Laura Innes

Laura Innes

Nascimento : 1957-08-16, Pontiac, Michigan, USA

História

Laura Innes was born August 16, 1957 in Pontiac, Michigan. She was introduced to professional theater by her father, who often took the family to the Stratford Festival of Canada in Stratford, Ontario. With the support of her father, she attended Northwestern University and earned a degree in theater. She went on to appeared in several theater productions before her film debut in Brian De Palma's The Fury (1978), played the role of Jody. She then played the daughter to Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara in the short-lived television sitcom The Stiller & Meara Show (1986). In the Fall of 1995, she joined the medical drama sitcom ER (1994) in its second season. She played the part of the experienced but abrasive Dr. Kerry Weaver, Her performance earned her three Primetime Emmy nominations.

Perfil

Laura Innes
Laura Innes

Filmes

North Star
A rural rancher sacrifices everything to care for his dying husband as his sister-in-law and a pair of televangelists peddle in shame, fear, and division.
South of Bix
Mom
Molly returns home to say goodbye to her dying grandfather, from whom she's been estranged.
Tudo que Quero
Ticket Agent #1
Wendy (Dakota Fanning), uma jovem mulher portadora de autismo, consegue driblar sua cuidadora e escapa com um único objetivo em mente: entregar seu manuscrito para concorrer em um competição de escrita.
O Bom Vizinho
Caroline
Uma dupla de crianças travessas do ensino médio criam a ilusão de uma assombração sobre um vizinho Suspeito. Embora mantendo a cada reação sob vigilância, eles vêem muito mais do que esperava.
Model Minority
Judge Keaton
Kayla, an underprivileged Japanese American 16 year old, endangers her promising future as an aspiring artist when she becomes involved with a drug dealer.
Taking Back Our Town
Pat Melancon
A true story about a concerned housewife, Pat Melancon, who tries to block Shintech, a massive Japanese petrochemical conglomerate, from building a plant in her toxic township already known as "cancer alley". Pat and a few newly recruited, fledgling activitsts face the full force of Shintech's wealth and influence peddling, which has bought the cooperation of the government from the local level all the way up to the Governor's office.
The Price of a Broken Heart
Lynn
Fact-based story about a landmark legal battle. A woman (Park Overall) learns that her husband has been having a very open affair with his secretary (Laura Innes) and has promised marriage. The wife sues for divorce and also sues the secretary based on an obscure law on alienation of affection, which was created to protect married couples from homewreckers. This sets a new court room consideration, as the culpability of the other woman must be defended and removes from consideration the fault of the married partners.
Can't Stop Dancing
Landlady
A Topeka, Kansas fun park dance troupe led by a 260 pound dancer (Ben Zook) learns that the park is going to close. Their leader convinces the group, now named "The Stupendous Six", to join him in a painted up bus and to hit the road to find the big time. The Six compete against other dancers to win a chance to compete in the grand finale at the Little Miss Orange County Beauty Pageant. The other members of the Six are Melanie Hutsell as an airhead, Margaret Cho as a oral fixated sex maniac, Brett Paesel as the leader's homosexual lover, Bruce Daniels as the African-American member with a penchant for misuse of black slang, and Michael Irpino as another more stereotypical gay dancer. Lots of cameos from tv stars occur in the various dance numbers. But this comedy does take most of its cues from "The Full Monty" rather than from other major dance films.
Impacto Profundo
Beth Stanley
Um astrônomo-mirim e seu professor acidentalmente descobrem que um cometa com 11 mil metros de diâmetro vai colidir com a Terra, mas um dos descobridores morre em um desastre de automóvel. Após um ano, um repórter tentando investigar um possível escândalo sexual chega à conclusão de que a "amante" é o cometa, que está prestes a se chocar com nosso planeta. Se isto vier a acontecer os danos causados serão incalculáveis e a vida animal e vegetal em pouco tempo deixará de existir. No entanto, uma equipe formada por americanos e russos planeja colocar detonadores nucleares, para fragmentar o cometa e salvar a Terra.
Just Like Dad
Rose
Embarrassed because he perceives his father as dull, a creative boy invents himself a new, more exciting one and finds the popularity he craves.
See Jane Run
Mrs. Klinger
Jane is a woman who does not remember her husband nor her daughter who has died some years ago because of a severe amnesia. As she suffers this loss of memory she has some paranormal sensations feeling that something strange and terrible will happen...
E a Vida Continua
Hemophiliac Representative
Baseado no livro de Randy Shilts o filme retrata os primeiros anos da AIDS nos Estados Unidos, desde o início das mortes em São Francisco, até o descobrimento do vírus HIV. Uma comovedora e iluminadora crônica dos nossos tempos. Com um elenco cheio de nomes conhecidos, foi um dos primeiros filmes a falar da doença. Corajosa e inesquecível história, que nos fala dos desafios da ciência, da manipulação da mídia, da corrupção, do engano, da tragédia e do triunfo.
Telling Secrets
Angelyn Graham
Through a series of elaborate schemes, a wealthy woman arranges for the murder of her husband's mistress and then takes steps so that the crime won't be traced back to her. The detective investigating the murder soon realizes her role in it, and sets out to find a way to pin the murder on her.
Torch Song
Ronnie
Jacob Have I Loved
Mrs. Rice
In the early 1940s, a depressed young woman, who's been eclipsed all of her life by her beautiful twin sister, tries to overcome her low self-esteem with help from a crusty old sea captain.
A Fúria
Jody
Um elaborado jogo de controle mental inicia-se quando o filho de um agente do governo é sequestrado por causa de seus poderes psicocinéticos. Desesperado para encontrá-lo, seu pai contata uma garota com habilidades psíquicas semelhantes às de seu filho. Ela logo descobre que o rapaz é prisioneiro de um órgão secreto do governo dos EUA e que está sendo utilizado para perigosas experiências mentais - e programado para matar.