Laurel Holloman

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Laurel Holloman (born May 23, 1971 in Chapel Hill , North Carolina ) is an American actress and painter .

Life

Holloman started acting as a teenager. After a year in college, she went to Chicago and attended the Piven Theater Workshop. She then studied acting in London at the British American Dramatic Academy. In 1994 she went to New York City and played theater, including on Broadway in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter .

In 1995 she made her film debut in the film The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love . This was followed by a few guest appearances in television series, including Angel and Without a Trace , as well as film roles in Boogie Nights (1997), Tumbleweeds (1999) and Alone (2002).

She played her best-known role from 2004 to 2009 in the US television series The L Word - When Women Love Women as Tina Kennard at the side of Jennifer Beals . In 2004 she received the Satellite Award for this role . Since she was pregnant while filming the second season, her pregnancy was built into the plot. Their daughter was born on November 4, 2004.

Laurel Holloman married Paul Macherey with the set design from 2002 to 2012 and lived with him, their daughter and an adopted daughter in Los Angeles.

Filmography (selection)

painting

Laurel Holloman has auctioned a series of paintings for the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Fund. With the sale of her pictures, she also supports other aid organizations such as Doctors Without Borders and the Hart Foundation.

Exhibitions
  • 2012: Coeur Libre (solo exhibition), Paris, France and Free Falling , Venice, Italy
  • 2013: All The World Inside (solo exhibition), Palazzo “Italia”, Berlin, Germany
  • 2013: Swell , picture at the group exhibition Nell'Acqua Capisco at the Biennale di Venezia
  • 2014: The Fifth Element (solo exhibition), Paris, France
  • 2014: The Opera Gallery, Monaco, France
  • 2014: 2 Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Argentina (2nd International Biennale for Modern Art, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Centro Cultural Borges)
  • 2014: Wynwood Art Selection, Miami, Florida, USA (Images Into The Woods and Map of the World )
  • 2015: X Biennale di Firenze, Florence, Italy
  • 2015: The Innocents (solo exhibition), Mernier Gallery, London, England
  • 2016: "Everglow" (solo exhibition), Museum Jan van der Togt, July 8th - August 28th, Amstelveen, Netherlands
  • 2017: "Fertile Ground" (solo show), Bankside Gallery, July 4th-July 16th, London, UK
  • 2017: Museo Ateneo de Madrid , A Collection of Art from Spain and Latin America, Madrid, Spain
  • 2018: "Color Forest" (duo exhibition with sculptor Susi Kramer) Fondazione Luciana Matalon, Milan, Italy

Awards

  • 2014: First prize in the category of the best work in the overall exhibition for the painting The Reach , 2 Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Argentina
  • 2015: Prize in the painting category for the picture Into The Woods , X Biennale di Firenze

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personal data
SURNAME Holloman, Laurel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Chapel Hill , North Carolina, United States