Mother is a lettuce and honey farmer in Crescent Beach, Canada.
While filming Fifteen (1990) Laura, Ryan Reynolds and all Canadian cast members lived in rented townhouses near Nickelodeon on the Universal Studios lot in Orlando, FL - girls in one house, boys in another house, with chaperones.
Her first feature film in America was Suicide Kings (1997) starring Christopher Walken and Denis Leary. The film's final scenes with Walken, Leary and Harris were filmed at Catalina Island. It was rumored to be the first time Walken had returned to Catalina Island since the night Natalie Wood drowned there in 1981.
Rides motorcycles and horses.
Both siblings are lawyers.
Is of Scottish, Scandinavian and Iberian descent.
Studied collage at MoMA.
Took the SAT's with thousands of students at local Tribeca high school in 2010. Was offered a scholarship to UC Berkeley in 2011.
Grew up in Surrey, B.C. Canada.
Father was an amateur ping pong and tennis player.