Laurie Holden

Laurie Holden
Holden in 2012
Born	Heather Laurie Holden (1969-12-17) December 17, 1969 (age 49) Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States
Nationality	American-Canadian
Citizenship	United States Canada
Alma mater	McGill University University of California, Los Angeles
Occupation	Actress, producer, activist
Years active	1980–present
Home town	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Parent(s)	Glen Corbett (aka Larry Holden; deceased) Adrienne Ellis
Relatives	Michael Anderson (stepfather; deceased) Christopher Holden (brother) Michael Anderson Jr. (stepbrother)

Heather Laurie Holden (born December 17, 1969) is an American-Canadian actress, producer, model, and human rights activist. She is known for her roles as Marita Covarrubias in The X-Files (1996–2002), Adele Stanton in The Majestic (2001), Cybil Bennett in Silent Hill (2006), Amanda Dumfries in The Mist (2007), Olivia Murray in The Shield (2008), Andrea in The Walking Dead (2010–2013) and Renee in The Americans (2017-2018).

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  1 Early life
  


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  2 Career
  


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  3 Charity work and human rights activism
  


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  4 Filmography
  
  
  
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    4.1 Film
    
  
  
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    4.2 Television
    
  
  
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  5 Theatre
  


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  6 Awards and nominations
  


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  7 References
  


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  8 External links
  

Early life

Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, and raised in Toronto, Ontario,^[1][2] Holden holds dual citizenship in the United States and Canada. After her parents, actors Glen Corbett and Adrienne Ellis, divorced, her mother married director Michael Anderson. Laurie then split her time between Los Angeles and Toronto. She has a younger brother, Christopher Holden, and a half-sister.

Holden received her first film role when she was a young child. While on the set visiting her stepfather, director Michael Anderson, a child actress hired to play Rock Hudson's daughter in The Martian Chronicles never arrived, so Laurie filled in. "All of a sudden, I'm Rock Hudson's daughter." As a teenager, she won The Look of the Year modeling contest in Toronto and was given a minor role as a babysitter in Anderson's comedy Separate Vacations (1986).

After graduating from the Bishop Strachan School, she attended McGill University, where she studied economics and political science.^[3] Holden transferred to University of California, Los Angeles and received a degree in theater and film in 1993.^[4] At UCLA, she was a member of the National Honor Society and received the prestigious Natalie Wood Acting Award. Holden then pursued a master's degree in human rights at Columbia University.^[5]

Career

Early in her career, Holden made a name for herself by co-starring opposite Burt Reynolds in Physical Evidence (1989), Vanessa Redgrave in Young Catherine (1991), and William Shatner in the TV Movie TekWar: TekLab (1994). She also played Mabel Dunham in the TV Movie The Pathfinder (1996) (based on the novel of James Fenimore Cooper). Onstage, she starred in Time and the Conways, written by J. B. Priestley, and The Winter's Tale, based on the play by William Shakespeare. Other stage roles include Regina in Ghosts and Procne in The Love of the Nightingale.

Laurie Holden at San Diego Comic Con in 2007 to promote The Mist

After making various guest appearances on Due South, Murder, She Wrote, and Poltergeist: The Legacy (when she played a dual role), Holden found some success playing a memorable recurring role on the seminal sci-fi series The X-Files: Marita Covarrubias, a mysterious government worker who becomes an informant to Special Agent Fox Mulder, from seasons four through nine (1996–2002). She also had a supporting role, as Mary Travis, opposite Michael Biehn and Ron Perlman, in the CBS TV series based on the MGM classic, The Magnificent Seven (1998–2000) and a role as Debra Campbell on Highlander: The Series.

Some of Holden's most notable roles include starring opposite Jim Carrey in Frank Darabont's film The Majestic (2001) (It was while performing on stage in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, that Holden was discovered by Darabont). As Carrey's long lost love, she received critical acclaim for her performance.^[6] She also co-starred alongside Dean Cain, Jennifer Tilly, and Tim Curry in the Canadian comedy Bailey's Billion$. Other movie roles have included those of Michael Chiklis' character's former love interest in Fantastic Four (2005), Cybil Bennett in Christophe Gans' artistic-horror video game adaptation of Silent Hill (2006),^[7] Amanda Dumfries in The Mist (2007), and Olivia Murray in The Shield.

From 2010 to 2013, she played the role of Andrea, a civil rights attorney and survivor of a global zombie plague in The Walking Dead, an AMC television horror drama series.^[8]
In 2013, she worked on the movie Honeytrap as an executive producer.^[9]
In 2014 she played the role of Ann McGinnis in the third season of Major Crimes. Also in 2014, she co-starred in the movie Dumb and Dumber To, opposite Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels and Kathleen Turner.^[10] She played Adele Pinchelow, the main antagonist of the Farrelly brothers comedy.

