Lisa Coleman (actress)

Lisa Jacqueline Coleman (born 10 July 1970) is an English actress best known for her television roles as Jude Korcanik in Casualty (1994–1997) and Cam Lawson in The Story of Tracy Beaker (2002–2005). Coleman reprised the role in Tracy Beaker Returns (2010–2012), My Mum Tracy Beaker (2021) and The Beaker Girls (2021–2023).

Career
Lisa Coleman was born in Hammersmith, London, She is the sister of television and film actress Charlotte Coleman and the younger daughter of Ann Beach and Francis Coleman. Lisa Coleman attended Anna Scher Theatre School at age six, going on to complete secondary education and A-levels.

Her first appearance, as a child actress, was on an 1977 episode of Crown Court. Her first film role was a minor appearance in the 1981 film Loophole. She continued her schooling while pursuing her acting career, appearing in single episodes of numerous television series.

By the mid-1990s, Coleman had started a Bachelor's degree in Psychology with the UK Open University. In September 1994, she began a three year run on the BBC television drama series Casualty, playing the character of staff nurse Jude Korcanik. Coleman left the series in February 1997, when her character moved to Crete.

In 1993 she modelled for Euan Uglow's painting Articulation, posing nude.

Her radio work includes a six-part series for the BBC in 1999, Old Dog and Partridge.

She attended her graduation ceremony in June 2005, after studying for more than a decade. In a subsequent interview for the Open University's alumni magazine Sesame expressed her desire to continue working with the National Health Service and long-term aim to earn a Master of Arts degree.

Coleman has been a volunteer occupational therapist in a psychiatric unit.

Radio

 * Lisa in Afternoon Theatre: a home of our own (1980, Radio 4)
 * Emily in No Commitments
 * Nicola in Old Dog and Partridge