Biography

Lisa Marie Wilson is a best selling author, comedian, and cancer survivor. In her debut novel, "Traveling Daisy: A Generational Cancer Story of Disease and Dysfunction," she looks deep into her life that started in a trailer park and questions, "Did my chaotic life cause my cancer?" She is the fifth generation of her family to be diagnosed with the disease. Her great-great grandma had breast cancer, her great grandpa had colon, her grandma had breast, her mom had melanoma and she had thyroid.

Lisa Marie Wilson was born to an Elvis impersonator and a nurse in Lapeer, Michigan, but resides in Los Angeles, California. She writes and produces a variety of entertainment for both TV and the Internet including comedy web series, VideoBreakups.com and BFFENT.com. As an actress she has appeared on the TV show Ten Things I Hate About You as well as many independent features and national commercials. Lisa Marie owns the hat store Celebrity Hats, which has received national press including Page Six, InStyle, The Other Half, Soap Talk, and Fox 11. She writes for the Huffington Post and starred in a TV Pilot titled "Over the Hill" with Robert Wagner and Tim Conway.

This isn't the first time Lisa Marie has looked at her family tree to find answers to important questions. She produced a documentary about her brother called, "My Careless Brother's Vasectomy," where she promotes vasectomies to men who don't take care of their children. In her latest attempt to find the funny in her dysfunctional family, she writes her very real and honest travels through life and cancer all with a smile and a hearty laugh. She honestly believes that to get through the cancer times in life, that laughter is better than a xanax. She has also written many TV pilots, feature films and spec scripts.
- IMDb mini biography by: Howard Warman