Lise Lacasse

Canadian-born Lise Lacasse grew up in Tecumseh, Ontario, and has been acting since she was 18 years old. She studied performing arts at Humber College in Toronto. After working and taking additional acting classes for a couple of years in Los Angeles, she returned home in 1990 and spent three years completing her BFA with Honors in Acting from the University of Windsor, Ontario. From 1994 to 1996, Lacasse performed improv and sketch comedy for The Second City in Detroit. Fluent in French and English, she has garnered countless voiceover and acting jobs for television commercials and videos, including Heinz, Cottonelle, Toyota and the Dreamchasers exhibit at Disney World's Epcot Center. Lacasse has been active for a number of years in live theatre on both sides of the Detroit River, which separates her current home in metro Detroit from her native Canada. Some of her numerous theatre credits include The Secret Garden, The Owl and the Pussycat, Charlotte's Web, Twelfth Night, A Christmas Carol, and Barking Up the Corporate Ladder. She is a mainstay actress in the Detroit-based Magic Carpet Theatre, which brings classic children's literature to life for audiences of all ages. Despite her busy professional-actress life, Lacasse has carved out time for another of her passions: mission work in Kenya and South Africa, for which she has taken seven trips to date. Reflecting on her most recent trip to Kenya's Chemolingot Orphanage in October 2010, she wrote, "We have been chosen by God to come here, leaving a part of ourselves behind, and taking back with us one or more people in our hearts, never to be forgotten." Lise is a veteran actress in theatre, television commercials and voiceover work, now has five feature films to add to her growing list of acting credentials. She played Lila in _Miguel Arteta's Cedar Rapids (2011), which premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. She also worked for Arteta on Youth in Revolt (2009) as a no-nonsense French boarding school matron. Lacasse's other feature films include Trust (2010), Mooz-Lum (2010), and Kill the Irishman (2011).