Born and raised in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, she began acting in CBC Radio dramas and animated series when she was five years old. As a child she was educated at the private Crofton House School in Vancouver; after moving to Los Angeles she took college correspondence courses in psychology. After several years of work in television, she broke into feature films as a teenager. She may be best known for playing Marybeth Louise Hutchinson in The Faculty, Daisy Adair in the Showtime series Dead Like Me, and Marie Warner in Season 2 of 24. While never officially quit acting, she switched her focus in 2010 to education and began attending college at UC Berkeley. While there, she began to show an interest in activism. In 2013, she began working for a tech company that also worked to improve local communities, politically and otherwise. In 2021, after a 6 year hiatus from acting, Laura took on the role of Willow Ward on the Netflix show Scaredy Cats, appearing in 3 episodes. Also in 2021 Laura had a part in the Lifetime Channel movie Gone Mom.

Filmography

• 2026Remarkably Bright Creatures — Andie
• 2021Gone Mom: The Disappearance of Jennifer Dulos — Audrey
• Scaredy Cats — Willa's Mom
• 2016Cycles — The woman
• 2014Preggoland — Shannon
• 2013Astonishing X-Men: Unstoppable — Shadowcat (voice)
• 2013Officer Down — Ellen Logue
• 2013The Privileged — Julia Westwood
• 2012An Officer and a Murderer — Det. Jennifer Dobson
• 2012Astonishing X-Men: Dangerous — Shadowcat (voice)
• 2012Astonishing X-Men: Torn — Shadowcat (voice)
• 2012Path of Souls — Grace Beardsley
• 2011Final Sale — Allison Graves
• 2011Snowmageddon — Beth Miller
• 2011Underworld: Endless War — Selene (voice)
• Underworld: Endless War — Selene
• Whole Day Down — Esther, Co-Executive Producer
• Astonishing X-Men — Kitty Pryde / Shadowcat (voice)
• Defying Gravity — Zoe Barnes
• 2009Merlin and the Book of Beasts — Avlynn
• Warehouse 13 — Lauren Andrews
• 2008Corporate Affairs — Cassie Meyers
• Women's Murder Club — Jill Bernhardt
• 2006Four Extraordinary Women — Sharon
• 2006Hollis & Rae — Rae Devereauz
• 2006Severance — Maggie
• 2005A Friend of the Family — Alison Shaw
• Stargate Atlantis — Nola
• 2003A Mighty Wind — Girl Klapper
• Dead Like Me — Daisy Adair
• 2003It's Better to Be Wanted for Murder Than Not to Be Wanted at All — Ann Clemons
• Jake 2.0 — Angela Hamilton / Angela Wright
• The Dead Zone — Miranda Ellis
• 24 — Marie Warner
• 2001Come Together — Charlotte Hart, Producer
• 2001Going Greek — Paige Forrester
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — Diane Kentner
• 2000The Calling — Kristie St. Clair
• 2000The Highwayman — Ziggy Watson
• 1999The Manor — Gillian Ravenscroft
• Total Recall 2070 — Elana
• 1998Just the Ticket — Alice / 'Cyclops'
• 1998Nobody Lives Forever — Kimberly Corley
• 1998The Faculty — Marybeth
• 1997Habitat — Deborah Marlowe
• 1997Kitchen Party — Tammy Driscoll
• 1997Moment of Truth: Into the Arms of Danger — Jan
• 1997Suicide Kings — Elise Chasten
• 1996A Kidnapping in the Family — Josie Cooper
• 1996Abduction of Innocence — Laura Rhoads
• 1996For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down — Lucy Bines
• 1996Murder at My Door — Valerie Sanders
• Poltergeist: The Legacy — Tracy Lasker
• 1996Sabrina the Teenage Witch — Freddie
• 1996Susie Q — Janette
• 1996The Halfback of Notre Dame — Jill Volsner
• 1995Best Wishes Mason Chadwick — May
• DarkStalkers — Hairball (voice)
• 1995Ebbie — Martha
• Sliders — Margo Hall
• The Outer Limits — Sarah Hayward, Mona Lisa 37X
• M.A.N.T.I.S. — Teenage Girl
• The X-Files — Andrea
• Highlander: The Series — Julia Renquist
• My Little Pony Tales — Bright Eyes (voice)
• 1992Stay Tuned — Girlfriend #1
• The Odyssey — Vampire
• Hillside — Ashley Frasier
• It — Loni (uncredited)
• The New Adventures of Beany and Cecil — (voice)

Appearances as themselves (4)

• Up Close with Carrie Keagan — Herself
• Pure 24 — Herself
• 2003The Fastest Man in the World — Herself
• Teen Choice Awards — Self