Laura Kirk

Born: None

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).


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The Time Machine

as Flower Seller
Released: 2002-03-04

Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years...

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American Honey

as Laura
Released: 2016-09-30

A teenage girl with nothing to lose joins a traveling magazine sales crew, and gets caught up in...

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The Stylist

as Frankie
Released: 2020-09-26

Claire is a lonely hairstylist who secretly murders and scalps her clients. When Olivia makes...

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At First Sight

as Betsy Ernst
Released: 1999-01-15

A blind man has an operation to regain his sight at the urging of his girlfriend and must deal...

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The Sublime and Beautiful

as uncredited
Released: 2014-06-06

David Conrad is a college professor and sometimes philanderer raising three children in a small...

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Murder Without Conviction

as Alberta Talley
Released: 2004-02-12

Recently released from her vows as a nun, Christine Bennett is discovering "life on the...

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Earthwork

as Janis Herd
Released: 2011-05-20

In 1994, real-life crop artist Stan Herd traveled from Kansas to Manhattan's Upper West Side to...

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Lisa Picard Is Famous

as Lisa Picard
Released: 2000-05-14

A documentarian decides to follow the career of New York actress Lisa Picard, believing she is...

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Parallel Chords

as Mae Archer
Released: 2018-10-26

A young violinist struggles to assert her individuality amidst the intense pressure of her...

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The Tree

as Marge McMillan
Released: 2017-04-01

Inspired by an actual friendship between the director's mother and his mother's best friend,...

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The Only Good Indian

as Miss Harris
Released: 2009-12-01

Set in Kansas during the early 1900s, a teen-aged Native American boy is taken from his family...

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William Allen White: What's the Matter with Kansas

as uncredited
Released: 2018-04-25

Narrated by Bill Kurtis, this documentary that explores the life an accomplishments of William...

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The Vetting

as uncredited
Released: 2017-09-21

A twitchy and hysterically garish political satire in which a US senator is vetted for a...

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Homecoming

as Madeline
Released: 2023-04-29

When he is forced to come home after a tragedy occurs in his family, Freddy, a first-year music...

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