Laurie Holden Profile, Age, Wiki, Weight, Family, Affairs, Biography & More

Laurie Holden Profile, Age, Wiki, Weight, Family, Affairs, Biography & More

Heather Laurie Holden is a Canadian-American actress, producer and human rights activist, 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, 2020), Renee in The Americans (2017-2018) and the Crimson Countess in Vought News Network: Seven on 7 with Cameron Coleman (2021) and The Boys (2022).

Born in Los Angeles and raised in Toronto, Holden holds dual American and Canadian citizenship. 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.

Holden received her first film role when she was young. While her stepfather was making The Martian Chronicles, she visited him on set. A child actress hired to play Rock Hudson’s daughter never showed up, so Laurie filled in. As a teenager, she won the Look of the Year modeling competition in Toronto and was given a minor role as a babysitter in Anderson’s comedy Separate Vacations (1986).

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

Holden is a supporter of women’s rights, racial justice and actively campaigns against sex trafficking.

Holden is a founding board member of the Canadian Somaly Mam Foundation, which campaigns against human trafficking, and a member of the advisory board of the Somaly Mam Foundation in the United States.

In 2014, Holden worked with Operation Underground Railroad, a volunteer organization that aims to track down and arrest child sex traffickers. The group helped authorities in Cartagena, Colombia arrest five sex traffickers and rescue underage girls.