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Laura Kirk

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).

Filmography Movies

Acting

Poster for The Time Machine
MOVIE

The Time Machine

6.3(2.5K)
The Time Machine
Flower Seller
Poster for Lisa Picard Is Famous
MOVIE

Lisa Picard Is Famous

4.6(0.0K)
Lisa Picard Is Famous
Lisa Picard
Poster for The Sublime and Beautiful
MOVIE

The Sublime and Beautiful

6.8(0.0K)
The Sublime and Beautiful
Bunker HillMOVIE
MOVIE

Bunker Hill

Bunker Hill
Halle
Poster for The Only Good Indian
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The Only Good Indian

3.5(0.0K)
The Only Good Indian
Miss Harris
Poster for At First Sight
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At First Sight

6.0(0.3K)
At First Sight
Betsy Ernst
Poster for American Honey
MOVIE

American Honey

6.8(0.9K)
American Honey
Laura
Poster for The Tree
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The Tree

7.0(0.0K)
The Tree
Marge McMillan
Poster for The Vetting
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The Vetting

The Vetting
Poster for Parallel Chords
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Parallel Chords

4.6(0.0K)
Parallel Chords
Mae Archer

Production

Gallery

Laura Kirk portrait