Anne Carlisle

Anne Carlisle (born 1956) is an American artist, actress, performance artist, acting teacher, author, and model.

She is known for co-writing and playing both the lead female and male counterpart roles in the film Liquid Sky.

Carlisle has practiced as a fine artist for five decades, having studied under her mentor Reuben Hale at Palm Beach Community College (A.A. 1975) in Lake Worth, FL, then at the School of Visual Arts (B.F.A. 1979) in New York, NY, and then in the New York University, SEHNAP Art Therapy Program (M.A. 1995) in New York, NY.

Carlisle posed for Playboy in 1984.

She also played a minor role of Victoria in the 1985 Susan Seidelman film Desperately Seeking Susan, the cross dresser prostitute Gwendoline in Crocodile Dundee and starred in an episode of TV series Miami Vice.

Carlisle also adapted and wrote a novel version of her cult, new wave film Liquid Sky.

In 2014 in an interview with The Awl it was confirmed by Liquid Sky director Slava Tsukerman, a sequel, Liquid Sky 2, was in the works.

Anne Carlisle would be returning in the sequel in the role of Margaret.

She currently has an art studio in Boynton Beach, FL, and is a founding member of the board of directors for The Artwork of Reuben Hale, a nonprofit in West Palm Beach, FL. Established in 2019, they plan to open the artist's former home to the community as a historic artist's studio and sculpture garden.