I’d say it’s almost like you were — Chessy! It’s been more than two decades since Lisa Ann Walter starred in 1998’s The Parent Trap, but she’s still recognizable as the beloved character — just ask her young Abbott Elementary costars.‘Parent Trap’ Campers: Where Are They Now?“On set the little kids that we have are six, seven years old.
They’ll hear me talk. I mean, I think I look similar, but with dark hair, and I’m not blonde anymore,” Walter, 58, exclusively told Us Weekly. “But the kids recognize my voice and then they’ll go, ‘You were the nanny!
You were in The Parent Trap!’ And Quinta [Brunson] will just sit there and go, ‘That is an entire baby that just recognized you from a movie that was shot 24 years ago.’”Walter is best known for playing Chessy in the film remake opposite Lindsay Lohan, Dennis Quaid, Elaine Hendrix and the late Natasha Richardson.
Following the Nancy Meyers-directed smash, she went on to star in multiple projects, including Life’s Work, Emeril, Breaking News, Bruce Almighty and Shall We Dance.
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