an English actress. She is best known for her television roles as Jude Korcanik in Casualty (1994–1997) and Cam Lawson in The Story of Tracy Beaker (2002–2005). She later reprised the role of Cam Lawson in Tracy Beaker Returns (2010–2012), My Mum Tracy Beaker (2021), and The Beaker Girls (2021–2023).^[1]

Lisa Coleman
Born	Lisa Jacqueline Coleman (1970-07-10) 10 July 1970 (age 55) Hammersmith, London, England
Occupations	Actress therapist
Years active	1977–present
Parent(s)	Francis Coleman Ann Beach
Relatives	Charlotte Coleman (sister)

Early life

Lisa Coleman was born in Hammersmith, London, on 10 July 1970.^[2][3] She is the younger daughter of actress Ann Beach and television producer Francis Coleman, and the sister of actress Charlotte Coleman.^[2] Coleman attended the Anna Scher Theatre School from the age of six before completing her secondary education and A-levels.^[4]

She made her first television appearance as a child actress in a 1977 episode of Crown Court at the age of six.^[4][5][6] Her first film role was a minor appearance in the 1981 film Loophole.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Coleman appeared in single episodes of the BBC television drama series Casualty and EastEnders in 1990.^[7] By the mid-1990s, she had begun a Bachelor's degree in Psychology with the UK Open University.^[8]

In 1993, she started modelling for Euan Uglow's painting Articulation, posing nude.^[9][10] It was her first experience as a model.^[11][12] Coleman recalled travelling to Uglow's studio one to three times a week^[13] and described how, despite initially feeling "prudish",^[14] she later felt relaxed during the sessions, found them "liberating", and came to regard Uglow as a friend.^[13]

She began a three-year run on Casualty in September 1994, portraying staff nurse Jude Korcanik. Coleman left the series in February 1997, when her character moved to Crete.^[15]

Her radio work includes the six-part BBC series Old Dog and Partridge (1999).^[16]

After studying for more than a decade, she graduated from the Open University in June 2005.^[8] In a subsequent interview for the Open University's alumni magazine Sesame, she expressed a desire to continue working with the National Health Service and a long-term ambition to earn a Master of Arts degree.^[8]

Coleman has also volunteered as an occupational therapist in a psychiatric unit.^[17]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1981	Loophole	Daniel's Daughter
1991	The Hottest Day of the Year	Maja
1996	Vol-au-vent	Christine

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1977	Crown Court	Leonie Klein	Episodes: "Down Will Come Baby" (parts 1-3)	[18][5]
1980	Play for Today	Zoe Clements	Episode: "A Walk in the Forest"	[18]
1981	BBC2 Playhouse	Jennifer	Episode: "Elizabeth Alone" (parts 1-3)	[18]
1985	Travellers by Night	Belle	TV mini-series	[18]
1990	London's Burning	Nurse	Series 3, episode 6	[18]
	Casualty	Sharon Dobbs	Episode: "Salvation"	[citation needed]
1991	Screenplay	Jesse Dealing	Episode: "Redemption"	[citation needed]
1992	A Fatal Inversion	Office Girl	Series 1, episode 3	[citation needed]
	Absolutely Fabulous	Joanna	Episode: "ISO Tank"	[19]
1993	Press Gang	Phillipa Prescott	Episode: "Food, Love and Insecurity"	[18]
	The Chief	Jo	Series 3, episode 5	[citation needed]
	Scarlet and Black	Elisa	Series 1, episode 1	[18]
	The Bill		Episode: "Shock to the System"	[18]
1993, 1996	French and Saunders	Shirley	2 episodes	[citation needed]
1994	Scene	Veronica	Episode: "SAB"	[citation needed]
1994–1997	Casualty	Jude Korcanik	Series regular, 70 episodes	[18]
1995	Bottom	Doreen Hedgehog	Episode: "Terror"	[18]
1997	Attractions	Presenter	Visits a monkey sanctuary	[20]
1997	The Scoop	Presenter		[21]
1998	Undercover Heart	Sarah May		[18]
2000	Peak Practice	Sharon Willett	Episodes: "Ghosts", "A Test of Faith"	[18]
	The Bill	Gayle Tyler	Episode: "Catch a Falling Star"	[18]
2001	McCready and Daughter	Andie Bennett	Episode: "No Bed of Roses"	[citation needed]
2002–2005	The Story of Tracy Beaker	Cam Lawson	Series regular, 52 episodes	[citation needed]
2003	EastEnders: Perfectly Frank	Teri Phillips	EastEnders spin-off film	[22]
2004	Tracy Beaker's Movie of Me	Cam Lawson	Television film	[18]
2012	Tracy Beaker Returns			[18]
2011	Hollyoaks	Morag	Guest role, 4 episodes	[citation needed]
2021	My Mum Tracy Beaker	Cam Lawson	Series regular	[citation needed]
2021–2023	The Beaker Girls		Series regular	[citation needed]
2025	Call the Midwife	Miss Jenkins	Series 14, Episode 3

Radio

• Lisa in Afternoon Theatre: A Home of Our Own (1980, BBC Radio 4)
• Emily in No Commitments
• Nicola in Old Dog and Partridge
• Eli in Ed Reardon's Week