Born:
October 28, 1963
in
Bristol, Pennsylivania
Best Known For:
Playing the love interest in Dumb & Dumber.
Early-life:
Born Lauren Michael Holly in Bristol, Pennsylivania, on October 28, 1963. Her father is an English literature, her mother teaches art history. Lauren's younger brother, Nick, is a literary agent. She had another brother, Alex, who died in a fire in 1992 when he was 14. She graduated from Geneva High School in New York where she was a cheerleader, before attending the prestigious Sarah Lawrence College. She left there in 1985 with a degree in English literature.
Career:
After graduating, Lauren moved to Los Angeles to pursue her dream of becoming an actress, making her TV debut in Hill Street Blues. Less than a year later, she landed a role on the soap opera All My Children. Other TV credits include Chicago Hope and Picket Fences, and she's appeared in a number of films including What Women Want, No Looking Back, Any Given Sunday, Sabrina, Turbulence, Beautiful Girls, Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, A Smile Like Yours, The Adventures of Ford Fairlane, Down Periscope, Entropy and The Last Producer. On the small screen, she has starred in NCIS, Leverage, Rookie Blue, Alphas and Motive.
Quote:
"I've never had that star aura."
Trivia:
Holly became a Canadian citizen in 2008.