Lisa Cerasoli

{{short description|American actress|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Multiple issues| {{BLP one source|date=June 2017}} {{COI|date=June 2017}} {{Notability|Bio|date=June 2017}} }} {{Infobox person | name = Lisa Cerasoli | image = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1969|01|27}} | birth_place = Iron Mountain, Michigan, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | known_for = {{hlist|General Hospital|Port Charles}} | occupation = {{hlist|Actress|author}} | spouse = {{Marriage|Peter Weaver|2003|2013}} | children = 1 }}

'''Lisa Cerasoli''' (born January 27, 1969, in Iron Mountain, Michigan)<ref name="Catching up with...">"Catching up with...Lisa Cerasoli". ''Soap Opera Digest'' (June 10, 2013), pg. 77.</ref> is an American actress. She is known for her role as Venus (V) Ardonowski on ''General Hospital''.

==Personal life== Cerasoli moved back to Michigan from Los Angeles in 2003 to care for her father, Richard, until his death in July. Two months later, in September 2003, she wed Peter Weaver. They had a daughter, Jazzlyn "Jazz" Jo, in 2005. In 2008, Lisa's grandmother, Nora Jo, came to live with them until her death in 2010 from Alzheimer's disease. In 2013, Lisa revealed that her marriage had ended.<ref name="Catching up with..."/>

==Career== {{BLP sources section|date=June 2017}} Cerasoli portrayed the character of Venus Ardanowski on ''General Hospital'' and ''Port Charles'' from 1997 to 1999. She also made appearances on ''Diagnosis Murder'', ''Pensacola: Wings of Gold'', ''Oh, Grow Up'', a couple of episodes of ''The Pretender'' as Zoe, and ''Boomtown''.

In 2009 she published her first book, [https://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/lisa-cerasoli ''On the Brink of Bliss and Insanity''], which won five national awards. In 2010 she published the memoir, ''As Nora Jo Fades Away: Confessions of a Caregiver''. The book was optioned by RicheProductions in 2011. They optioned it to Sony in 2013 who then sold it to AMC for a TV series. In 2011, Cerasoli made her first documentary, ''14 DAYS with Alzheimer's'', starring her grandmother and her own daughter, Jazz. It won 16 national awards.

==Filmography== ===Film=== {| class="wikitable sortable" ! Year ! Film ! Role ! class="wikitable unsortable" | Notes |- | 2002 | ''S1mOne'' | Premiere Audience Member | |}

===Television=== {| class="wikitable sortable" ! Year ! Title ! Role ! class="wikitable unsortable" | Notes |- | 1995-1997 | ''Acapulco Bay'' | Marnie Swanson | 52 episodes |- | 1997 | House of Frankenstein | | 2 episodes tv miniseries |- | 1998 | Pensacola: Wings of Gold | Dana Mason | Episode: "S.O.D." Episode: "Stand Down" |- | rowspan="2" | 1997-1999 | General Hospital | rowspan="2" | Venus "V" Ardanowski | |- | Port Charles | |- | 1999 | Oh, Grow Up | Janet | Episode: "Pilot" |- | 1999-2000 | The Pretender | Zoe | Episode: "Road Trip" Episode: "The Inner Sense: Part 1" Episode: "The Inner Sense: Part 2" |- | 1998-2000 | Diagnosis: Murder | Sheryl Winter Julie Warren | Episode: "Baby Boom" Episode: "Blind Man's Bluff" |- | 2002 | Boomtown | Mia Lang | Episode: "The Squeeze" |}

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==External links== *{{IMDb name|0148453}}

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