Lisa Niemi

Lisa Niemi is one of those figures who spent years quietly building a serious career — dancer, choreographer, screenwriter, actress — while the world mostly filed her under "Patrick Swayze's wife," which is both understandable and a little unfair. She trained hard, co-wrote and starred in Steel Dawn alongside Patrick, and brought genuine craft to everything she touched. Her 2011 Royal Order of Francis I is a reminder that her work was recognized beyond the Hollywood bubble. After Patrick's death in 2009 she wrote a deeply personal memoir about their relationship and his final year, and it read as the work of someone with real literary instincts, not just a celebrity cashing in on grief.

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Name (English)

Lisa Niemi

Name (Japanese)

リサ・ニエミ

Reading

りさ・にえみ

Born

May 26, 1956 (age 70)

Origin

Houston, Texas, United States

Occupation

choreographer / dancer / screenwriter / film actor / television actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Monkey

Awards & achievements

• 2011 Royal Order of Francis I

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa%20Niemi
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B5%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8B%E3%82%A8%E3%83%9F
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q271608

Tags

• Texas
• choreographer
• dancer
• screenwriter

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.