Laura Kirk
Actor
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
The Time Machine
March 4, 2002
American Honey
September 30, 2016
At First Sight
January 15, 1999
The Stylist
September 26, 2020
Lisa Picard Is Famous
May 14, 2000
Too Tired to Die
August 8, 1998
Murder Without Conviction
February 12, 2004
Parallel Chords
October 26, 2018
The Sublime and Beautiful
June 6, 2014
The Only Good Indian
December 1, 2009
The Tree
April 1, 2017
Earthwork
May 20, 2011
Acting16
- 2020The Stylist as Frankie
- 2018Parallel Chords as Mae Archer
- 2018William Allen White: What's the Matter with Kansas as Self
- 2017The Vetting
- 2017The Tree as Marge McMillan
- 2016American Honey as Laura
- 2015No Margrettes as Josie
- 2014The Sublime and Beautiful
- 2011Earthwork as Janis Herd
- 2009The Only Good Indian as Miss Harris