Lori Petty

ACTRESS, WRITER, PRODUCER

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29th May 2022 | FlixCatalog Staff

After this feisty, kinetic, highly offbeat actress from Chattanooga, Tennessee, broke into TV in the 1980s, she immediately set herself apart from the norm with the mini-movie Bates Motel (1987). This rather inauspicious beginning would also set Lori Petty off on a career as a fighter and a misfit, types for which she would be best known.She spent her childhood traveling the US with her father, a Pentecostal minister. Her keen talents first lent themselves toward being a graphic artist in Omaha, Nebraska, but an impulsive desire to act quickly took precedence and soon she was off to New York, where she took acting classes and pounded the pavement for jobs.Going nowhere fast, she eventually headed for Los Angeles and finally found an "in". Following a number of mediocre TV roles, she won a bit of attention on the short-lived series Booker (1989) as a lippy secretary, then hit paydirt in secondary roles as an outrageous Cyndi Lauper wannabe in Cadillac Man (1990) and as Patrick Swayze's ex-girlfriend/waitress who hooks up with Keanu Reeves in Point Break - Extrême limite (1991).It looked like mainstream stardom might happen for the tomboy actress, especially after getting cast as Geena Davis' bratty baseball-playing sister in the highly successful Une équipe hors du commun (1992).However, Lori was an intriguing, kooky sort and difficult to cast. Such disparate roles as a kind-hearted animal trainer in Sauvez Willy (1993) and the sole female recruit in Pauly Shore's inane comedy In the Army Now (1994) only proved the point.She seemed bent towards playing scrappy figures alongside the big action guys but started off on the wrong foot when she was replaced by Sandra Bullock in Sylvester Stallone's Demolition Man (1993) due to "artistic differences".She did play a lone female cop in the thriller The Glass Shield (1994), then found her true calling as the bizarre cartoon heroine Tank Girl (1995), which was billed as "a post-apocalyptic comedy".The crop-haired, tough-as-nails actress has been taking it to the limit ever since, most recently co-starring with the similarly styled Gina Gershon in Prey for Rock & Roll (2003) as members of a punk rock band. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Gary Brumburgh / gr-home@pacbell.net

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Streaming Availability

Amazon Video has the most number of Lori Petty’s flixes, followed by Vudu compared to other streaming platforms. See the full graph below.

Releases by Year

Lori Petty on average has worked on 1 movies per year from 1987 to 2020. See the full graphs of the number of Lori Petty movies released per year from 1996 till 2020.

Top Genres

Lori Petty works mostly in Drama Genre followed by Crime Genre flixes. 27% of Lori Petty movies are Drama Genre movies. See Top Genres that Lori Petty worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Lori Petty has worked on is 5.9.

5.9 / 10

Lori Petty's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

Biography,Documentary
I Am Patrick Swayze (2019)

An inside look at the life of Patrick Swayze as told by the people who knew him best.

7.7/1092 min

Available in 7 platform(s).

Two sisters join the first female professional baseball league and struggle to help it succeed amidst their own growing rivalry.

7.3/10128 min

Available in 10 platform(s).

Action,Crime,Thriller
Point Break (1991)

An F.B.I. Agent goes undercover to catch a gang of surfers who may be bank robbers.

7.2/10122 min

Available in 12 platform(s).

A dramatization of Lori Petty's teenage years spent in small town Iowa.

6.3/1093 min

Available in 2 platform(s).

Crime,Drama,Mystery
Booker (1989)

Dennis Booker, an ex-cop, is hired by the U.S. office of a large Japanese company to investigate some suspect insurance claims. He is very anti-authority, resents being told what to do, and...

6.2/1060 min

Available in 3 platform(s).

Two cops become compelled to act against corruption and discrimination within their police precinct.

6.1/10109 min

Available in 11 platform(s).

Adventure,Drama,Family
Free Willy (1993)

When a boy learns that a beloved killer whale is to be killed by the aquarium owners, the boy risks everything to free the whale.

6/10112 min

Available in 12 platform(s).

An agoraphobic man and a female Marine become emotionally entangled as they struggle to escape from their personal prisons.

5.9/1090 min

Available in 7 platform(s).