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Laura Marcus (actress)

Laura Marcus (born 2004) is a British actress, writer, and director known for Jinx in Bad Education, Caitlin in The Jetty, Mollie Garfield in Death by Lightning, and upcoming Hunger Games and Assassin's Creed roles; distinct from the sports-TV producer and the Sussex professor of the same name.

Laura Mora

Laura Mora Ortega (born 1981, Medellín) is a Colombian film and TV director and screenwriter; winner of the 2022 San Sebastián Golden Shell for Los reyes del mundo, director of Matar a Jesús and Netflix's Cien años de soledad episodes.

Laura Prepon

Laura Prepon (born 1980, Watchung, New Jersey) is an American actress and director known as Donna Pinciotti on That '70s Show and Alex Vause on Orange Is the New Black, later directing That '90s Show episodes.

Laura San Giacomo

Laura San Giacomo (born 1962) is an American actress known as Maya Gallo on Just Shoot Me!, Kit De Luca in Pretty Woman, and Cynthia in Sex, Lies, and Videotape, with later roles on NCIS, Saving Grace, Barry, and Sugar.

Laura Vandervoort

Laura Vandervoort (born 1984, Toronto) is a Canadian actress and producer known as Kara Zor-El/Supergirl on Smallville, Elena Michaels on Bitten, and Lisa on V; she also produces indies via Lava Works Entertainment.

Laura Whitmore

Laura Whitmore (born 1985, Dublin) is an Irish TV and radio presenter, writer, and actress based in London, known for MTV News Europe (2008–2015), hosting Love Island (2020–2022), I'm a Celebrity...NOW!, 2:22 A Ghost Story, and Laura Whitmore Investigates.

Laura Woods (English presenter)

Laura Woods is an English sports broadcaster, known for her lead coverage of UEFA Champions League on TNT Sports since 2023 and her radio work.

Laura Wright

Laura Wright (born Laura Alice Sisk, 1970) is an American actress; since November 4, 2005 she has played Carly on General Hospital, after roles on Loving, The City, and Guiding Light, winning a 2011 Daytime Emmy.

Laurel Holloman

Laurel Holloman (born 1971, Chapel Hill, NC) is an American actress and painter, known as Randy Dean in The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love and Tina Kennard on The L Word; since 2010 a full-time abstract painter.

Laurel Marsden

Laurel Marsden (born 2001) is an American actress known as Zoe Zimmer in Ms. Marvel (2022) and Amy in The Pope's Exorcist (2023); debut in Contempt (2019), later Dead of Winter (2025).

Lauren "Lolo" Spencer

Lauren "Lolo" Spencer, also known as Lolo Spencer, is an American actress, model, and disability advocate born in 1987. Known for Give Me Liberty, The Sex Lives of College Girls, Bob Trevino Likes It, and her YouTube channel Sitting Pretty; diagnosed with ALS at 14.

Lauren Ambrose

Lauren Ambrose, born Lauren Anne D'Ambruoso (1978, New Haven), is an American actress known as Claire Fisher on Six Feet Under, Dorothy Turner on Servant, Van on Yellowjackets, and Tony-nominated Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady.

Lauren Ash

Lauren Ash (born 1983, Belleville, Ontario) is a Canadian actress and comedian, a Second City Toronto and Chicago Mainstage alumna, best known as Dina Fox on Superstore and Lexi on Not Dead Yet, with a 2025 pop-punk debut album.

Lauren Bacall

Lauren Bacall, born Betty Joan Perske (1924–2014), American film and stage actress famous for The Look and husky voice; star of To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep, Key Largo; Bogart's widow; two-time Tony winner.

Lauren Buglioli

Lauren Buglioli (born 1987) is an American actress, also known as Vanessa McBride on CBS's Beyond the Gates. Born in Los Angeles, raised in London, Atlanta-based; known for Florida Man, Bad Monkey, and A Jazzman's Blues.

