Laurie Holden

Born:
Laurie Holden,
December 17, 1972
Los Angeles, CA, USA

Nickname: Blondie

Residence: San Fernando, Los Angeles, CA

Nationality: Canadian/American (dual citizenship)

Father: Larry Holden

Step-father: Michael Anderson, director

Mother: Adrianne Ellis

Younger brother: Christopher

Step-brothers: Michael Anderson, Jr., actor;
David Anderson, producer

One half sister

Famous for: portraying Marita Covarrubias on X-Files

Education: McGill University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; University of California, Los Angeles

     Born in Los Angeles but raised in Toronto, Laurie Holden is the daughter of two actors (Vancouver native Adrienne Ellis and the late Larry Holden) who divorced when she was young. When she was 6, she played Rock Hudson's daughter in the NBC miniseries The Martian Chronicles, directed by her stepfather, Michael Anderson.
     Holden was drawn more to the banking world than acting. But after her freshman year at McGill University in Montreal, where she planned to study economics, she transferred to UCLA, switching her major to theater arts.
     Since graduating in 1993 she's appeared in original films for HBO and Showtime, the TNT miniseries Young Catherine, and CBS' remake of the MGM classic The Magnificent Seven.
     Best known for her work in The X-Files as U.N. informant Marita Covarubbias, she has gained even more attention as Adele Stanton in The Majestic, starring Jim Carrey.