From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Laurie O'Brien (born February 16, 1951 in Colorado) is an American actress, who started her career in Los Angeles in 1982 with her role in Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann. She is best known for voicing Baby Piggy on the 1980s Saturday morning cartoon Jim Henson's Muppet Babies from 1984-1991 & the CTW animated series Cro as Ivana the mammoth. As an on-camera actress, O'Brien has guest starred on the soap opera Santa Barbara as a hooker as well as other numerous TV series including Trapper John, M.D., NYPD Blue, Matlock, Chicago Hope, ER, CSI, CSI Miami, 7th Heaven, Reasonable Doubts, Shark, Three Rivers, Detroit 1-8-7, and L.A. Law on which she played a woman on trial for killing her rapist. TV movies include The Defiant_Ones, Too Young to Die?, Infidelity, Children of the Night, Convicted, and One More Mountain. Movies include Bottle Shock in which she played Christopher Pine's mother. Laurie has an extensive background in theater winning three major awards for her lead roles in Mary Barnes, Savage in Limbo and Times Like These.

Filmography

• The Pitt — Vera Clymer
• 2022Pie in the Sky — Dory
• Complete Works — Deborah Hünterschmidt
• 2008Bottle Shock — Laura
• 2008Little Chenier — Faye
• Shark — Amanda Morton
• 2005Invasion — Reporter
• 2004Around the Bend — Ruth
• CSI: Miami — Mary Hinkle
• 2001Mockingbird Don't Sing — Beverly Glazer
• The Division — Connie Hicks
• Boston Public — Melanie Fitzgerald
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — Mrs. Meyers
• Strong Medicine — Arlene Billings
• Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction — Paula Myrtle (segment "The Land")
• 7th Heaven — Carol
• Chicago Hope — Myra Devaney
• ER — Mrs. Richards
• 1994One More Mountain — Elizabeth Graves
• Spider-Man — Genevieve (voice)
• Vanishing Son — Sandra Garbett
• Cro — Ivanna (voice)
• 1992Gas Food Lodging — Thelma
• 1990Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue — Mom / Baby Miss Piggy (voice)
• 1990Too Young to Die — Wanda Bradley Sledge
• 1989The Monster Bed — (voice)
• 1987Harry and the Hendersons — Screaming Woman
• 1987Infidelity — Eileen
• 1986Convicted — Audrey Delaney
• L.A. Law — Megan Penny
• Matlock — Barbara Warren
• 1986The Adventures of the American Rabbit — Bunny O'Hare (voice)
• 1986The Defiant Ones — Pauline
• The Real Ghostbusters — Vanna (voice)
• 1985Obsessed with a Married Woman — Gail
• Shadow Chasers — Vicky Pasternak
• 1984Calamity Jane — Mamie
• Muppet Babies — Baby Piggy (voice)
• Dungeons & Dragons — (Voice)
• Knight Rider — Linda Groves
• St. Elsewhere — Mrs. Morgen
• 1982Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann — Terry

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 1984Saturday's the Place! — Self (uncredited)