Lisa Davina Phillip

Who is Lisa Davina Phillip?

Lisa Davina Phillip is a British actress and singer.

Phillip began acting in her early teens, when she appeared in various productions for local theatre group Second Wave Centre For Youth Arts. She then studied Drama, Media and Popular Culture at University College Northampton, and went on to train as an actress at the Academy Drama School in London, where she was the recipient of the Stage Scholarship.

In 2003, she was a runner-up for the BBC’s Norman Beaton Fellowship. This led to radio work, including Mrs Wilkes in A Kind of Home: James Baldwin in Paris, and readings of Alice Walker and Tony White for BBC Radio 4’s Open Book.

Other voiceover work includes the lead role of teenage prostitute Macy in Jillian Li-Sue's harrowing, award-winning short film Laters.

Theatre credits include: Alphonsine in The Rwandan Testimonies, Edna Mitchell in Waiting For Lefty and Swing/Understudy for Shenzi and Rafiki in The Lion King. In 2006, she appeared in Trevor Nunn's acclaimed musical production of the Gershwins' Porgy and Bess. Her most recent theatre role was as Pat in Catalysta at the alongside Carmen Munroe and Angela Wynter.