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Stage and screen actress Lisa Banes is fighting for her life after being struck by a hit-and-run driver this week in Manhattan — her first time back to the city she loves since the pandemic, worried friends told The Post on Saturday.
Banes, 65, — who lives in Los Angeles and whose credits include over two dozen roles in TV shows and movies, including “A Cure for Wellness,” and “Gone Girl” — was on her way to meet her wife for a dinner party at a close pal’s home near Lincoln Center when she was mowed down by someone on a red and black scooter or motor bike Friday at 6:30 p.m. on West 64th and Amsterdam Avenue, according to friends and police.
Banes was in the crosswalk and had the right of way, police said.
She remained in critical condition late Saturday in the intensive care unit at Mount Sinai Morningside hospital with a traumatic brain injury, her family and friends said.
“Lisa is in critical condition and we’ll know more in the next few days,” her wife, Kathryn Kranhold told The Post.
The terrible accident was a cruel twist for Banes, who had been thrilled to finally make it back to the Big Apple with her wife, eager to finally see old friends — and the city — that she missed so much, pals told The Post.
“She loves, loves, loves New York,” according to pal Cynthia Crossen, who said Banes’ itinerary included clinking glasses at an annual Memorial Day Weekend party at producer Clive Davis’ Westchester home.. “She’s an LA girl but she spent so many happy years here.”
On Friday, she had a mini reunion with the cast of “The Niceties,” the 2018 play she starred in at the Manhattan Theatre Club with Jordan Boatman, Crossen said.
Afterwards, she phoned Kranhold — a former Wall Street journal scribe whom she married at a small ceremony about four years ago at City Hall — at around 6:20 p.m. to meet up at Crossen’s pad near Lincoln Center.
When Banes didn’t show up, her wife began frantically calling her, with no answer each time. Eventually, someone at the hospital picked up her phone and told her the awful news.
Meanwhile, police said Saturday it was unclear what kind of vehicle hit Banes.
“No one knows for sure. Some witnesses said it was a scooter. Some said it was a motorcycle with no plate,” an NYPD spokesman said.
Police believe the driver blew through a red light at the intersection. No arrests have been made.
Banes, who was born in Ohio and raised in Colorado, attended Julliard and embarked on a long and varied career in New York and Hollywood.
She had roles on “One Life to Live,” “China Beach,” “The Royal Pains,” and “Nashville.” In 1988’s “Cocktail” she played Tom Cruise’s older love interest and she was the mother of the missing woman, played by Rosamund Pike, in “Gone Girl.”
On Broadway, she appeared in “Present Laughter” and “High Society” among other plays.
She was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for best featured actress in a play in 1984 for “Isn’t it Romantic.” She won a Theatre World Award in 1981 for the off-Broadway play “Look Back in Anger” and an Obie in 1982 for her role in “My Sister in This House.”
“She’s a great character,” said Crossen. “She’s funny. She’s fun. She’s vibrant. She’s just a person of many talents and interests.”
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