Laura Leighton

Laura Leighton

Born: July 24, 1968
in Iowa City, Iowa, USA
Laura Leighton (born July 24, 1968) is an American actress. She is best-known for the role of Sydney Andrews in the 1990s television series Melrose Place. She reprised the role in the 2009 series remake of the same name before becoming a series regular in the popular series Pretty Little Liars as Ashley Marin.

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Title: Fantasy Island
Character: Nettie
Released: August 10, 2021
Type: TV
This contemporary version of the classic drama series delves into the “what if” questions that keep us awake at night. Each episode tells emotional, provocative stories about people who walk in with a desire, but end up reborn to themselves through the magical realism of Fantasy Island.
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Title: Stars in the House
Character: Self
Released: March 16, 2020
Type: TV
In the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic and theatres across the world closing their curtains indefinitely, SiriusXM host Seth Rudetsky and his husband, producer James Wesley have created Stars in the House, a daily live streamed series to support The Actors Fund and its services.
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Title: L.A.'s Finest
Character: Karen Scott
Released: May 13, 2019
Type: TV
Syd Burnett has left her complicated past behind to become an LAPD detective. Paired with a new partner, Nancy McKenna, a working mom with an equally complex past, Syd is pushed to examine whether her unapologetic lifestyle might be masking a greater personal secret. These two women don't agree on much, but they find common ground when it comes to taking on the most dangerous criminals in Los Angeles.
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Christmas on Honeysuckle Lane
Title: Christmas on Honeysuckle Lane
Character: Andie
Released: November 24, 2018
Type: Movie
Emma Reynolds returns to Oliver's Well to celebrate Christmas for the last time with her siblings in the home they grew up in. After their parents recently passed, the siblings reluctantly agree to sell the family home on Honeysuckle Lane after the New Year, leaving Emma in charge of its belongings. While antiques expert Morgan Shelby appraises Emma's mother's collection, they find a hidden surprise in an antique desk that takes them on a journey to discover the power of love and family during the holidays.
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Title: Dynasty
Character: Corinne Simon
Released: October 11, 2017
Type: TV
Follows two of America’s wealthiest families, the Carringtons and the Colbys, as they feud for control over their fortune and their children focusing on Fallon Carrington, the daughter of billionaire Blake Carrington, and her soon-to-be stepmother, Cristal, a Hispanic woman marrying into this WASP family and America’s most powerful class.
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Title: Code Black
Character: Sonya Finn
Released: September 30, 2015
Type: TV
Inspired by the award-winning documentary, this medical drama is set in the busiest and most notorious ER in the nation where the extraordinary staff confront a challenged system in order to protect their ideals and the patients who need them the most.
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Pretty Little Liars
Title: Pretty Little Liars
Character: Ashley Martin
Released: June 8, 2010
Type: Movie
PLL follows the lives of four girls — Spencer, Hanna, Aria, and Emily — whose clique falls apart after the disappearance of their queen bee, Alison. One year later, they begin receiving messages from someone using the name "A" who threatens to expose their secrets — including long-hidden ones they thought only Alison knew.
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Title: Pretty Little Liars
Character: Ashley Marin
Released: June 8, 2010
Type: TV
Based on the Pretty Little Liars series of young adult novels by Sara Shepard, the series follows the lives of four girls — Spencer, Hanna, Aria, and Emily — whose clique falls apart after the disappearance of their queen bee, Alison. One year later, they begin receiving messages from someone using the name "A" who threatens to expose their secrets — including long-hidden ones they thought only Alison knew.
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Mending Fences
Title: Mending Fences
Character: Kelly Faraday
Released: June 18, 2009
Type: Movie
When big-city TV journalist Kelly Faraday (Laura Leighton) gets fired, she moves back to her Nevada hometown, where a severe drought may force her aging mother, Ruth (Angie Dickinson), to sell the family farm to a casino developer. As Kelly and Ruth sort out old differences, the erstwhile reporter and her ex-beau Walt (David Lee Smith) begin to suspect the casino of manipulating the town's water supply. Stephen Bridgewater directs this drama.
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The Burrowers
Title: The Burrowers
Character: Gertrude
Released: September 9, 2008
Type: Movie
It is 1879 in the Dakota Territories, a band of men who set out to find and recover a family of settlers that has mysteriously vanished from their home. Expecting the offenders to be a band of fierce natives, but they soon discover that the real enemy stalks them from below.
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Daniel's Daughter
Title: Daniel's Daughter
Character: Cate Madighan
Released: January 12, 2008
Type: Movie
When a woman learns that her father has passed away, she must confront the past (and the town) she left behind.
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Love Notes
Title: Love Notes
Character: Nora Flannery
Released: August 20, 2007
Type: Movie
Follows the relationship between a classical music critic and a country music star after a one night stand, which results in an unplanned pregnancy.
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Title: Shark
Character: Angela Corbin
Released: September 21, 2006
Type: TV
Notorious Los Angeles defense attorney Sebastian Stark becomes disillusioned with his career after his successful defense of a wife-abuser results in the wife's death. After more than a month trying to come to grips with his situation, he is invited by the Los Angeles district attorney to become a public prosecutor so he can apply his unorthodox-but-effective talents to putting guilty people away instead of putting them back on the street.
