Laura Rees
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Laura Rees is a British actor of stage and screen.
In 2003, she played the role of Gina the record executive in Richard Curtis' blockbuster romantic comedy Love Actually (2003). Other film work includes the short The Dentist, directed by Stephen Frears and Pierre Tatarka.
She has also appeared on television in Holby City, Where the Heart Is, Murder in Mind, and as Morgana in Young Arthur.
In 2004 she starred in the Doctor Who audio series Dalek Empire III.
Her most recent stage roles are Lavinia in Titus Andronicus and Luciana in The Comedy of Errors at Shakespeare's Globe. In 2004, she played Ophelia in Hamlet, directed by Yukio Ninagawa. In 2003, she appeared in Brand for the Royal Shakespeare Company, directed by Adrian Noble.
Rees trained at the Academy Drama School and at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, where she was the recipient of the Prudence Emilyn-Jones prize in Movement, Dance and Ballet.
