Lisa Lucas

Lisa Lucas (born 1961) is an American former child actress best known for her role as "Addie Mills" in the Emmy-winning Christmas television special, The House Without a Christmas Tree.{{cite news |date=December 22, 1999 |title=Girl's desire for tree tugs at heart strings |work=Herald-Journal}}{{cite news |author=Bianco, Robert |date=December 1, 2008 |title=Lords a-leaping! A top 10 for the holidays |work=USA Today}}

Career

Lucas also played Shirley MacLaine's daughter in the 1977 film The Turning Point,{{cite news|last1=Arnold|first1=Gary|title=The Turning Point|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1977/11/13/the-turning-point/41c6ed61-18e5-4aef-8666-02e120036b9e/|accessdate=4 October 2016|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=13 November 1977}} and Jill Clayburgh's daughter in 1978 film An Unmarried Woman.{{cite news|title=Films on Vietnam pace awards|date=December 18, 1978|work=The Day|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=KOwgAAAAIBAJ&pg=1243,4216390&dq=lisa-lucas+unmarried-woman+best-picture&hl=en}} In its review of An Unmarried Woman, The Washington Post said the part of the daughter was "smartly embodied by sharp-featured young actress Lisa Lucas"{{cite news|title=After Love Loses Its Bloom|date=April 5, 1978|newspaper=Washington Post|author=Arnold, Gary}} and Lucas was nominated for the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress. Lucas also had roles in the films Hadley's Rebellion (1983) and Heart and Souls (1993), the 1976 PBS series The Adams Chronicles{{cite book|last1=Roberts|first1=Jerry|title=Encyclopedia of Television Film Directors|date=2009|publisher=Scarecrow Press|location=Lanham, MD|isbn=9780810863781|page=53|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kW8j6sHvrewC&q=lisa+lucas+%22the+adams+chronicles%22&pg=PA53|accessdate=4 October 2016|language=en}} and the 1980 television film A Perfect Match.{{cite news|title=Linda Kelsey To Play a Fashion Designer|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1350&dat=19800515&id=DxNPAAAAIBAJ&pg=5609,2339656|accessdate=4 October 2016|work=Toledo Blade|date=May 15, 1980}} In 2002, Lucas appeared in a Denver stage production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.{{cite news|title=More companies forced to compete for fewer spaces|work=Denver Post|date=May 5, 2002|author=Moore, John}}