Laura Lakshmi

Born: 1995-11-06

Laura McDonald was born Laura Lakshmi McDonald in New Dehli, India, on 6th November 1995. She is of Scottish-Australian, Italian, and Finnish descent. Her family returned to Sydney from India where she started school and began her life as a performer, studying classical ballet. At the age of 6, her family was uprooted again to Beijing, China. She attended a bilingual Chinese Mandarin primary school and switched ballet for competitive swimming. Back in Sydney, Laura studied French and German, and developed a love of theatre which culminated in an ATYP scholarship to the Glasgow Commonwealth Games. She was accepted into WAAPA (Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts) in 2015 and graduated with a BA in Acting in 2017. Other than theatre over 2018/19, she was cast as Inez in Michael Robotham's The Secrets She Keeps (Lingo Pictures) which will be shown on Network Ten in 2020.


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The Way, My Way

as uncredited
Released: 2024-04-16

Based on the best selling Camino memoir of the same name by Bill Bennett, the film documents one...

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Rehabilitating

as Melissa
Released: 2024-06-08

A woman with chronic pain is stuck in a rehab hospital, unable to leave until she can find a way...

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Home and Away

as Allegra Freeman
First aired: 1988-01-18

Home and Away is set in the fictional town of Summer Bay, a coastal town in New South Wales, and...

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Colin from Accounts

as Willow
First aired: 2022-12-01

Ashley and Gordon are two single(ish), complex humans who are brought together by a car accident...

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The Secrets She Keeps

as Inez (as Laura McDonald)
First aired: 2020-04-22

In an affluent Sydney suburb, two women have a chance encounter in a supermarket. They are the...

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