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Background:
Canadian actress Laura Harris is best remembered as spoiled actress Daisy Adair
(2003-2004) on Showtime's sci-fi comedy-drama series "Dead Like Me" and as Marie
Warner (2002-2003), the younger sister of Jack Bauer's love interest Kate
(played by Sarah Wynter), on Fox's hit spy drama starring Kiefer Sutherland,
"24." On the silver screen, she was credited in Kitchen Party (1997), The
Faculty (1998), The Calling (2000), Going Greek (2001), A Mighty Wind (2003) and
Severance (2006). She will co-star with Monica Keena, Breckin Meyer and Adam
Scott in the upcoming comedy film Ted's MBA* (Many Brief Affairs) and appear in
a TV series pilot called Women's Murder Club, alongside Angie Harmon and Paula
Newsome.
In 2000, the 5' 6½" actress and childhood friend Jeff Macpherson formed the
production company Rocket Chicken International Productions.
Canada Native
Childhood and Family:
Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on November 20, 1976, Laura Harris
was raised in Surrey, B.C. Canada. The daughter of school teachers, Laura was
educated at an all-girls Anglican school (Crofton House School for Girls) before
attending college through UC correspondence. She is fluent in English, French
and Spanish.
Laura is friends with Emily Perkins, whom she met at a drama school in
Vancouver.
Dead Like Me
Career:
Having acted in CBC radio dramas and animation series since the age of five,
Canada-born Laura Harris spent her teen years in Vancouver. She was seen on
Nickelodeon's popular teen sitcom “Fifteen” (a.k.a. Hillside; 1990), for which
she was nominated for a Young Artist Award for her role as Ashley Frasier. She
also appeared in director Peter Hyams' dark comedy film Stay Tuned (1992; with
John Ritter, Pam Dawber, Jeffrey Jones and Eugene Levy), the made-for-television
movie Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996; alongside Melissa Joan Hart), and
writer-director Rene Daalder's B-grade science fiction film, Habitat (1997).
In order to focus on acting full time, Laura moved to Los Angeles in 1997,
shortly after appearing in that year’s satirical film, Kitchen Party,
writer-director Gary Burns' Toronto Film Festival-released film in which she
co-starred as Scott Speedman's girlfriend Tammy. That same year, she supported
Christopher Walken and Henry Thomas in Peter O'Fallon's darkly comical
psychological thriller The Suicide Kings, based on the short story "The
Hostage," by Don Stanford. She followed it up with the next year’s role of
Louise, the mysterious new girl at school who has a crush on Josh Hartnett's
character, in Robert Rodríguez's horror sci-fi film, The Faculty, alongside
Elijah Wood, Jordana Brewster and Clea DuVall.
In January 2000, Laura and childhood friend Jeff Macpherson formed the
production company Rocket Chicken International Productions, based in North
Vancouver. Their first production was the independent romantic comedy film Come
Together (2001), written and directed by Macpherson. Laura also produced and
starred in the film, as Charlotte, the true love of Tygh Runyan's character.
Meanwhile, after preventing the destruction of mankind in Richard Caesar's
apocalyptic thriller The Calling (2000), Laura became a beautiful sophomore who
hates all fraternities in writer-director Justin Zackham's teen comedy film
Going Greek (2001; opposite Dylan Bruno). Afterward, Laura landed a role as
Marie Warner (2002-2003), the younger sister of Jack Bauer's love interest Kate
(played by Sarah Wynter) on Fox's award-winning action/drama/thriller starring
Kiefer Sutherland, "24."
When her contract with “24” ended in 2003, Laura joined the cast of Showtime's
sci-fi comedy-drama series "Dead Like Me," playing spoiled actress Daisy Adair
(2003-2004). Unfortunately, the show was axed after its second season. During
that time, she (and other cast members) won a Florida Film Critics Circle award
for Christopher Guest's A Mighty Wind (2003), inspired by the 1982 documentary
film The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time!
From 2005 to 2006, Laura played a recurring role on the USA Network's science
fiction/suspense series starring Anthony Michael Hall, "The Dead Zone," which
was filmed in her native country Canada. She was also spotted as a guest in an
episode of the Sci-Fi Channel's "Stargate Atlantis" and in the TV movies Four
Extraordinary Women and Hollis & Rae (both in 2006). Additionally, moviegoers
could watch her starring opposite Danny Dyer in Severance, a British comedy
horror film by Christopher Smith.
More recently, in February 2007, Laura guest starred in an episode of the
popular Emmy Award-winning CBS crime-drama series "CSI: Crime Scene
Investigation." She has completed her upcoming film, Ted's MBA* (Many Brief
Affairs), a comedy by writer-director Dan Cohen starring Monica Keena, Breckin
Meyer and Adam Scott. Additionally, she is now filming a TV series pilot called
Women's Murder Club, alongside Angie Harmon and Paula Newsome.
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