Lana Tisdel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Lana Tisdel

Date of Birth: 28-May-1974

Place of Birth: Falls City, Nebraska, United States

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Lana M.
Tisdel (born March 1, 1975) is an American woman whose early life and involvement with the December 1993 murders of Brandon Teena, Phillip DeVine and Lisa Lambert was chronicled in the 1998 documentary The Brandon Teena Story and the 1999 film Boys Don't Cry (which left out DeVine).
She was portrayed in the film by Chloë Sevigny, who was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance as Tisdel. The director of the film, Kimberly Peirce, worked on the script for many years and interviewed Lana and her mother for details on their life.
Peirce also drew information from other sources including All She Wanted by Aphrodite Jones (1996), a biography of Brandon Teena and the lives of those involved with the murders; and a 1994 Village Voice piece written by Donna Minkowitz which was responsible for the story becoming a media sensation in the early 1990s.