Laura Kirk

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Female

Laura Kirk

Biography

Laura Kirk is an award winning filmmaker with credits as a producer and actor in many films including Andrea Arnold’s American Honey: Cannes 2016, The Sublime and Beautiful : Slamdance 2014. A veteran on the independent film festival circuit, Kirk co-wrote and starred one of the first digital films: Lisa Picard is Famous: Cannes 2000. It is included in John Gaspard’s book “Fast, Cheap and Under Control ...Lessons Learned from the Greatest Low Budget Movies of All Time.” Kirk began her career on stage in New York off-Broadway and regionally where she was also a teaching artist in homeless shelters and in schools for Dreamyard Drama Project. Major training in Meisner was with Wynn Handman and Suzanne Esper and improvisation with Alan Arkin. Commercials include national campaigns for Block Advisors, Verizon, Wrangler Jeans, Jeep and Dr. Pepper. Laura is a co-founder of the mentoring group “Women of Lawrence Film” where she puts into practice her interests in remedying gender inequity in film. Her research on Eve Unsell will be published in the upcoming "When Women Wrote Hollywood" (Forthcoming McFarland).

Known For

Actor

2023
Homecoming

as Madeline

2020
The Stylist

as Frankie

2018
Parallel Chords

as Mae Archer

2017
The Tree

as Marge McMillan

2016
2015
No Margrettes

as Josie

2011
Earthwork

as Janis Herd

2009
The Only Good Indian

as Miss Harris

2008
Bunker Hill

as Halle

2004
Murder Without Conviction

as Alberta Talley

2002
The Time Machine

as Flower Seller

2000
Lisa Picard Is Famous

as Lisa Picard

1999
At First Sight

as Betsy Ernst

1999
Third Watch

as Audrey

Writer

2000