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Title: Eyes
Character: Leslie Town
Released: March 30, 2005
Type: TV
Eyes is an ABC television series starring Tim Daly as Harlan Judd. Eyes follows the firm of Judd Risk Management which uses marginally legal means to investigate individuals and crimes where law enforcement would fall short. With the help of high-tech gadgets, Harlan Judd and his employees recover money for victims as well as investigate individuals for clients but still manage to keep plenty of secrets from one another. In May 2005, having rescheduled the sixth episode twice, ABC announced that they would not be airing the remaining episodes until June at the earliest. They later announced that it would not be picked up for a second season and that the remaining episodes would remain unaired. New Zealand television station TV2 picked up this show and aired the complete series, all twelve episodes, in the second half of 2005. These episodes appeared online via BitTorrent soon after. The show was also partially aired on Singapore television station Mediacorp Channel 5, with the pilot episode and episodes #106 to #112 being skipped. Episode #111 was an exception, and was aired as the fifth episode. The show was also aired in full on France cable television station Canal Jimmy in 2006. In the beginning of 2008 the show was aired in full on Polish television station TVN 7. The series was shown on the Nine Network in Australia in 2007.
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Title: Boston Legal
Character: Erica Dolenz
Released: October 3, 2004
Type: TV
Alan Shore and Denny Crane lead a brigade of high-priced civil litigators in an upscale Boston law firm in a series focusing on the professional and personal lives of brilliant but often emotionally challenged attorneys. A spin-off of long-running series The Practice.
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A Deadly Encounter
Title: A Deadly Encounter
Character: Joanne Sanders
Released: September 6, 2004
Type: Movie
Restaurant hostess and mom Joanne Sanders has to work late one night. After she leaves the restaurant she accidentally cuts a car off on the highway. This driver takes it personally and he begins to stalk and harass Joanne.
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Title: Tru Calling
Character: Jordan Davies
Released: October 30, 2003
Type: TV
A university graduate working in the city morgue is able to repeat the same day over again to prevent murders or other disasters.
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Title: Skin
Character: Cynthia Peterson
Released: October 20, 2003
Type: TV
Skin is a television serial drama which aired at 9:00 p.m. Monday on Fox in 2003. It followed the tale of two teenagers who came from feuding families on opposite sides of the moral and legal spectrum. Adam is the son of the Los Angeles District Attorney, and Jewel is the daughter of a pornographer. The show is a modern-day take on the Romeo and Juliet story. Even after an incredible amount of advertising, the show was cancelled after only three episodes due to poor ratings and less than favorable reviews. It was reprieved in 2005, when SOAPnet acquired broadcasting rights to all eight episodes and aired the last five episodes for the first time.
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Title: Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Released: January 26, 2003
Type: TV
Jimmy Kimmel Live! is an American late-night talk show, created and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and broadcast on ABC.
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We'll Meet Again
Title: We'll Meet Again
Character: Fran Simmons
Released: November 17, 2002
Type: Movie
Socialite Molly Lasch is released from prison after serving a six-year sentence for the murder of her husband, Dr. Gary Lasch. Now, with the help of Fran, an investigative reporter, Molly sets out to prove her innocence. Together they uncover a conspiracy of silence at the Lasch Medical Center and a shocking secret that could cost both women their lives.
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Title: CSI: Miami
Character: Alyssa Prince
Released: September 23, 2002
Type: TV
CSI: Miami follows Crime Scene Investigators working for the Miami-Dade Police Department as they use physical evidence, similar to their Las Vegas counterparts, to solve grisly murders. The series mixes deduction, gritty subject matter, and character-driven drama in the same vein as the original series in the CSI franchise, except that the Miami CSIs are cops first, scientists second.
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The Sky is Falling
Title: The Sky is Falling
Character: Amber Lee
Released: June 7, 2001
Type: Movie
A young woman, struggling to become a novelist, has her life go into a tailspin. Her first novel is rejected, her non-committal boy friend decides to take a powder, her best friend moves to Mexico for an acting job, and her mother announces that her long presumed dead father is actually a hippie photographer who has come to town to meet her. Sinking into a depression at being a total failure at 28, she starts fantasizing about suicide. In her depths of despair she meets various eccentric characters including a chain-smoking Santa Claus and an obnoxious literary agent. But her belief in herself is only restored when she meets a patient in a hospital where she does volunteer work.
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Seven Girlfriends
Title: Seven Girlfriends
Character: Anabeth
Released: April 21, 2000
Type: Movie
Jesse is charming, romantic, and he knows how to pop the question; he just can't face marriage. So, when he and Hannah split up during the same week that a former fiancée dies, he decides to figure things out. He visits each woman about whom he's been serious to ask what went wrong. His teen flame, an independent woman who sometimes sleeps with him, and a group of lesbians give him advice, as does Anabeth, dead but lively in his dreams. One ex remains furious, but with the help of her inventive colleague, the level-headed insomniac Laura, Jesse even gets to talk to her. It's on to Anabeth's funeral, where he'll see Hannah, and maybe grasp what has been eluding him.
