Laura Fraser

Actor: Laura Fraser

Occupation: Actor
Active: '90s-2000s
Major Genres: Drama, Comedy Drama
Career Highlights: The Boys Are Back, Small Faces, The Flying Scotsman
First Major Screen Credit: Small Faces (1995)

Biography

A native of Glasgow, Scottish actress Laura Fraser first came to the attention of international audiences with her work in Gillies MacKinnon's 1995 Small Faces. A coming-of-age drama set in a rough Glasgow neighborhood in the 1960s, it featured Fraser as the girlfriend of a local gangster, and the acclaim the film received contained praise for Fraser's tough, vivacious performance. She went on to do starring work in a series of British films, most of which failed to do justice to her talent. In 1999 Fraser was chosen as part of a high-profile cast to star as Lavinia in Titus, Julie Taymor's iconoclastic screen adaptation of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus. The film received mixed reviews on both sides of the ocean, but a number of reviewers did note that Fraser more than held her own alongside such established stars as Anthony Hopkins and Jessica Lange. After a brief turn in the British post-Beavis and Butthead brain cell ripper Kevin & Perry Go Large, Fraser traveled back in time for the popular joustfest A Knight's Tale. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, All Movie Guide

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Laura Fraser
Born	24 July 1976 (1976-07-24) (age 33) Glasgow, Scotland
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1996–present
Spouse(s)	Karl Geary

Laura Fraser (born 24 July 1976 in Glasgow) is a Scottish actress.

1 Early life
2 Career
3 Personal life
4 Filmography
5 References
6 External links

Early life

Fraser is the daughter of Rose, a college lecturer and nurse, and Alister Fraser, a scriptwriter who also worked in business.^[1] She attended Hillhead High School and is a former member of the Scottish Youth Theatre.

Career

Fraser's first big break was playing Door, in the BBC's dark fantasy series Neverwhere in 1996. She also starred in the 1998 BBC film The Tribe with Joely Richardson and Anna Friel, and played Lavinia in Titus (1999). Other notable film appearances were A Knight's Tale and Vanilla Sky (both in 2001). She has starred in the BBC period drama serials He Knew He Was Right (2004), Casanova (2005) and Reichenbach Falls (2007). In 2007, she appeared in the ITV series by Danny Brocklehurst called Talk to Me, in which she played the female lead, Claire Bellington.

Most recently, Fraser starred in the title role of Florence Nightingale a TV movie first broadcast on BBC One during the prime-time spot on 1 June 2008.

Fraser has twice worked with Rupert Penry-Jones: in Virtual Sexuality (1999) and Casanova.

Personal life

In 2003 she married Irish-American actor and businessman Karl Geary; they have one daughter.

Filmography

Small Faces (1996)
Neverwhere (1996)
Left Luggage (1998)
The Man in the Iron Mask (1998)
Divorcing Jack (1998)
Virtual Sexuality (1999)
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? (1999)
A Christmas Carol (1999)
Titus (1999)
Kevin & Perry Go Large (2000)
A Knight's Tale (2001)
Vanilla Sky (2001)
Den of Lions (2003)
Devil's Gate (2003)
16 Years of Alcohol (2003)
Coney Island Baby (2003)
Iron Jawed Angels (2004)
Casanova (2005)
Nina's Heavenly Delights (2006)
The Flying Scotsman (2006)
Talk to Me (2007)
The Passion (2007)
Cuckoo (2008)
Florence Nightingale (2008)
The Boys Are Back (2009)

References

^ FilmReference.com — Laura Fraser Biography (1976–)

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