Laura Kirk

Laura Kirk

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).

Movies for Laura Kirk...

Homecoming
Title: Homecoming
Character: Madeline
Released: April 29, 2023
Type: Movie
When he is forced to come home after a tragedy occurs in his family, Freddy, a first-year music student, must reckon with his past to create a brighter future.
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The Stylist
Title: The Stylist
Character: Frankie
Released: September 26, 2020
Type: Movie
Claire is a lonely hairstylist who secretly murders and scalps her clients. When Olivia makes the well-intentioned mistake of asking Claire to style her hair for her wedding, she becomes dangerously obsessed, and her sanity starts to slip away with bloody consequences.
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Parallel Chords
Title: Parallel Chords
Character: Mae Archer
Released: October 26, 2018
Type: Movie
A young violinist struggles to assert her individuality amidst the intense pressure of her pianist father, and the weight of her own musical ability.
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William Allen White: What's the Matter with Kansas
Title: William Allen White: What's the Matter with Kansas
Released: April 25, 2018
Type: Movie
Narrated by Bill Kurtis, this documentary that explores the life an accomplishments of William Allen White.
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The Vetting
Title: The Vetting
Released: September 21, 2017
Type: Movie
A twitchy and hysterically garish political satire in which a US senator is vetted for a Presidential nomination by a 6,000 year old telepath that secretly rules the Earth.
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The Tree
Title: The Tree
Character: Marge McMillan
Released: April 1, 2017
Type: Movie
Inspired by an actual friendship between the director's mother and his mother's best friend, 'The Tree' is a poignant, heart-warming story about an 88 year-old widow (Dorothy Thorp) who takes a road trip from Wamego, Kansas, back to Terre Haute, Indiana, to visit her oldest and dearest childhood friend.
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American Honey
Title: American Honey
Character: Laura
Released: September 30, 2016
Type: Movie
A teenage girl with nothing to lose joins a traveling magazine sales crew, and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard partying, law bending and young love as she criss-crosses the Midwest with a band of misfits.
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No Margrettes
Title: No Margrettes
Character: Josie
Released: July 13, 2015
Type: Movie
Feeling betrayed by her therapist, a woman in couples therapy enlists her younger lover's help in executing an elaborate hoax, meant to restore power to the patient.
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The Sublime and Beautiful
Title: The Sublime and Beautiful
Released: June 6, 2014
Type: Movie
David Conrad is a college professor and sometimes philanderer raising three children in a small Kansas suburb with his wife Kelly. When sudden tragedy strikes the family in the days before Christmas, David and Kelly's marriage is brought to its breaking point and David's desire for retribution leads him into uncharted moral territory with the question: what can we forgive?
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Earthwork
Title: Earthwork
Character: Janis Herd
Released: May 20, 2011
Type: Movie
In 1994, real-life crop artist Stan Herd traveled from Kansas to Manhattan's Upper West Side to create a massive environmental artwork on land owned by Donald Trump. The multi-acre artwork was made from soil, rock, plants and vegetation near an underground railway tunnel. Stan recruited a number of homeless individuals living in the tunnel to become his crew. Over the months it took to complete the earthwork, Stan dealt with a myriad of difficulties in bringing his unique, rural art form to an urban canvas and the many costs his art exacted upon his life. In the process, he unexpectedly encountered the true meaning of his art and it's ultimate, lasting rewards
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The Only Good Indian
Title: The Only Good Indian
Character: Miss Harris
Released: December 1, 2009
Type: Movie
Set in Kansas during the early 1900s, a teen-aged Native American boy is taken from his family and forced to attend a distant Indian "training" school to assimilate into White society. When he escapes to return to his family, Sam Franklin, a bounty hunter of Cherokee descent, is hired to find and return him to the institution. Franklin, a former Indian scout for the U.S. Army, has renounced his Native heritage and has adopted the White Man's way of life, believing it's the only way for Indians to survive. Along the way, a tragic incident spurs Franklin's longtime nemesis, the famous "Indian Fighter" Sheriff Henry McCoy, to pursue both Franklin and the boy.
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Bunker Hill
Title: Bunker Hill
Character: Halle
Released: October 17, 2008
Type: Movie
Peter Salem, a former Wall Street executive recently released from prison, returns to his ex-wife and children in the small town of Bunker Hill, Kansas. Soon after he arrives, the town's electricity and power are shut off, and there is no way to communicate with authorities outside of town. The town's militant past is reawakened and forces coalesce to protect citizens from an unseen enemy. The town's fear leads to the creation of a posse of gunmen, resulting in torture, illegal searches and eventually, murder, against which Salem must stand.
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Murder Without Conviction
Title: Murder Without Conviction
Character: Alberta Talley
Released: February 12, 2004
Type: Movie
Recently released from her vows as a nun, Christine Bennett is discovering "life on the outside." After a visit to her mentally-handicapped cousin Gene, Christine becomes embroiled in the investigation of the murder mystery surrounding James and Edward Talley, twin savant brothers accused of killing their mother on Good Friday.
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The Time Machine
Title: The Time Machine
Character: Flower Seller
Released: March 4, 2002
Type: Movie
Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds mankind divided into two warring races.
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Lisa Picard Is Famous
Title: Lisa Picard Is Famous
Character: Lisa Picard
Released: May 14, 2000
Type: Movie
A documentarian decides to follow the career of New York actress Lisa Picard, believing she is on the brink of fame. Instead, he bears witness to Lisa's continued, humorous, struggles as an actress, as well as the conflict that arises when Lisa's best friend Tate hits it big with an off-Broadway one-man show.
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At First Sight
Title: At First Sight
Character: Betsy Ernst
Released: January 15, 1999
Type: Movie
A blind man has an operation to regain his sight at the urging of his girlfriend and must deal with the changes to his life.