Laura Harris

Laura Elizabeth Harris (born November 20, 1976) is a Canadian actress who appeared in a variety of roles in movies and on television. 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. She last appeared in a recurring role in the 2021 children's series Scaredy Cats. Primarily credited as Laura Harris, over her career she has also been credited as Elizabeth Harris or Laura E. Harris.

Early life

Harris's parents were schoolteachers. 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 Harris 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.

Career

Harris is known for her roles as Grim Reaper Daisy Adair in the cable series Dead Like Me and as Marie Warner in the spy drama 24. Her film career dates back to a 1992 appearance in the comedy Stay Tuned. She appeared as Marybeth Louise Hutchinson in The Faculty in 1998.

In 2006, Laura Harris appeared as Maggie in a British-German horror film called Severance, directed by Christopher Smith, and written by Smith and James Moran.

In the summer of 2009, she co-starred in the internationally co-produced science fiction series Defying Gravity as Zoe Barnes.

She has also performed voice-overs in animated TV shows including The New Adventures of Beany and Cecil, Astonishing X-Men, Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H. and My Little Pony Tales.

While she never officially retired from acting, Harris 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, she performed the role of Willow Ward on the Netflix show Scaredy Cats, appearing in 3 episodes. Later in the same year Harris appeared in the Lifetime Channel movie Gone Mom.

Filmography

Film

Television

External links

• at IMDb