Background:

American actress Laura Nativo has starred in several films, including “Aquanoids” (2003) and “Birth Rate” (2003). She also produced the films “Surf School” (2006) and “Rule of 3” (2008). In 2008, Nativo took part in the reality TV show “Greatest American Dog.”   

Nativo helped co-found Rock To Cure, for which she also serves as a spokesperson. The charity applies the universal language of music to raise money and consciousness for diverse organizations like City of Hope, National Kidney Foundation, Cystic Fibrosis, and Drug-Free America. She enjoys baseball, football, roller-blading, biking, tennis, rock climbing, and water sports.


Straight A Student

Childhood and Family:

In Parsippany, New Jersey, Laura Nativo was born on  October 16, 1980. She knew that she wanted to enter show business after making her on screen debut at age 5 on the popular children's television show “Romper Room.” However, the death of her mother from cancer several months later made she realized that her journey to Hollywood would be not easy. Six year old Laura had to raise herself as well as her younger sister, Lisa, while their father, Angelo (a scientist), was working.

Laura was educated at Catholic School for 12 years. Though her large yet necessary home responsibilities gave her not much time to study, she maintained her straight A+ grades,  and was excellent in traveling softball and soccer. An active girl, she still found time to cheer for the St. Christopher's basketball team, and competed in and won many forensics competitions. More importantly, she still pursued her dreams of becoming a movie star. Laura appeared in a number of plays, musicals and indie films, attended intense performing arts summer camps and even toured with the professional children's theater group Kids On Tour.

After graduating at the top of her eighth-grade class, Laura enrolled at Parsippany Hills High School, in which she continued on her hectic schedule. Her door to Hollywood was slightly opened after she was discovered by Woody Allen, who picked her at an open casting call in NYC to appear in his film, “Celebrity” (1998). This accomplishment prompted the 17 year old Laura to pack her bags for California. Originally wanting to spend only the summer there studying film and TV at UCLA and The Media Workshops, she decided to pursue her dreams in Hollywood, with full support from her father. Laura graduated from Beverly Hills High School in just three months through a special independent-study program for teens in entertainment with a 4.0 GPA. She declined full scholarships to a number of esteemed universities in favor of acting.


Greatest American Dog

Career:

Laura Nativo, who had her first on screen experience on the hit children's television show “Romper Room” when she was five years old, landed an uncredited part as jailbait in the Woody Allen film “Celebrity” (1998). Not long after this achievement, she headed to Hollywood to full fill her childhood ambitions of becoming a movie star.   

In 2002, Nativo was featured as Catholic schoolgirl in “High Voltage,” a film directed and co-written by Luka Pecel and starring Robert Steinman, Tim Hudson and Ali Elk. Besides, she co-starred with Nicki Arviso, Eliane Chappuis and Sara-Jayne Southey in the drama film “The Violent Kind” (2002), where she played the role of Wendy, and with Debbie Rochon, Danny Wolske and Allen Nabors in the direct to video “Bleed” (2002), which was written and co-directed by Devin Hamilton. In the following year, Nativo was cast in the leading role of Vanessa in “Aquanoids,” a horror film directed by Reinhart 'Rayteam' Peschke, as well as starred in two direct to video films, “Birth Rite” (opposite Natalie Sutherland, Danny Wolske) and “Delta Delta Die!” (with Julie Strain, Brinke Stevens and Joe Dain).

In 2006, Nativo had a part in the Nick Cassavetes film “Alpha Dog” and played Nurse in the short film “Repo! The Genetic Opera.” The same year, she made her producing debut with “Surf School,” serving as an executive producer.  She produced and starred in the short film “Threshold” (2007), which was helmed and written by Keith Domingue.

In 2008, Nativo and her dog participated in CBS' TV series “Greatest American Dog” in order to win $250,000 and the title “Greatest American Dog.” They, however, were eliminated in the episode “Salvador Doggy.” Still in that same year, Nativo served as a co-producer on the 2008 film “Rule of 3.”  

In 2010, Nativo co-hosted the game show “Dog Park Superstars.”


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