Laura Fraser

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Laura Fraser (2017)

Laura Fraser (born July 24, 1976 in Glasgow ) is a Scottish actress .

biography

Laura Fraser was born and raised in Glasgow. She is the daughter of Rose (nurse, lecturer) and Alister Fraser (construction company owner, screenwriter). Laura Fraser has three siblings: Fraser's older brother works in computer science, her younger sister studies philosophy, and her youngest brother is still in school.

Fraser began acting when he was still in school. She played her first leading role in a play written by her father for a youth group.

Fraser met her life partner, Dublin - born Irish - American actor Karl Geary , on the film set of Coney Island Baby ; the two lived together in Brooklyn and married in 2003 in New York. In mid-2004 Fraser and Geary moved to Ireland . Together with Geary's daughter from their first marriage, they have lived in Glasgow since 2005, where Fraser can devote himself to her family and again to English-Scottish film projects. During her pregnancy had Fraser in late 2005 as a choreographer of Oh Yes He Is with one for -profit viewing purposes pantomime -performance her father. In May 2006, Fraser's daughter was born.

Artistic career

After graduating from Hillhead High School , Fraser first took a drama foundation course at Glasgow Langside College and then enrolled at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (RSAMD) in Glasgow .

During her studies, she had her first role in an internationally shown film in Small Faces , a feature film by Scottish filmmaker Gillies MacKinnon about youth gangs in Glasgow in the 1960s. Her cinema debut was preceded by smaller roles, including a year earlier in the 25-minute short film Good Day for the Bad Guys .

Fraser's cinematic engagement not only met with approval from the rectorate, so that she dropped out of studies after a year.

After moving to London, Fraser immediately received several film offers: She became known to a broad television audience in Great Britain through the fantasy series Neverwhere (1996) by Neil Gaiman , followed by other appearances in television series and feature films.

Fraser's first international leading role was in 1998 as Chaja in Kalman's Secret ( Left Luggage ), for which she received a nomination for the Golden Bear at the 48th Berlinale and several national film awards.

Further leading and supporting roles followed, for example in the British comedy Virtual Sexuality (1999) and as Lavinia in Titus (with Sir Anthony Hopkins , Jessica Lange, among others ) in the same year, in 2001 as Kate, the blacksmith in Knights from Passion ( A Knight's Tale ) and a supporting role in Vanilla Sky . 2003 received Fraser the female lead role in the British film Devil's Gate and embodied 2004, the American women's rights activist Doris Stevens in Alice Paul - Sleeping in Light ( Iron Jawed Angels ), the cinematic implementation of the political struggle of the National Woman's Party for the anchoring of 19 Amendment to the United States Constitution in the late 19th century.

Laura Fraser was instrumental in the BBC already in some radio plays and particularly ambitious television series with: In the four-part BBC One - Miniseries of Anthony Trollope's He Knew He Was Right (2004), in the BBC Three -Dreiteiler Casanova (2005) with Peter O'Toole and David Tennant and the four-part ITV production Is This Love (2007).

She also starred in Land of the Blind in 2006 alongside Donald Sutherland and Ralph Fiennes .

For her role as Anne Obree in Flying Scotsman , a film about the Scottish cyclist Graeme Obree , Fraser was nominated for the 2006 BAFTA award for “Best Actress in a Scottish Film”.

Filmography (selection)

further activities

  • 1999 - Can't Get Enough - music video for the British rock group "Suede" (UK version). Laura Fraser and Max Beesley, produced by John Hillcoat. Suede - Lost in TV on DVD / VHS.
  • 2005 - Oh Yes He is - choreography
  • 2006 - The Madeleine Effect , episode 5, entitled "Skin and Bones," by Sophie Cooke. BBC Radio 4 afternoon reading, September 1, 2006. Five short stories about the importance of food in our lives and memories.
  • 2006 The Voyage Out - radio drama for four women on BBC Radio 4, 10 episodes. Laura Fraser plays Rachel in Helen Edmundson's radio play version of Virginia Woolf's satirical novella.

Awards

  • 2006 - Nomination of the "British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)" for best actress in a Scottish film ( The Flying Scotsman , 2006)

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personal data
SURNAME Fraser, Laura
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish actress
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Glasgow , Scotland