Laurie holds dual citizenship
in both the United States and Canada. Daughter of Hollywood character actor Larry
Holden and stage and film actress Adrianne Ellis, Laurie received her first film
role when she was a young child. While on the set visiting her step-father, director
Michael Anderson, a child actress hired to play Rock Hudsons daughter in
The Martian Chronicles never made it and Laurie filled in. All of a sudden,
Im Rock Hudsons daughter.
As
a teenager, Laurie won The Look of the Year modeling contest in Toronto. However,
she set her sights on acting and attended UCLA to pursue this goal and took acting
classes from the late Robert Reed of Brady Bunch fame. She also won the prestigious
Natalie Wood Acting award.
Laurie
has appeared in various TV shows including Highlander, Murder She Wrote, and Due
South for which she was nominated for a Gemini Award (the Canadian equivalent
to an Emmy) as best guest star in 1996. Her most visible roles are as Marita Covarrubias
on The X-Files, Special Agent Fox Mulder's latest informant and feisty frontier
woman Mary Travis on The Magnificent Seven.
Recently,
Laurie has appeared in The Majestic as Jim Carrey's love interest.
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