Lisa Banes

Lisa Banes (born July 9, 1955) is an American actress. She was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play in 1984 for "Isn't it Romantic?" and won a 1981 Theatre World Award for her performance as Alison Porter Off-Broadway in "Look Back in Anger". In film, she has appeared in "Cocktail" (1988), "Freedom Writers" (2007), "Gone Girl" (2014), and as Hollis in "A Cure for Wellness" (2016).
Early life.
Banes was born in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. She studied acting at the Juilliard School in New York City.
Career.
Stage.
She has appeared on Broadway several times. She played Cassie in the Neil Simon play "Rumors" in 1988 with Christine Baranski, Margaret Lord in the musical "High Society" with Anna Kendrick in 1998, was in "Accent on Youth" with David Hyde Pierce in 2009, and most recently in the 2010 revival of "Present Laughter" with Victor Garber.
Television and film.
On television, Banes had a regular roles as Doreen Morrison in "The Trials of Rosie O'Neill" starring Sharon Gless, and as Mayor Anita Massengil on the Fox comedy series "Son of the Beach" (2000-01). She also had recurring roles on "The King of Queens" as Carrie's boss Georgia Boone, "Six Feet Under" as Victoria, on "One Life to Live" as Eve McBain, and on "Nashville" Season 6 as the Ranch Director. She also guest starred as a Trill doctor in the ' episode "Equilibrium". Banes played Anne Kane in the 1985 TV miniseries "Kane & Abel". Her other television credits include "China Beach", "Murder, She Wrote", "The Practice", "NYPD Blue", "Desperate Housewives", ', "The Good Wife", "NCIS", and "Once Upon a Time". From 2010 to 2016, she had a recurring role as Ellen Collins on "Royal Pains".
Banes also starred as Mrs. Berry in "The Hotel New Hampshire" (1984), Bonnie in "Cocktail" (1988), Flora in "Dragonfly" (2002), and Christina Ricci's mother in "Pumpkin" (2002). In 2014, she appeared in David Fincher's "Gone Girl" as Marybeth Elliott, mother of Amy Elliott (Rosamund Pike).