Laura Kirk
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
Credits
- 2023 · Homecoming as Madeline
- 2020 · The Stylist as Frankie
- 2018 · Parallel Chords as Mae Archer
- 2018 · William Allen White: What's the Matter with Kansas as
- 2017 · The Vetting as
- 2017 · The Tree as Marge McMillan
- 2016 · American Honey as Laura
- 2015 · No Margrettes as Josie
- 2014 · The Sublime and Beautiful as
- 2011 · Earthwork as Janis Herd
- 2009 · The Only Good Indian as Miss Harris
- 2008 · Bunker Hill as Halle
- 2004 · Murder Without Conviction as Alberta Talley
- 2002 · The Time Machine as Flower Seller
- 2000 · Lisa Picard Is Famous as Lisa Picard
- 1999 · Third Watch as Audrey
- 1999 · At First Sight as Betsy Ernst