Laura Harris(II)
- Actress
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Born to public school teachers in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Laura
Harris began acting professionally in CBC radio dramas at an early age.
With a taste for quirky, character-driven material, Harris is known for
playing 1930's starlet "Daisy Adair" in Showtime's cult hit
Dead Like Me (2003) with
Mandy Patinkin and
Callum Blue. Film work includes
Robert Rodriguez's
The Faculty (1998),
Christopher Guest 's
A Mighty Wind (2003) and Chris
Smith's comedic thriller
Severance (2006) with Toby Stephens and Tim McInnerny. Recently voicing the role of "Kitty Pryde" in Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men: Gifted (2009),
other television work includes Showtime's
The Outer Limits (1995),
CTV's Defying Gravity (2009)
with Ron Livingston and a SAG
nominated turn in FOX's runaway hit
24 (2001) starring
Kiefer Sutherland. In her personal
time, Laura is active in the food justice community, recently receiving
a full scholarship for the University of California, Berkeley to study
social-ecological systems design. She splits her time between Los
Angeles and the Bay Area.