Lisa Janti

Lisa Janti is known as Lisa Montell as a Hollywood actress of the 195060s, and then shifted her career to one of advocacy and service to various disadvantaged groups and to her adopted religion, the Bah Faith.

Lisa Janti, known as Lisa Montell as a Hollywood actress of the 195060s, was born Irena Ludmila Vladimirovna Augustynowic of RussianPolish ancestry, and her family fled Poland before World War II. On arrival in New York they changed their last name to Montwill so she grew up Irene Montwill. They lived in New York and Janti attended the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music amp Art and Performing Arts but transferred to High School of Performing Arts after it opened in 1948 where she became involved with acting. However her family moved her senior year in high school to Fort Pierce, Florida where she graduated from St. Lucie High School and then began taking courses at the University of Miami. Shortly her family moved to Peru where her father had a business interest. After becoming involved in Englishspeaking theatre she was noticed by Hollywood producer Dick Welding who offered her a part in Daughter of the Sun God, filmed in Peru c. 1953 with actor William Holmes, Shortly afterw

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