Lisa Donovan

Name	LisaNova
Caption	Lisa Donovan in February 2010.
Birth name	Lisa K Donovan
Birth date	June 11, 1980
Birth place	Los Angeles, California, United States
Nationality	American
Years active	June 7, 2006-present
Known for	Comedy,
Website	lisanovalive.com
Web alias	LisaNova
Web host service	YouTube

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Lisa Donovan (born June 11, 1980) is an American actress and writer. She self-produces comedic short films, published under the username LisaNova on YouTube.

Donovan was a student at the University of Colorado at Boulder before moving to Los Angeles, California hoping to become an actress. There she founded Zappin Productions, a production company specializing in viral videos. She is currently in charge of Creative Development. She is the sister of fellow YouTuber Ben Donovan, who is known as TheBDonski.

LisaNova on YouTube

Donovan uploaded her first video, "Introducing LisaNova," to YouTube on June 7, 2006. She has parodied a number of celebrities and public figures, including Keira Knightley, Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, Lindsay Lohan, Heidi Montag, Lauren Conrad and Kim Kardashian. Her most popular video is a commercial parody entitled "Dumb Water." As of August 23, 2010 LisaNova is listed as the 33rd most subscribed of all time and 9th most subscribed for directors with 594,423 subscribers. On July 10, 2007, Donovan posted a video titled "LisaNova does YOUTUBE!!!!", in which she kidnaps prominent YouTube users and forces them to comment to her subscribers, a reference to accusations and outrage from the YouTube community that she had used spambots to send thousands of messages to other YouTube users for publicity. The video received more than 2.65 million views as of March 23, 2010 and while YouTube chose not to suspend Donovan's channel for violation of their Terms of Service, it resulted in YouTube altering its messaging policy, restricting the number of messages that could be left on a channel in a certain time period. She debuted in a spoof of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, where she played Salma Hayek, the producer of the ABC Comedy Ugly Betty, and Rosie O'Donnell. The episode aired on February 17, 2007. After signing a contract and only appearing in four episodes of MADtv, her featured player role was not extended into the following season.

See also

List of YouTube personalities

Fame beyond YouTube

Notes and references

External links

LisaNova at YouTube

Category:1980 births Category:Living people Category:American Internet personalities Category:Actors from California Category:People from Scarsdale, New York Category:MADtv Category:University of Colorado alumni