Lisa Dwan was born in 1978 in Coosan, Athlone, Co. Westmeath, Ireland. She is an actress, known for Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog (1998), The Tailor of Panama (2001) and Oliver Twist (1997).
She originally wanted to be a ballet dancer and left school at 14 after winning a ballet scholarship to attend the Dorothy Stevens School of Ballet in Leeds, England. She later attended th Lewis Ballet Company in London. She had to abandon ballet after a cartilage went in her knee.