Lisa Arrindell Last updated August 11, 2025 American actress
Lisa Arrindell
Arrindell at Evidence Dance Company's Winter Gala at the
Hudson Theater in 2008
Born (1969-03-24 ) March 24, 1969 (age 56) Education The Juilliard School Occupation Actress Years active 1991–present Spouse Basil Anderson
( m. 1993
; div. 2015
) Children 2
Lisa Arrindell (born March 24, 1969), also credited as Lisa Arrindell Anderson , is an American actress. Beginning her career in the early 1990s, Arrindell is most known for her role as Vanessa Breaux-Henderson in Madea's Family Reunion (2006), Heather Comstock in the series In the House (1995), and Toynelle Davis in Livin' Large (1991).
Career Arrindell made her film debut in Walt Disney 's One Good Cop alongside Michael Keaton in 1991. That same year, she played the lead in the comedy Livin' Large . She later appeared in Trial by Jury Spike Lee 's Clockers NBC sitcom In the House A Lesson Before Dying Don Cheadle and Cicely Tyson , and Disappearing Acts (2000) starring Sanaa Lathan . In 2006, Arrindell appeared in three films, Big Momma's House 2 , The Second Chance , and Madea's Family Reunion . In 2010, she appeared in The Wronged Man with Julia Ormond and Mahershala Ali . Arrindell appeared opposite Isaiah Washington in the thriller The Sin Seer (2015) and appeared in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Oprah Winfrey . She also had guest starring roles on The Cosby Show , The Practice , The Steve Harvey Show , Drop Dead Diva , Law & Order: Special Victims Unit , and Elementary Bounce TV prime-time soap opera Saints & Sinners Fox 's Our Kind of People in 2022.
Arrindell recently starred in the film 12 Angry Men And...Women on Apple TV with Wendell Pierce and BET 's Favorite Son (2021). Arrindell opened the revival of Law & Order (2022) in its first episode as Veronica King. Arrindell has guest starred on several other network series, including Random Acts of Flyness , Bull , Elementary Madam Secretary Law & Order: Special Victims Unit , and Notorious . Some of her stage performances include the Broadway revival of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with James Earl Jones and Phylicia Rashad , Jubilee (Arena Stage ), Reparations (Billie Holiday Theatre ), Richard III (Delacorte Theater ), Heliotrope Bouquet (Playwrights Horizons ), and Earth & Sky (Second Stage ).
Personal life Arrindell married Basil Anderson in 1993. Together, they have two children. The couple divorced in 2015, and she reverted to her maiden name. Arrindell currently resides in New York City.
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