Born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Lisa Durupt developed an early passion in her Prairie surroundings by playing ice hockey.
Lisa Durupt’s skills on the ice earned her a university scholarship in Minnesota until a shoulder injury put her hockey plans on hold and she enrolled at the University of Winnipeg. After seeing a production of A Chorus Line as her first assignment, she dropped her scholarship to study theatre and film at her home university before attending the Canadian College of Performing Arts.
Using her athletic and artistic background to her advantage, Lisa Durupt first entered the film industry as an actor, a stunt performer, and a dancer. When she caught the attention of Saturday Night Live and Kids in the Hall veteran Mark McKinney, Lisa Durupt was cast on his HBO Canada series, Less Than Kind in 2008. Her unrestrained turn as the feisty Shandra during the show’s four-season run earned a 2010 Gemini Award nomination and a 2013 Leo Award nomination.
Following projects like The Color of Rain featuring Lacey Chabert, and the TV favorites, Supernatural & Psych, Lisa Durupt went to the big screen for Preggoland as the preferred daughter of James Caan who finds the tables turned when her competitive, underachieving sister Sonja Bennett fakes a pregnancy. Preggoland became a film festival favorite around North America and earned Lisa Durupt her second Leo Award nomination.
Since then, Lisa Durupt has taken her career in diverse directions across multiple entertainment mediums. She joined Alison Sweeney for five chapters of the highly-rated Murder She Baked film series for Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, quickly becoming a network favorite on over 20 Hallmark movies like The Reunited At Christmas, A Dream of Christmas and Operation Christmas. Further success followed with a guest-starring role on Date My Dad, a third Leo Award nomination for The Goodnight Kiss, and a return to series television with a recurring role on the internationally-recognized drama Heartland.
In 2019, she co-starred alongside Chrissy Metz, Topher Grace, Mike Colter, and Josh Lucas in the FOX 2000 drama Breakthrough and earned a 4th Leo nomination for the sequel to the comedy franchise, Benchwarmers, starring Jon Lovitz and Chris Klein. Up next you can catch her in Love Guaranteed on NETFLIX, alongside Rachael Leigh Cook, Damon Wayans Jr., and Heather Graham.
Outside of acting, Lisa Durupt is the founder of Tricities Film Studio and co-founder of Coquitlam Pictures Inc. alongside Emmy award-winning producer Jim Rapsas and her husband Michael Lyons. She is personally committed to a number of causes including women in film, Multiple Sclerosis, and homelessness.
In 2019 she became a mom to a healthy baby girl, Everly Violet.
