“I don't want my tombstone to say actress. I want it to say human being.”
Nickname:
Holden, Blondie
Birthname:
Laurie Heather Holden
Hometown:
Los Angeles, California
Chicks She's Worked With
Gillian Anderson, Radha Mitchell, Kerry Washington, Jessica Alba, Amanda Detmer, Radha Mitchell, Jessica Alba, Julia Ormond, Deborah Unger, Kerry Washington, Jennifer Tilly, Marcia Gay Harden
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BIOGRAPHY
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 Hudson's daughter in The Martian Chronicles (1980) never made it and Laurie filled in.
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 (1996-2002), Special Agent Fox Mulder's latest informant and feisty frontier woman Mary Travis on The Magnificent Seven (1998-2000).
Laurie has appeared in The Majestic (2001) as Jim Carrey's love interest. She is noted for the role of the police officer Cybil Bennett in the Silent Hill movie (2006), Amanda Dunfrey in The Mist (2007), and Agent Olivia Murray on The Shield (2008-2009).
TRIVIA
Daughter of actors Larry Holden and Adrianne Ellis
Step-daughter of film director Michael Anderson
Was raised in Canada
Is a dual citizen of both Canada and USA
Won the "Look of the Year" modeling pagent in Toronto while still a teenager
Attend Montreal's McGill University and studied economics/political science. then transferred to UCLA to study in film and theatre
Her role model is actress Jessica Lange
She won her first acting job a week after receiving the "Natalie Wood Acting Award" upon graduating from UCLA
Has a younger brother called Christopher and a half sister
Favourite episode of "The Magnificent Seven" is Witness
Favourite episode of "The X-Files" is Patient X
Granddaughter of famous '40s actress Gloria Holden
Step-sister of actor Michael Anderson Jr.
Step-sister of producer David Anderson.
In The Majestic (2001), her character is inspired to become a lawyer by the film 'The Life of Emile Zola', in which her grandmother, Gloria Holden, appeared
At UCLA, studied under actor Robert Reed, and one of her classmates was editor Phil Faroudja.
Stuff she’s done, ie: movies, tv, albums:
The X-Files, The Outer Limits, Due South, The Majestic, Fantastic Four, Silent Hill, The Mist, The Shield, TekWar, Separate Vacations, The X Files, Murder She Wrote
Dudes she has worked with:
Thomas Jane, David Duchovny, Jim Carrey, Nicholas Lea, William B Davis, Robert Patrick, Michael Chiklis, Rock Hudson, Michael Biehn, Ron Perlman, Martin Landau, Eric Roberts, Sean Bean, Dean Caine, Andre Braugher
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