Laura Elizabeth Harris (born November 20, 1976^[1][2]) is a Canadian actress who has appeared in a wide variety of movies and television shows. She is probably best known for her roles as Marybeth Louise Hutchinson in The Faculty (1998), Maggie in Severance (2006), Daisy Adair in Dead Like Me, and Marie Warner in Season 2 of 24.^[3] She took a hiatus from acting in 2015 after almost 28 years, but began reappearing in roles from 2021. She is sometimes credited as Elizabeth Harris and Laura E. Harris.

Harris is the daughter of schoolteachers. She began acting in radio dramas^[4] and animation series when she was five years old.^[5] As a child Harris was educated at Crofton House School^[5] and attended college through UC correspondence.^[6] After working nearly 14 years in television, she broke into feature film acting as a teenager.

Harris is known for her roles as Grim Reaper Daisy Adair in the cable series Dead Like Me ^[7] and as Marie Warner in the spy drama 24.^[5] Her film career dates back to 1990 when she appeared in an adaptation of Stephen King's It as Loni.^[8] She appeared as Marybeth Louise Hutchinson in The Faculty in 1998.^[9][10]

In 2006, Laura Harris starred as Maggie in a British-German horror film called Severance, directed by Christopher Smith, and written by Smith and James Moran.^[11]

In the summer of 2009, she co-starred in the internationally co-produced science fiction series Defying Gravity as Zoe Barnes.^[12]

She has also done voice-overs in animated TV shows including The New Adventures of Beany and Cecil, Astonishing X-Men, Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H. and My Little Pony Tales.

While never officially quit acting, she switched her focus in 2010 to education and began attending college at UC Berkeley. While there, she began to show an interest in activism.^[13] In 2013, she began working for a tech company that also worked to improve local communities, politically and otherwise.^[13]

In 2021, after a 6 year hiatus from acting, Laura took on the role of Willow Ward on the Netflix show Scaredy Cats, appearing in 3 episodes.^[13] Also in 2021 Laura had a part in the Lifetime Channel movie Gone Mom.^[13]