In 2015, she appeared as Dr. Hannah Tramble, an ER surgeon, in the third season of Chicago Fire. It was announced Holden would reprise her role as Dr. Tramble in a planned spinoff, Chicago Med. Holden was set to co-star opposite Epatha Merkerson and Yaya Dacosta in the ensemble medical drama. The series is being conceived and written by Chicago Fire creators/executive producers Derek Haas and Michael Brandt.^[11] However, she dropped out of the project for "family reasons".

In 2016, she appeared in The Abolitionists, a documentary film by Darrin Fletcher.^[12] In 2017, Holden joins the cast of The Americans in the fifth season, when she plays Renee.^[13] She has been cast in indie thriller Pyewacket, a movie directed by Adam MacDonald.^[14]

In 2018, Laurie Holden has joined the crime thriller Dragged Across Concrete, starring Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn.

Holden joins the cast of American legal drama television series Proven Innocent (set to premiere in 2019 on Fox), when she plays Greta Bellows.

Charity work and human rights activism

Holden is a founding board member of the Canadian Somaly Mam Foundation,^[15] which campaigns against human trafficking, and an advisory board member of the Somaly Mam Foundation in the U.S.

In 2014, Holden worked with Operation Underground Railroad, a volunteer organization that aims to hunt down and arrest child sex traffickers. The group aided authorities in Cartagena, Colombia, in breaking up a sex-trafficking ring that used drugs to force underage boys and girls into prostitution. The operation resulted in the arrests of 12 people and the rescue of 55 sex-trafficking victims, one just 11 years old.^[16][17]

She also works with the nonprofit Home From Home, which helps HIV-infected children.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1986	Separate Vacations	Karen
1989	Physical Evidence	Matt's girl
1995	Expect No Mercy	Vicki
1996	Past Perfect	Ally Marsey
2001	The Majestic	Adele Stanton
2004	Meet Market	Billy	Uncredited
2005	Bailey's Billion$	Marge Maggs
2005	Fantastic Four	Debbie McIlvane
2006	Silent Hill	Cybil Bennett
2007	The Mist	Amanda Dumfries
2014	Honeytrap[9]	N/A	Executive producer
2014	Dumb and Dumber To	Adele Pinchelow
2016	The Abolitionists	Herself	Documentary
2017	The Time of Their Lives	N/A	Executive producer
2017	Pyewacket	Mrs. Reyes
2018	Arctic Justice: Thunder Squad	Dakota	Voice
2018	Dragged Across Concrete	Melanie Ridgeman

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1980	The Martian Chronicles	Marie Wilder	Television miniseries
1988	Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future	Erin	Episode: "Gemini and Counting"
1991	Young Catherine	Princess Catherine Dashkova	2 episodes
1991	Father Dowling Mysteries	Joyce Morrison/Judith Carswell	Episode: "The Hardboiled Mystery"
1993	Secret Services	Suki	Episode: "Larceny Inc./Reach Out and Rob Someone/Jet Threat"
1993	Scales of Justice	Nancy Oakes	Episode: "Who Killed Sir Harry Oakes?"
1993	Family Passions	Claire	Season 1
1993	Destiny Ridge	Darlene Kubolek	Season 2
1994	TekWar	Rachel Tudor	Episode: "TekLab"
1995	Due South	Jill Kennedy	Episode: "Letting Go"
1995–1996	Highlander: The Series	Debra Campbell	2 episodes
1996	Murder, She Wrote	Sherri Sampson	Episode: "What You Don't Know Can Kill You"
1996	Poltergeist: The Legacy	Cora Jennings / Sarah Browning	Episode: "Thirteenth Generation"
1996	Two	Madeline Reynolds	Episode: "Many Happing Return"
1996	The Pathfinder	Mabel Dunham	Television film
1996–2002	The X-Files	Marita Covarrubias	10 episodes
1997	Dead Man's Gun	Bonnie Lorrine	Episode: "Fool's Gold"
1997	Echo	Scarlett Antonelli	Television film
1997	Alibi	Beth Polasky	Television film
1998–2000	The Magnificent Seven	Mary Travis	18 episodes
2000	The Outer Limits	Susan McLaren	Episode: "Breaking Point"
2000	The Man Who Used to Be Me	Amy Ryan	Television film
2001	Big Sound	Piper Moran	Episode: "Shabbas Bloody Shabbas"
2008	The Shield	Olivia Murray	13 episodes
2010–2013	The Walking Dead	Andrea Harrison	31 episodes
2014–2015	Major Crimes	Ann McGinnis	3 episodes
2015	Chicago Fire	Dr. Hannah Tramble	Episode: "I am the Apocalypse"[18]
2017–2018	The Americans	Renee	12 episodes [13]
2019	Proven Innocent	Greta Bellows	TV Series

Video game

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2004	The X-Files: Resist or Serve	Marita Covarrubias	Voice

Theatre

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  The Only Game in Town (2000), based on the play by Frank D. Gilroy
  


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  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2000), based on the play by Tennessee Williams
  


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  The Love of the Nightingale, based on the play Procne by Timberlake Wertenbaker
  


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  Ghosts, based on the play Regina by Henrik Ibsen
  


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  A Chorus Line, based on the book Kristine by James Kirkwood, Jr. and Nicholas Dante
  


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  The Winter's Tale, based on the play Hermione by William Shakespeare
  


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  Time and the Conways, based on the play Madge by J. B. Priestley
  

Awards and nominations

Holden was named as one of the top 100 Most Creative People in Hollywood in Entertainment Weekly's It List and One of Ten Actors to Watch by Variety. She also won "The Look of The Year" Elite model search in Toronto and was nominated in 1996 for a Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Guest Role in a Dramatic Series for Due South (1994). Laurie is named as one of "Ten Actors To Watch" by Variety in 2002.