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The Clean and Narrow
Title: The Clean and Narrow
Character: Marie
Released: January 21, 2000
Type: Movie
An ex-convict tries to make an honest living and take care of his girlfriend and her mentally slow brother.
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Angels, Baby!
Title: Angels, Baby!
Character: Jessica
Released: October 27, 1999
Type: Movie
When two "soul mates" wander into the same upscale Karaoke Bar, it seems these two painfully shy people will miss out on meeting each other yet again. But when their Guardian Angels see their Love-o-meters (little gadgets the size of a Star Tac Phone with the following readings: "One Night", "Couple of Dates", "3 Months Plus Chips" or the flashing blue "True Love Ways") pulsing off the scale, they decide to join forces and unite their love wards, no matter what it takes. With a couple of spilled drinks, a sexy dress and one show stopping musical number the great looking angels drive these appealing lovers into each others arms, and get the whole bar to join in on the fun.
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Lillian Rice
Released: September 20, 1999
Type: TV
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
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Naked City: A Killer Christmas
Title: Naked City: A Killer Christmas
Character: Gerry Millar
Released: December 13, 1998
Type: Movie
An ambitious reporter gets in the way of two cops assigned to investigate a serial killer who becomes active around Christmas time..
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Title: Cupid
Character: Kristy Holbrook
Released: September 26, 1998
Type: TV
Trevor Hale is an attractive, sarcastic and irreverent man who claims to be Cupid, the Roman god of love, and has descended from Mount Olympus to work on Earth.
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Title: Early Edition
Character: Ginger
Released: September 28, 1996
Type: TV
Gary Hobson thinks he may even be losing his mind when tomorrow's newspaper mysteriously arrives today giving him a disconcerting look into the future. What will he do with tomorrow's news?
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Title: Saturday Night Special
Released: April 13, 1996
Type: TV
Saturday Night Special is an American comedy-variety show that aired weekly on Saturday nights on Fox.
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In the Name of Love: A Texas Tragedy
Title: In the Name of Love: A Texas Tragedy
Character: Laurette Wilder
Released: September 12, 1995
Type: Movie
This is a story of two lovers, Luke and Laurette. Luke is the grandson of a rich Texas family who raised him after the death of his parents. Laurette is daughter of a blue-collar worker. They have different worlds, different lifestyles... What if they meet? After a car accident with his fiancée, Luke can no longer walk without the assistance of orthopedic canes. Because of his disability, his fiancée leaves him. While at a barbecue at his best friend's home, Luke then meets Laurette.
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The Other Woman
Title: The Other Woman
Character: Carolyn
Released: March 26, 1995
Type: Movie
After the divorce from Michael, Tessa raises her daughters Kate and Lara alone. None of them can stand Michael's new young wife Carolyn, a model. But when Tessa learns that she's suffering from cancer and soon will die, she tries to get her kids to accept Carolyn as new mother. She takes them on a trip across the country to her father Jacob's ranch in Wyoming. During this trip, Tessa tries to teach Carolyn about the responsibilities involved in raising kids.
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Title: The Outer Limits
Character: Anne Marie Reynolds / Marie Reynolds
Released: March 26, 1995
Type: TV
Anthology series of composed of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end, with occasional recurring story elements that were often tied together during season-finale clip shows.
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Title: Duckman
Character: Ditzi (voice)
Released: March 5, 1994
Type: TV
Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man is an American animated sitcom that aired from 1994–1997, created by Everett Peck and developed by Peck. The sitcom is based on characters created by Peck in his Dark Horse comic. Klasky Csupo animated the series and produced it along with Reno & Osborn Productions for Paramount Network Television.
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Victim of Love: The Shannon Mohr Story
Title: Victim of Love: The Shannon Mohr Story
Character: Travel Agent
Released: November 9, 1993
Type: Movie
When a woman dies in a supposed accident, her parents suspect their son-in-law of foul play. When the police begin to agree, the murder suspect vanishes.
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Title: The Larry Sanders Show
Character: Herself
Released: August 15, 1992
Type: TV
Comic Garry Shandling draws upon his own talk show experiences to create the character of Larry Sanders, a paranoid, insecure host of a late night talk show. Larry, along with his obsequious TV sidekick Hank Kingsley and his fiercely protective producer Artie, allows Garry Shandling and his talented writers to look behind the scenes and to show us a convincing slice of behind the camera life.
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Title: Melrose Place
Character: Sydney Andrews
Released: July 8, 1992
Type: TV
Follow the lives of a group of young adults living in a brownstone apartment complex on Melrose Place, in Los Angeles, California.
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Title: Beverly Hills, 90210
Character: Sophie Burns
Released: October 4, 1990
Type: TV
Follow the lives of a group of teenagers living in the upscale, star-studded community of Beverly Hills, California and attending the fictitious West Beverly Hills High School and, subsequently, the fictitious California University after graduation.
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Title: Saturday Night Live
Character: Self - Host
Released: October 11, 1975
Type: TV
A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest, who usually delivers an opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast, and features performances by a musical guest.