Name: Lisa Erin Goldstein

Date of birth: July 30th, 1981

Hometown: Hingham, Massachussetts

Age: 29

Hair: Brown

Eyes: Green

Height: 5’4

Likes: Baking, biking, boring people, downhill skiing, horseback riding, knitting, making people laugh, movies, pilates, reading, spending time with her close friends, swimming, yoga, zoos

Dislikes: Heat, jumping from airplanes, mullets, nudity, rides that spin, sports, sweating when she shouldn’t be, wildlife

Favorite books: Cider House Rules, Da Vinci Code, Harry Potters, Matilda, Memoirs of a Geisha, My Sister’s Keeper, The Poisonwood Bible, The Secret Life of Bees

Favorite movies: Amelie, Braveheart, Drop Dead Gorgeous, French Kiss, Love Actually, Old School, Singin’ in the Rain, Tommy Boy, When Harry Met Sally

Favorite music: Ben Folds Five, Billy Joel, Coldplay, Damien Rice, Frank Sinatra, Guster, Jason Mraz, Flaming Lips, Ray Lamontagne, Rufus Wainwright

Favorite tv shows: Absolutely Fabulous (Ab Fab), Friends, Lost, Sex and the City, That 70′s show, Will and Grace

Voice: Soprano/Belt

In her own words:
- “I’m pretty low maintenance. It really doesn’t take a lot to make me happy. Give me a good Drop Dead Gorgeous reference and I’ll be your best friend.”

Affiliations: SAG, AEA

Quick facts:

• Lisa was born on Long Island, NY and lived in London, England until the age of 4. She also lived in Pennsylvania as a child and then Massachusetts, North Carolina, California, New York and Florida where she worked and went to school.
• She graduated from Hingham High School (Hingham, Massachusetts) in 1999.
• In Damn Yankees, Lisa was dance captain and “getting all those baseball players in check”.
• In November 2005, she was offered a freelance contract from Exxcel Model and Talent where they submitted her mostly for commercials.
• In early 2006, Lisa was taught by Terry Schreiber in his advanced acting classes at Terry Schreiber Studios.
• In July 2007, Lisa was booked as Millicent (One Tree Hill) after sending an audition tape because she was in Florida working on other projects. Her role of Millicent was only supposed to be for the first episode of season 5 but they loved her so much, they made her come back as recurring and in season 6, she became a regular.
• During her first months of playing Millicent on OTH, Lisa was going back and forth as “Nemo” and “Squirt” (Finding Nemo – The Musical) in Orlando to “Millicent” in Wilmington, NC.

Studies:
- BFA in music theatre at Elon University (1999 – 2003, North Carolina) (GPA 3.7)
- Internship: B Street Theatre (Sacramento, CA, 2003 – 2004)
- Acting, camera technique, vocal training, linklater, dance

Achievements:
- Former member and co-founder of “Sweet Signatures”, Elon University’s all female a cappella group. Founded in 2000 by 4 girls, with 16 members.

Special skills:
- Singing (F below middle C, to A below high C)
- Dance (Tap, jazz, modern, ballet)
- Partnering (Waltz, polka, swing, lifts)
- Dialects (American Southern, American Midwest, International Phonetics Alphabet, Irish)
- Basic piano skills
- Sight-singing

Lee Norris (Co-star, One Tree Hill)
“Lisa is so awesome and we have the best time working together. We both went to school in North Carolina and we have a lot of similar interests, so it’s very easy chemistry with her.”

Jared Bradshaw (Friend and former co-star, Smokey Joe’s Cafe)
“Lisa is an absolute joy. As a friend, to work with – as an all around person. Her success is due to her kindness to others and of course her talent. She’s not so bad to look at either, I guess. I give her 5 stars (out of 5).”

Mekia Cox (Former co-star, Smokey Joe’s Cafe)
“Such a sweetheart Lisa is. Really enjoyed working with her. And she made me a necklace years ago that I occasionally still wear today!”

Karla Ticas (Photographer)
“Lisa was such a sweetheart to shoot, I loved working with her!”

Mike Skiles (Texas Family Musicals, Inc)
“Tell that ole Lisa to give us a call sometime… I would love to catch up… She was one of my favorites… We’ve had a bunch of Elon people since her time and none of them topped Little Ole Lisa Goldstein.”

Kelsey Chow (Co-star, One Tree hill)
“[...] it was really fun working with Lisa [...] That was the first time I had worked with Lisa, who is just one of the sweetest people I have ever met. [...] (About Lisa being Belle in Beauty and the Beast) I was actually talking to her about that and I was like ‘Oh my God, I can’t believe that!’ [...] We were talking about that, but yeah I thought that was amazing. She has a beautiful voice; I heard her singing around set and on the make-up trailer. I thought it was really cool she had that extra talent.”

Marie (Fan and owner of LisaErinGoldstein.Com)
“The night I met Lisa was the best night of my life. She is the sweetest girl I’ve ever met. She’s so kind and so pretty! Meeting her just confirmed all the reasons why I run this site. I’ll never forget November 5th, 2009, the night I met Lisa Goldstein.”

Derek (Fan)
“The first time I saw Lisa in person was when I worked as an extra in 5.04. I was waiting to be told what to do when I looked at Lisa (she was having her hair done) and she looked right at me… in my eyes. With that, she gave me probably one of the biggest smiles I’ve ever seen in my 27 years of living! . The second time I saw Lisa was at the charity game. When I got her autograph, she said hi and asked me how I was… Only after I asked her the same thing. She’s very sweet and down-to-earth. She’s pretty, too!”

BLNHJPisTLA (Fan)
(Met during filming of OTH season 6) “She is such a sweetheart and it was amazing getting to meet her.”

Tonya (Fan)
(At 5th annual James Lafferty Charity Basketball Game) “I was number 1054 in line for autographs and you know they’re exhausted and you’re exhausted and I was surprised to see a few still smiling, and one was Lisa. She was just really sweet and full of smiles.”

leytonlove333 (Fan)
(At 5th annual James Lafferty Charity Basketball Game) “When I walked up to her, she said hi with a big smile and I gave her my thing to sign and she flipped it over wondering what was on the front of it and I told her she can sign that side if she would like and she goes: “oh hun its ok I just wanted to see what was on the other side,” and smiled. She is a friendly person and smiles all the time!”

Philipe (Fan)
(Met during filming of OTH season 7) “Last October, I spent a holiday in the US, in Washington DC and North Carolina and spent some days in the Riverside Hilton, Wilmington, where I had the pleasure to meet Lisa. She was so nice and sweet, talked with us (I and a friend of mine) although she was in the middle of a shooting and let us have some pics with her. She is so beautiful… The only regret: not daring to ask for a cookie she had made and brought for the crew!!! [...] I love your website and think it is lovely to celebrate such a sweet and beautiful woman. [...] I did not know Lisa was a singer and had acted in musicals; would love to see her in a musical one day. The musicals world is so fascinating and it would be great to see Lisa triumph in Broadway!”