She was nominated in 2011 for a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress in Television for the series The Walking Dead.^[19] For her role in this series, she was also nominated in 2011 for the Scream Award for Best Supporting Actress.^[20]

In 2013, Laurie Holden was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress for her work on The Walking Dead and won.^[21]

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result
1986	Look of the Year			Won
1993	Natalie Wood Acting Award	Natalie Wood Acting Award for Best Actress		Won
1996	Gemini Award	Gemini Award for Best Guest Star in Television	Due South	Nominated
2011	Saturn Award	Best Supporting Actress on Television	The Walking Dead	Nominated
2011	Scream Award	Best Supporting Actress on Television	The Walking Dead	Nominated
2012	Satellite Award	Best Cast – Television Series	The Walking Dead	Won
2013	Saturn Award	Best Supporting Actress on Television	The Walking Dead	Won

References

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   ^ Carter, Kelly (February 18, 2001). "Breakout: Laurie Holden". USA Today. Retrieved March 19, 2012.
   


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   ^ Worboy, Martha (August 2014). "On the Cover: Laurie Holden on life in Forest Hill, zombies, and trading horror for comedy". Post City Toronto. Retrieved September 29, 2014.
   


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   ^ "NOTABLE ALUMNI ACTORS". UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. Retrieved September 29, 2014.
   


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   ^ Fall, Christine (November 29, 2011). "Q&A – Laurie Holden (Andrea)". AMC. Retrieved October 17, 2014.
   


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   ^ Mitchell, Elvis. "Movie Review – The Majestic – FILM REVIEW; Amnesiac Recalls His Best Lines". The New York Times. Retrieved February 24, 2012.
   


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   ^ "TV: Casting Rounding Out for Darabont's 'The Walking Dead' - Bloody Disgusting". www.bloody-disgusting.com.
   


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   ^ Barton, Steve (May 5, 2010). "Update: Laurie Holden and Steven Yeun Join The Walking Dead". Bloody Disgusting.
   


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   ^ ^ab "Laurie Holden joins Honeytrap as Executive Producer". Film-News.co.uk.
   


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    ^ https://variety.com/2013/film/news/walking-dead-laurie-holden-dumb-and-dumber-to-1200613635/ : Laurie Holden joins 'Dumb and Dumber To'. Variety
    


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    ^ Andreeva, Nellie. "Laurie Holden Cast In NBC's 'Chicago Med'". deadline.com. Deadline. Retrieved March 11, 2015.
    


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    ^ Ramisetti, Kirthana (October 17, 2014). "'Walking Dead' star Laurie Holden helped rescue Colombian sex slaves". The New York Daily News. Retrieved October 23, 2015.
    


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    ^ ^ab Ausiello, Michael (October 19, 2016). "The Americans Season 5: Laurie Holden Cast as Love Interest for [Spoiler]". TVLine. Retrieved January 10, 2016.
    


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    ^ Vlessing, Etan (October 25, 2016). "'Walking Dead' Alum Laurie Holden to Star in Indie Thriller 'Pyewacket'". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
    


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    ^ Actress Laurie Holden speaks out against human trafficking Archived July 27, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
    


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    ^ "Walking Dead Actor Laurie Holden (Andrea) took part in dangerous rescue mission". Undead Walking. ABC News. October 15, 2014.
    


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    ^ Smith, Candace; Pinedo-Burns, Aristides (October 14, 2014). "Inside a Dangerous Mission to Rescue Children in Colombia's Sex Trafficking Trade". ABC News. Retrieved October 17, 2014.
    


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    ^ Andreeva, Nellie (February 20, 2015). "Laurie Holden Cast In NBC's 'Chicago Med'".
    


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    ^ "The 37th Saturn Award Nominations". Archived from the original on February 29, 2012. Retrieved February 24, 2012.
    


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    ^ "Best Supporting Actress: Jaimie Alexander, Laurie Holden, Mila Kunis, Helen Mirren, Ellen Wong". Spike. Archived from the original on March 11, 2012. Retrieved February 24, 2012.
    


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    ^ Watts, Sophie (February 21, 2013). "'The Walking Dead' gets 4 nominations for 39th Saturn Awards" Archived February 27, 2013, at the Wayback Machine.. Hypable.
    

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