Laura Allen
Laura Allen
Reportedly a distant relative of the late Princess Grace of Monaco, Portland, OR, native Laura Allen grew up on Washington State's Bainbridge Island, and attended Wellesley College, earning her undergraduate degree not in the performing arts but in criminology. After an exhausting stint doing social work in Manhattan, Allen sought out acting as a break from a draining and demanding career. She commenced with off-Broadway theatrical assignments, then moved into filmed work in 2000, with the recurring role of Laura Kirk English du Pres on the long-running soap opera All My Children -- a part she held for two years. Allen achieved her first major movie break as a Wellesley coed (no major stretch given her background) in Mike Newell's female-driven period drama Mona Lisa Smile (2003), opposite Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, and others. Allen then made an impression as a recurring cast member on two television series. On the sci-fi drama The 4400, she played Lily, one of four thousand MIA people disgorged by a falling meteorite. As the series rolls forward, the character must not only contend with the fact that the life of her family has continued, more or less unabated, without her, but deal with a mysterious pregnancy by an unknown progenitor. Allen then essayed a much different role on the prime-time melodrama Dirt, as a beloved young actress who finds her life and world destroyed by a nefarious tabloid. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
Filmography of Laura Allen:
- Mona Lisa Smile with Julia Roberts , Kirsten Dunst , Julia Stiles , Maggie Gyllenhaal , Juliet Stevenson , Dominic West , Ginnifer Goodwin , Topher Grace , John Slattery , Marcia Gay Harden , Jordan Bridges , Marian Seldes , Donna Mitchell , Terence Rigby , Tori Amos , Christopher Bonomo , Rony Clanton , Leslie Lyles , Lou Brock , Chuck Montgomery , Joel Palmer , Aleksa Palladino , Charles Techman , Lisa Roberts Gillan , Dan Weltner , Larry Grenadier , Julie Wagner , Becky Veduccio , Kevin Osborne , Ebon Moss-Bachrach , John Scurti , James Callahan , Liliane Thomas , Krysten Ritter , Taylor Roberts , Paul Vincent Black , Jennie Eisenhower , Lily Lodge , Christopher Braden Jones , Ed Peed , June Miller , Lauren Adler , Daisy Baldwin , Janine Barris , Emily Bauer , Kirstie Bingham , Jennifer Bowen , Angelique Claire , Nikki Coble , Kristen Connolly , Kristyn Coppola , Kimberly Ehly , Megan Marie Ford , Lauren Fruchter , Kate Glass , Amanda Gruss , Stella Hao , Walker Hays , Michele Hillen , Annika Marks , Amy Montminy , Lily Rabe , Katherine Reilly , Brandy Tipton , Trisha Trokan , Megan Tropea , Maja Walpvszyl , Mary S. Pascoe , Elise Passamani , Laura M. Flahive , Devon Jencks , Erin E. Richardson , Emily R. See , Rob Buntzen , Richard O'Rourke , Katherine Argo , Shelby Bond , Michael Choi , Melissa Deles , John D. Fowler , Nicole Frydman , Noelle Gibson , Maria Vicens Girau , Natalie Gomez , Sid Grant , Madeleine Hackney , Betina Hershey , Yuval Hod , Richard Jones , Jerry Jordan , Nickolay Khazanov , Nadia Kravets , Maria Levinstein , Kellydawn Malloy , Annette Nicole , Lance Olds , Christian Perry , Daniel Ponickly , Tony Scheppler , Solomon Singer , Gabriel Vaughan , Kim Villanueva , Sarah Billings Wheeler , Denise Zadroga , Peter J. Rowan , Brad Mehldau , Jennifer H. Anderson , Lindsey White , Chris Burke , Dorothy Dwyer , Melanie Angelique Moyer , Canedy Knowles , Kristen Marie Holly , Carrie Ann Kaye , Jackie Sanders





