
Person
Laura Kirk
Acting
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).
Known for

Third Watch
Audrey

The Time Machine
Flower Seller

Earthwork
Janis Herd

American Honey
Laura

At First Sight
Betsy Ernst

Lisa Picard Is Famous
Lisa Picard

Too Tired to Die
Streetwalker #2
No Margrettes
Josie

The Only Good Indian
Miss Harris

The Sublime and Beautiful
2014
Filmography
- 2020The StylistFrankie
- 2018Parallel ChordsMae Archer
- 2018William Allen White: What's the Matter with KansasSelf
- 2017The Vetting
- 2017The TreeMarge McMillan
- 2016American HoneyLaura
- 2015No MargrettesJosie
- 2014The Sublime and Beautiful
- 2011EarthworkJanis Herd
- 2009The Only Good IndianMiss Harris
- 2008Bunker HillHalle
- 2004Murder Without ConvictionAlberta Talley
- 2002The Time MachineFlower Seller
- 2000Lisa Picard Is FamousLisa Picard
- 1999Third WatchAudrey
- 1999At First SightBetsy Ernst
- 1998Too Tired to DieStreetwalker #2
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