Lisa Ryan

Lisa Ryan (Lisa Gail Davenport; born c. 1960) is an American author and speaker. She has had a career as a television actress, host, reporter and producer. She assumed the title of Miss California in 1982 after Debra Maffett was crowned Miss America. She then re-entered and won the Miss California title in 1985. She grew up in Visalia, California and studied communications. 2Career 3In media While co-hosting the weekly television show Guidelines For Living in southern California in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Ryan studied film acting with R.J. Adams at The Actors Workshop while pursuing an acting career. She co-starred in Daughters of Privilege, an NBC "Movie of the Week", and held a feature role in Murder, She Wrote. Ryan appeared in the daytime dramas Days of Our Lives and The Young and the Restless. [1] Other television shows to her credit are Living the Life and Faith Café.From 1996 to the summer of 2005, Ryan worked for The 700 Club, a daily live television broadcast where she has worked as a producer, co-host and feature reporte