Lisa Wilcox

To me, Lisa Wilcox will always be the heart of the later Nightmare on Elm Street films, carrying Alice through two box-office hits with a vulnerability that grounded all the surreal horror. What I find compelling is her path before acting: modeling and design, then UCLA, suggesting a creative mind that approached performance from several angles. Genre actors are too often dismissed, but anchoring a horror franchise demands real craft, and she delivered. I respect performers who make the impossible feel emotionally true, and decades on she remains a name fans speak about with genuine affection. That endurance says plenty.

Name (English)

Lisa Wilcox

Name (Japanese)

リサ・ウィルコックス

Reading

りさ・うぃるこっくす

Born

April 27, 1964 (age 62)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Dragon

Origin

Columbia, Missouri, United States

Occupation

actor / television actor / film actor

University

University of California, Los Angeles

• Official sitehttps://www.lisawilcox.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa%20Wilcox
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436761

Tags

• Missouri
• actor
• television actor
• film actor

Last updated

2026-06-21

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.