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Laura Innes is a Actor American born on 16 august 1957 at Pontiac (USA)

Laura Innes

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Birth name Laura Elizabeth Innes
Nationality USA
Birth 16 august 1957 (67 years) at Pontiac (USA)

Laura Elizabeth Innes (born August 16, 1957) is an American actress and television director. She played Dr. Kerry Weaver on the NBC medical drama ER, and Sophia on the NBC thriller The Event.

Biography

Innes was born and raised in Pontiac, Michigan, the youngest daughter of six children to Laurette and Robert Innes, a tool and die company executive. Her first fiance was murdered in the early 1980s. A few years after the murder, she married actor David Brisbin and, in 1990, gave birth to their son, Cal. They have since adopted another child, Mia, from China.

Innes is close friends with Megan Mullally and with former ER co-star Maura Tierney.

She is known as an advocate for the disabled community, utilizing her role as a director to help employ disabled people. She is a supporter of the Performers with Disabilities Committee, which is associated with the Screen Actors Guild.

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Filmography of Laura Innes (6 films)

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Actress

Please Stand By, 1h33
Directed by Ben Lewin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Films about autism
Actors Dakota Fanning, Toni Collette, Alice Eve, River Alexander, Tony Revolori, Michael Stahl-David
Rating67% 3.351033.351033.351033.351033.35103
Une jeune autiste s'échappe de son centre d'hébergement dans l’espoir de soumettre son scénario à un concours d'écriture à Hollywood. Sur le chemin elle devra conquérir un nouveau monde rempli d'obstacles.
Deep Impact, 2h
Directed by Mimi Leder
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Disaster, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Space adventure films, La fin du monde, Seafaring films, Politique, Films about religion, Transport films, Dans l'espace, Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films, Impact events in fiction, Arme nucléaire, Disaster films, American disaster films, White House in fiction
Actors Robert Duvall, Téa Leoni, Elijah Wood, Leelee Sobieski, Vanessa Redgrave, Maximilian Schell
Roles Beth Stanley
Rating62% 3.1001653.1001653.1001653.1001653.100165
On May 10, 1998, teenage amateur astronomer Leo Biederman discovers an unusual object near the stars Mizar and Alcor at a star party in Richmond, Virginia with his school's astronomy club. His teacher alerts astronomer Dr. Marcus Wolf, who realizes that the object is a comet on a collision course with Earth. Wolf dies in a car accident before he can alert the world.
Torch Song
Torch Song (1993)
, 1h29
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Raquel Welch, Jack Scalia, Alicia Silverstone, George Newbern, Laura Innes, Lee Garlington
Rating48% 2.4401952.4401952.4401952.4401952.440195
Paula Eastman (Raquel Welch) is a Hollywood actress with an alcohol problem. Her career is doing poorly, and she sometimes sleeps with actors and producers to get roles; often, she comes home drunk. Paula changes her manager, and her career improves, but her personal life isn't improving along with it. Owing to her alcoholism, her relationship with her daughter, Delphine (Alicia Silverstone), is strained.
And the Band Played On, 2h21
Directed by Roger Spottiswoode
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Documentary films about health care, Films about viral outbreaks, LGBT-related films, Sida et LGBT, HIV/AIDS in film, LGBT-related film
Actors Matthew Modine, Alan Alda, Patrick Bauchau, Anjelica Huston, Lawrence Monoson, Richard Gere
Roles Hemophiliac Representative
Rating77% 3.893183.893183.893183.893183.89318
In a prologue set in 1976, American epidemiologist Don Francis arrives in a village on the banks of the Ebola River in Zaire and discovers many of the residents and the doctor working with them have died from a mysterious illness later identified as Ebola hemorrhagic fever. It is his first exposure to such an epidemic, and the images of the dead he helps cremate will haunt him when he later becomes involved with HIV/AIDS research at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Desperate Rescue: The Cathy Mahone Story, 1h33
Directed by Richard Colla
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Mariel Hemingway, Clancy Brown, James Russo, Lindsey Haun, Jeff Kober, Laura Innes
Rating56% 2.8086152.8086152.8086152.8086152.808615
Ali Amir, l'ex-mari de Cathy, vient chercher leur fille, Lauren, pour passer le week-end avec lui et doit la ramener le lundi matin suivant à l'école. Mais lorsque Cathy se rend à l'établissement de sa fille pour la chercher, elle constate avec effroi que sa fille ne s'y trouve pas. Elle se rend aussitôt au domicile d'Ali et se rend compte que son appartement est vide. Le propriétaire des lieux, furieux, lui apprend alors qu'il a quitté les lieux deux jours plus tôt. Effondrée, Cathy se rend immédiatement chez le frère d'Ali qui lui annonce que son frère a vendu son restaurant mais il refuse de lui dire où il est parti. Terrorisée, elle joint alors Maisha, la seconde femme d'Ali. Celle-ci lui révèle que son mari l'a suppliée de partir avec lui pour la Jordanie mais elle a refusé. Peu à peu, les doutes de Cathy se confirment. Ali a enlevé Lauren. Cathy est alors prête à tout pour sauver sa fille des griffes de cet homme.
The Fury
The Fury (1978)
, 1h58
Directed by Brian De Palma, Frank Yablans
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Horror
Themes Children's films
Actors Kirk Douglas, John Cassavetes, Carrie Snodgress, Charles Durning, Amy Irving, Rutanya Alda
Roles Jody
Rating62% 3.149993.149993.149993.149993.14999
Peter Sandza (Kirk Douglas), a former CIA agent, is searching for his son Robin, who was kidnapped by a secret intelligence organization inside the CIA led by Ben Childress. This organization kidnaps psychics to turn them into weapons in the service of the United States government. To better control the psychics, they also kill their families. Peter survived the attempt on his life, but his son believes he was killed by Arab terrorists. After that they begin to systematically experiment with him to increase his powers and develop ability to control them, and these experiments make him progressively more mentally unstable.