Lisa Peake

Short Biography

British actress and dancer. She appeared in four films of the early sixties: "Expresso Bongo" (1960) as Chinese Rose, with Laurence Harvey and Cliff Richard; "A Matter of Choice" (1963) as Jane, opposite Ballard Berkeley, who was later to be the Major in "Fawlty Towers"; "She" (1965), based on the story by Sir Henry Rider Haggard, as a night-club dancer; and "Bunny Lake is Missing" (1965), with Sir Laurence, Sir Noel, and The Zombies. She featured in two episodes of "The Avengers" on television: as Mei-Li in "Kill the King" (1961), and in "The Golden Fleece" (1963) as Esther, a hat-check girl in a Chinese restaurant.