Lauren Cohan

Lauren Cohan (Lauren Elizabeth Cohan, born 1982) is an American-British actress known for Maggie on The Walking Dead and Dead City; also Supernatural, The Vampire Diaries, Chuck, Whiskey Cavalier.

Lauren Collins

Lauren Felice Collins (born 1986, Thornhill, Ontario) is a Canadian actress best known as Paige Michalchuk on Degrassi: The Next Generation (2001–2009), later in Take the Lead, Charlie Bartlett, What We Do in the Shadows, My Dead Mom, and Frankenstein (2025).

Lauren Conrad

Lauren Conrad (LC), born 1986, American reality TV star of MTV's Laguna Beach and The Hills, later fashion designer of LC Lauren Conrad at Kohl's, NYT bestselling author, and Little Market cofounder.

Lauren E. Banks

Lauren E. Banks (born 1990, Durham, North Carolina) is an American actress, a Howard University and Yale School of Drama graduate known for Siobhan Quays in City on a Hill and Jennie Reeves in Lawmen: Bass Reeves.

Lauren Faust

Lauren Johanna Faust (born 1974) is an American animator, writer, director and producer, creator of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and DC Super Hero Girls, Emmy winner for Foster's Home, distinct from the opera Faust and Faust International.

Lauren German

Lauren German (born 1978, Huntington Beach, California) is an American actress known as Chloe Decker in Lucifer (2016–2021), Leslie Shay in Chicago Fire, and for the horror films The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Hostel: Part II.

Lauren Goodger

Lauren Goodger (Lauren Rose Goodger, born 1986, Hackney, London) is an English reality-TV personality, original cast member of The Only Way Is Essex from 2010, founder of Lauren's Way, and author of Secrets of an Essex Girl.

Lauren Graham

Lauren Graham (Lauren Helen Graham), American actress born 1967 in Honolulu, star of Gilmore Girls' Lorelai Gilmore and Parenthood's Sarah Braverman, author of Talking as Fast as I Can, SMU MFA 1992.

Lauren Harries

Lauren Harries (Lauren Charlotte Harries, born James Charles Harries, 1978) is a British media personality, former child antiques expert on Wogan, Celebrity Big Brother 2013 finalist, artist, and brain-surgery survivor.

Lauren Holly

Lauren Holly (born 1963) is an American actress known as Maxine Stewart on Picket Fences, Mary Swanson in Dumb and Dumber, NCIS Director Jenny Shepard, and Motive's Betty Rogers; based in Canada since the 2000s.

Lauren Hutton

Lauren Hutton (Mary Laurence Hutton), American model and actress born 1943 in Charleston, South Carolina; record American Vogue cover holder, 1973 Revlon contract, films American Gigolo and The Gambler.

Lauren Lane

Lauren Lane (Laura Kay Lane), American actress born 1961 in Oklahoma City, played C.C. Babcock on The Nanny (1993-1999, 145 episodes) and Chris Novak on Hunter; now Professor and Head of Acting at Texas State University.

Lauren Lee Smith

Lauren Lee Smith (born 1980, Vancouver) is a Canadian actress known for Mutant X's Emma DeLauro, Lara Perkins on The L Word, CSI's Riley Adams, The Listener, Frankie Drake Mysteries, and films Lie With Me, Trick 'r Treat, and The Shape of Water.

Lauren London

Lauren London, born 1984 in Los Angeles, is an American actress and model who broke out as New New in ATL (2006), later starred in This Christmas, The Game, Without Remorse (2021), and Netflix's You People (2023), and was the partner of Nipsey Hussle from 2013 until his 2019 killing.

Lauren Lyle

Lauren Lyle (born 1992, Scotland) is a Scottish actress known as Marsali in Outlander and the lead of ITV's Karen Pirie, winning two 2023 BAFTA Scotland awards; also Vigil, The Ridge, Toxic Town.