
Laura Kirk
Acting
Laura Kirk is an award winning filmmaker with credits as a producer and actor in many films including Andrea Arnoldās 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 Gaspardās book āFast, Cheap and Under Control ...Lessons Learned from the Greatest Low Budget Movies of All Time.ā 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 āWomen of Lawrence Filmā 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).
Known for
2020The Stylist
Frankie
2018Parallel Chords
Mae Archer
2018William Allen White: What's the Matter with Kansas
Self
2017The Tree
Marge McMillan
2017The Vetting
2016American Honey
Laura
2014The Sublime and Beautiful
2011Earthwork
Janis Herd
2009The Only Good Indian
Miss Harris
2004Murder Without Conviction
Alberta Talley
2002The Time Machine
Flower Seller
2000Lisa Picard Is Famous
Lisa Picard
1999At First Sight
Betsy Ernst
1998Too Tired to Die
Streetwalker #2