Laura Innes Biography
Laura Innes was born in Pontiac, Michigan, U.S. as Laura Elizabeth Innes. She is an American actress and television director famous for ER and on the NBC thriller The Event.
Laura Innes Age
Laura Elizabeth Innes was born on August 16, 1957, in Pontiac, Michigan, U.S. She is 66 years old as of 2023.
Laura Innes Height
Laura Elizabeth Innes stands at a height of 5′ 4″ tall.
Laura Innes Family
Innes was born and raised in Pontiac, Michigan, to Laurette who was a homemaker. and Robert Innes, who was a tool and die, company executive, she is the youngest daughter of six children.
Laura Innes Husband/Fiance
Innes is married to actor David Brisbin since 1990, the couple has a son by the name Cal, however, they have adopted another child, Mia, from China. Her first fiance was murdered in the early 1980s.
Laura Innes Salary
Innes earns an estimated salary of about $10000 to $50000 annually.
Laura Innes Net Worth
Laura Innes has an estimated Net Worth of $ 3 million.
Laura Innes Education
Inner Attended Northwestern University (Evanston Illinois) where she majored in theater and later Graduated in 1979.
Laura Innes Career
Innes was introduced to professional theater by her father, Following his advice to “do what you love,” she attended Northwestern University where she was a member of the Alpha Chi Omega sorority and earned a degree in theater.
Her first stage credits were in Chicago at the renowned Goodman Theatre and Wisdom Bridge Theatre, where she played Stella in “A Streetcar Named Desire”. John Malkovich played Mitch in this production. Other major stage credits include Two Shakespearean Actors with Eric Stoltz at Lincoln Center, Our Town at the Seattle Repertory Theatre, and Three Sisters at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego.
Innes played the role of a young daughter of Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara in the short-lived television sitcom The Stiller and Meara Show, but the series was canceled within a few weeks. In 1989, Innes played Miss Andrews in the Nickelodeon TV series Hey Dude in season 2: episode 7 titled “Teacher’s Pest.” She also made an appearance in the same series in episode 57 called “Baby” as the clueless Mrs. Fleeman.
In the 1990s, Innes guest-starred on television series such as Party of Five, My So-Called Life, and Brooklyn Bridge and appeared in the Emmy-winning cable movie And the Band Played On before being cast in her first major TV role as Thomas Haden Church’s promiscuous ex-wife Bunny on the NBC comedy series Wings from 1991–1993.
In the fall of 1995, she joined the hit NBC medical drama ER in its second season, where she was cast as Kerry Weaver, a skilled doctor with an abrasive exterior and a physical disability. Her recurring role led her to become a series regular at the start of the third season.
In 2001, her character came out of the closet. She received two Emmy Award nominations for her portrayal, as well as three Screen Actors Guild Awards as part of the ER ensemble, and has received five nominations for Best Supporting Actress from Viewers For Quality Television.
Innes also directed several episodes of the series, as well as episodes of Brothers & Sisters, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, House, The West Wing, one of which earned her an Emmy nomination for directing.
On May 7, 2010, NBC announced that Innes would be appearing in the new action drama The Event as Sophia, “the leader of a mysterious group of detainees,” alongside Lisa Vidal, who played Kerry Weaver’s wife in ER. In 2012 she was Police Captain Tricia Harper in the short-lived NBC series Awake.
Laura Innes Shows
- The Event 2010-2011
- The Louie Show 1996
- ER (TV series) 1994-2009
- Another World (TV series) 1964-1999
- Telling Secrets
Laura Innes West Wing
The West Wing is an American serial political drama television series where she was the director.
Laura Innes Wings
Wings is an American sitcom where Laura Innes, starred in playing the role of Bunny Mather, portraying Lowell’s wife flirts with nearly every man she encounters and has sex with many of them.
Laura Innes How To Get Away
How to Get Away with Murder is an American drama television series where Laura Innes featured in playing the role of Governor Lynne Birkhead.