Lisa Adaline Donovan
February 3, 1971 (1971-02-03) (age 37)
Poughkeepsie, New York, U.S.
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Actress
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Elisa Donovan (born Lisa Adaline Donovan; February 3, 1971) is an American actress.
Donovan was born in Poughkeepsie, NY, the daughter of Charlotte and Jack Donovan, who was a business executive. She grew up on Long Island where she was an accomplished gymnast, dancer and equestrian. She began studying acting at the age of 12. She attended Eugene Lang College The New School For Liberal Arts in New York City, where she studied writing and literature, acting and dramatic literature.
Donovan's breakthrough role was in the film Clueless. Other notable roles included the film A Night at the Roxbury and playing Morgan Cavanaugh on the television sitcom Sabrina, the Teenage Witch.
She admitted to being a "hard-core anorexic" between 1993 and 1995 and her weight dropped to 90 pounds. She contributed a story to the book Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul regarding her battles with anorexia. She began to turn her life around when her eating disorder caused her to have a mild heart attack.
