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- Height5′ 6½″ (1.69 m)
- Born to public school teachers in British Columbia, Canada, Laura Harris began working in CBC radio dramas and animation at an early age. With a taste for quirky, character-driven material, Harris is best known for playing 1930's starlet "Daisy Adair" in Showtime's cult hit Dead Like Me (2003) with Mandy Patinkin. Film work includes Robert Rodriguez's The Faculty (1998), Christopher Guest 's A Mighty Wind (2003) and Chris Smith's comedic thriller Severance (2006) with Toby Stephens and Tim McInnerny. Recently voicing the role of "Kitty Pryde" in Astonishing X-Men (2009), other ensemble leads include ABC's Defying Gravity (2009) with Ron Livingston and a SAG nominated turn in FOX's runaway hit 24 (2001) starring Kiefer Sutherland. In her personal time, Laura is active in the food justice community, recently receiving a full scholarship for the University of California, Berkeley to study social-ecological systems design. She splits her time between Los Angeles and the Bay Area.
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- Played violin from the age of three.
- Her first feature film in America was Suicide Kings (1997) starring Christopher Walken and Denis Leary. The film's final scenes with Walken, Leary and Harris were filmed at Catalina Island. It was rumored to be the first time Walken had returned to Catalina Island since the night Natalie Wood drowned there in 1981.
- Mother is a lettuce and honey farmer in Crescent Beach, Canada.
- Is of Scottish, Scandinavian and Iberian descent.
- Both siblings are lawyers.
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