Lisa Dillon

Lisa Dillon
Born	Lisa Stawiarski 1979 (age 37–38) Coventry, England
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2003-present
Awards	Jack Tinker Award for Most Promising Newcomer The Master Builder Evening Standard Award for Outstanding Newcomer 2003 The Master Builder Critics Circle Award for Most Promising Newcomer 2003 The Master Builder

Lisa Dillon (born Lisa Stawiarski in 1979) is an English actress.

Dillon attended Bournemouth School for Girls and left in 1997. She began a degree in English Literature and Drama at Royal Holloway, University of London but abandoned it when she won a place at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).

Whilst training at RADA, Dillon appeared in several productions staged there, including: Hamlet and The Tempest by William Shakespeare, The Devils by John Whiting, The Devil's Law Case by John Webster, Yentl by Leah Napolin and The Playboy of the Western World by J. M. Synge. Her first theatrical job after graduatyion was the title role in Euripides' Iphigeneia at Aulis at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield.

She then went on to appear in numerous theatre productions, including as Hilda Wangel in The Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen at the Albery Theatre, (now the Noël Coward Theatre) London. Desdemona in Othello (with the RSC at the Trafalgar Studios, London, before embarking on an international tour). Ibsen's Hedda Gabler as Thea (Almeida Theatre, London, later transferring to the Duke of York's Theatre, London) and Period of Adjustment by Tennessee Williams (The Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon later transferring to the Almeida Theatre, London.)