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Lisa Ann Walters' career spans television, film and stage. She currently stars as Melissa Schemmenti in ABC’s Emmy-nominated, SAG Award Best Comedy Ensemble-winning “Abbott Elementary.” She is a successful stand up comedian, having spent the last 20 years touring the US to sold out venues. This spring, her first ever stand up special will premiere on Hulu. Walter’s film credits include the beloved The Parent Trap, Shall We Dance?, Bruce Almighty and Steven Spielberg’s War of The Worlds. Walter co-created, produced and starred in Fox’s My Wildest Dreams, ABC's Life's Work and NBC’s Dance Your Ass Off. Walter's memoir, The Best Thing About My Ass Is That It’s Behind Me (Harper Collins/Harper One) is a comedic look at a chronic self-loather and former “chubby” girl trying to make it in the glamorous world of size “0” Hollywood.  Walter is on the board of numerous organizations: The Entertainment Community Fund (for whom she won $1 million as Celebrity Jeopardy champion), the ERA Coalition as a long-dedicated Women’s Rights Activist, and the SAG/AFTRA National & Local Organization where she was recently elected as the First Vice President of the Los Angeles Local. Walter is most proud of being a working mom of four with “one foot on the red carpet…the other at Costco”.