Laura Elizabeth Innes (born August 16, 1957) is an American actress and television director. She starred as Dr. Kerry Weaver in the NBC medical drama ER from 1995 to 2007 and reprised her role from 2008 to 2009 in the final season. Her performance earned her three Primetime Emmy nominations. She also starred as Sophia in the short-lived NBC thriller The Event from 2010 to 2011. She was introduced to professional theater by her father, who often took the family to the Stratford Festival of Canada in Stratford, Ontario. With the support of her father, she attended Northwestern University and earned a degree in theater. She went on to appeared in several theater productions before her film debut in Brian De Palma's The Fury (1978), played the role of Jody. She then played the daughter to Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara in the short-lived television sitcom The Stiller & Meara Show (1986). In the Fall of 1995, she joined the medical drama sitcom ER (1994) in its second season.

Filmography

• Silo — Senator Thurman
• 2022North Star — Jess Broderick
• 2019South of Bix — Mom
• 2018Please Stand By — Ticket Agent #1
• Mr. Mercedes — Director
• Animal Kingdom — Director
• Colony — Karen
• 2016The Good Neighbor — Caroline
• Sneaky Pete — Director
• How to Get Away with Murder — Lynne Birkhead, Director
• The Affair — Director
• Awake — Director
• 2012Model Minority — Judge Keaton
• Prime Suspect — Director
• The Event — Sophia Maguire
• Warehouse 13 — Emma Jinks
• Journeyman — Director
• Brothers and Sisters — Director
• Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip — Director
• Grey's Anatomy — Director
• House — Director
• TV Revolution
• Presidio Med — Director
• 2001Taking Back Our Town — Pat Melancon
• 1999Can't Stop Dancing — Landlady
• 1999The Price of a Broken Heart — Lynn
• The West Wing — Director
• 1998Deep Impact — Beth Stanley
• The Louie Show — Sandy Sincic
• 1995Just Like Dad — Rose
• 1995See Jane Run — Mrs. Klinger
• ER — Kerry Weaver, Director
• My So-Called Life — Cheryl Fleck
• Party of Five — Liz
• The Good Life — Actress
• 1993And the Band Played On — Hemophiliac Representative
• Bakersfield P.D. — Darcy Wilks
• Good Advice — Annie
• 1993Telling Secrets — Angelyn Graham
• 1993Torch Song — Ronnie
• Brooklyn Bridge
• Rugrats — Dr. Brander (voice)
• Wings — Bunny Mather
• Hey Dude — Miss Andrews, Mrs. Fleeman
• 1989Jacob Have I Loved — Mrs. Rice
• 1978The Fury — Jody
• Another World
• One Smart Fellow — Lizzie

Appearances as themselves (2)

• 2002NBC 75th Anniversary Special — Self
• The View — Self