Laura Kirk
Actor
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).
Filmography
American Honey
as Laura 2016
At First Sight
as Betsy Ernst 1999
The Stylist
as Frankie 2020
Lisa Picard Is Famous
as Lisa Picard 2000
Too Tired to Die
as Streetwalker #2 1998
Parallel Chords
as Mae Archer 2018
Murder Without Conviction
as Alberta Talley 2004
The Sublime and Beautiful
2014
The Only Good Indian
as Miss Harris 2009
The Tree
as Marge McMillan 2017
Earthwork
as Janis Herd 2011
Bunker Hill
as Halle 2008
The Vetting
2017
No Margrettes
as Josie 2015