Laura Harris

Primarily credited as Laura Harris, over her career she has also been credited as Elizabeth Harris or Laura E.

• Name — Laura Harris • Born — 20 November 1976 • Birthplace — Surrey, British Columbia, Canada • Occupation — Actress • Birth Name — Laura Elizabeth Harris • Other Names — Elizabeth Harris, Laura E. Harris • Years Active — 1988–present

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.

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.

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1988 — data-sort-value="New Adventures of Beany and Cecil, The" | The New Adventures of Beany and Cecil — (voice) — Recurring • 1990 — It — Loni — TV miniseries • 1990 — Funky Fables — Wendy (voice) — Episode: "Peter Pan" Recurring • 1991–1993 — Hillside (aka Fifteen) — Ashley Frasier — TV series • 1992 — My Little Pony Tales — Bright Eyes (voice) — 21 episodes • 1994 — The — Vampire — Episode: "Night Life" • 1994 — Highlander: The Series — Julia Renquist — Episode: "Obsession" • 1994 — M.A.N.T.I.S. — Teenage Girl — Episode: "Through the Dark Circle" • 1995 — The — Andrea — Episode: "Die Hand Die Verletzt" • 1995 — Ebbie — Martha Cratchet — TV movie • 1996 — For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down — Lucy Bines — TV movie • 1996 — The — Jill Volsner — TV movie • 1996 — Susie Q — Jannete — TV movie • 1996 — A — Josie Cooper — TV movie • 1996 — Sabrina the Teenage Witch — Freddie — TV movie • 1996 — Sliders — Margo Hall — Episode: "The Young and the Relentless" • 1996 — Abduction of Innocence — Laura Rhoads — TV movie • 1996 — Murder at My Door — Valerie Sanders — TV movie • 1997 — The — Sarah Hayward — Episode: "Feasibility Study" • 1997 — Moment of Truth: Into the Arms of Danger — Jan — TV movie • 1997 — Poltergeist: The Legacy — Tracy Lasker — Episode: "Rough Beast" • 1998 — Nobody Lives Forever — Kimberly Corley — TV movie • 1999 — Total Recall 2070 — Elana — Episode: "Nothing Like the Real Thing" • 2001 — The — Mona Lisa 37X — Episode: "Mona Lisa" • 2002–2003 — 24 — Marie Warner — 14 episodes • 2003 — Jake 2.0 — Angela Hamilton / Angela Wright — Episode: "The Spy Who Really Liked Me" • 2003–2004 — Dead Like Me — Daisy Adair — 24 episodes • 2005 — data-sort-value="Friend of the Family, A" | A Friend of the Family — Alison Shaw — TV movie • 2005 — The — Miranda Ellis — Episode: "Vanguard" Episode: "Saved" • 2006 — The — Miranda Ellis — Episode: "Forbidden Fruit" • 2006 — Hollis & Rae — Rae Devereauz — TV pilot • 2006 — Four Extraordinary Women — Sharon — TV movie • 2006 — Stargate Atlantis — Nola — Episode: "The Game" • 2007 — CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — Diane Kentner — Episode: "Fallen Idols" • 2007–2008 — Women's Murder Club — Jill Bernhardt — 13 episodes • 2009 — Defying Gravity — Zoe Barnes — 13 episodes • 2010 — Merlin and the Book of Beasts — Avlynn — TV movie • 2010 — Warehouse 13 — Lauren Andrews — Episode: "Merge with Caution" • 2011 — Snowmageddon — Beth Miller — TV movie • 2012 — Astonishing X-Men — Kitty Pryde / Shadowcat (voice) — 3 episodes • 2012 — An — Det. Jennifer Dobson — TV movie • 2014 — Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H. — Elloe Kaifi (voice) — Episode: "Planet Leader" • 2015 — Whole Day Down — Ester — Episode: "La Cage Aux Artiste" • 2021 — Scaredy Cats — Willow Ward — 3 episodes