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Laura Elizabeth Harris (born November 20, 1976) is a Canadian actress.^[1]

Early life[link]

Harris was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, the daughter of school teachers. She began acting in radio dramas and animation series when she was five years old. As a child Harris was educated at Crofton House School and attended college through UC correspondence. After having worked professionally in Vancouver as a television actress for nearly 14 years, Harris broke into the realm of feature films as a teenager.

Career[link]

Harris is known for her roles as Grim Reaper Daisy Adair in the cable series Dead Like Me and as Marie Warner in the spy drama 24. Her film career dates back to 1990 when she appeared in an adaptation of Stephen King's It. She appeared as Marybeth in The Faculty in 1998, and has since gone on to form her own production company with a friend, Rocket Chicken International Pictures, which has produced the film Come Together in which Harris played a leading role. She is sometimes credited as Elizabeth Harris and Laura E. Harris. In the summer of 2009 she co-starred in the internationally co-produced science fiction series Defying Gravity as Zoe Barnes. Harris was invited to be part of the cast of the comedy series Great Day in october of 2011. Laura is married to her cousin Matt Harris, who is the Business Office Manager at Megarepo.com.

She has also done voice-overs in animated TV shows including The New Adventures of Beany and Cecil, Darkstalkers and My Little Pony Tales. She also provided the voice for Selene in Underworld: Endless War, (along with all the other female voices).

Filmography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Laura Harris at the Internet Movie Database

Ron Livingston
Livingston in May 2010
Born	Ronald Joseph Livingston (1967-06-05) June 5, 1967 (age 45) Cedar Rapids, Iowa, U.S.
Alma mater	Yale University
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1992–present
Spouse	Rosemarie DeWitt (2009–present)

Ronald Joseph "Ron" Livingston (born June 5, 1967)^{[1][not in citation given]} is an American film and television actor. His roles include a disaffected corporate employee (Peter Gibbons) in the film Office Space, a sardonic writer (Jack Berger) in a short-term relationship with Carrie Bradshaw in the TV show Sex and the City, and Captain Lewis Nixon in the miniseries Band of Brothers. In 2006, he starred as FBI negotiator Matt Flannery in the Fox series Standoff, co-starring Rosemarie DeWitt, and he was an ad spokesman for Sprint Nextel. In 2009 he portrayed flight engineer Maddux Donner in the series Defying Gravity, which was cancelled after a single season.^[2]

Early life[link]

Livingston was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the son of Linda, a Lutheran pastor, and Kurt Livingston, an aerospace engineer. His younger brother John, is also an actor; sister Jennifer Livingston is a TV news personality at WKBT in LaCrosse, Wisconsin. He graduated from Marion High School in Marion, Iowa and attended Yale University, where he received B.A. degrees in Theater and English. Livingston relocated to Chicago and became involved in the local theater scene.

Career[link]

Livingston's first film role was in 1992, in Dolly Parton's Straight Talk. He moved to Los Angeles and was cast in supporting roles in Some Folks Call it a Sling Blade and The Low Life. Livingston landed his first role in a major film in 1996's Swingers. He played the male lead in Office Space, which co-starred Jennifer Aniston and was written and directed by Mike Judge. He also appeared in HBO's Band of Brothers as Captain Lewis Nixon opposite Donnie Wahlberg and Damian Lewis. Going beyond nice-guy roles, Livingston played a Hollywood agent in Adaptation (2002); a weaselly Ivy League upstart to Alec Baldwin's casino boss in The Cooler (2003); and teachers in Winter Solstice and Pretty Persuasion (both 2005). He also appeared as Jack Berger, Carrie's boyfriend in the sixth season of Sex and the City, as well as in the episode "TB or Not TB" of House.

On November 9, 2007, the indie film Holly premiered, starring Ron Livingston in his first turn to film drama. It tells the story of a Vietnamese girl trafficked into the sex trade in Cambodia. Ron plays Patrick, a shady card shark who becomes determined to save Holly from her ill-destined fate.

Summer 2007 saw Livingston on the off-Broadway stage in the world premiere of Neil LaBute's In A Dark Dark House, produced by MCC Theater, alongside Frederick Weller and Louisa Krause. The show ran May 16 through July 27, 2007, at the Lucille Lortel Theatre in New York City.

In 2010, Livingston co-starred in the Jay Roach comedy Dinner for Schmucks.^[3] Also in 2010, Livingston created a parody of the Keyboard Cat, "Keyboard Cat Redux", after the original became a hit on the popular website YouTube.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life[link]

Livingston and his Standoff co-star Rosemarie DeWitt began a relationship after meeting each other on the show.^[4] After dating for three years, they were married on November 2, 2009, in San Francisco.^[5] He was previously engaged to Lisa Sheridan.^[6]

Filmography and television appearances[link]

• Straight Talk (1992), Soldier
• Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade (1994)
• The Low Life (1995), Chad
• Townies (1996), Ryan – TV series
• Swingers (1996), Rob
• Campfire Tales (1997), Rick
• Two Ninas (1999), Marty Sachs
• Office Space (1999), Peter Gibbons
• Body Shots (1999), Trent
• Beat (2000), Allen Ginsberg
• Band of Brothers (2001), Captain Lewis Nixon – TV miniseries
• The Practice (2001–2002), Assistant D.A. Alan Lowe – TV series
• Buying the Cow (2002), Tyler Carter Bellows
• Adaptation. (2002), Marty Bowen
• Sex and the City (2002–2003), Jack Berger – TV series
• King of the Ants (2003), Eric Gatley
• 44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out (2003), Donnie Anderson
• The Cooler (2003), Larry Sokolov
• Little Black Book (2004), Derek
• Pretty Persuasion (2005), Mr. Anderson
• Family Guy Presents Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story (2005), Lackluster Video Clerk
• House (2005), Dr. Sebastian Charles – TV series, in the episode "TB or Not TB"
• Winter Solstice (2005), Mr. Bricker
• Relative Strangers (2006), Richard Clayton
• Standoff (2006), Matt Flannery – TV series
• Brothers in Arms: The Untold Story of the 502 (2006), hosting as himself – History Channel documentary
• Nightmares and Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King (2006), Howard Fornoy – TV series, in the episode "The End of the Whole Mess"
• American Crude (2006), Johnny
• Holly (2006), Patrick
• Music Within (2007), Richard Pimentel
• The Time Traveler's Wife (2009), Gomez
• Defying Gravity (2009), Maddux Donner – TV series
• WWII in HD (TV) (2009), Voice of Lt. Charles Scheffel
• Dinner for Schmucks (2010), Caldwell
• Going the Distance (2010), Will
• Game Change (2012), Mark Wallace
• The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012), Franklin Crudstaff
• Keyboard Cat Redux (2012), Cat

References[link]

External links[link]

• Ron Livingston at the Internet Movie Database
• Ron Livingston at the TCM Movie Database