Laura Rogers

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Laura Rogers (born March 10, 1979 in Wales) is a British actress.

[edit] Biography

As a youngster Rogers was a member of the West Glamorgan Youth Theatre Company and Upland Arts, the Swansea Gilbert and Sullivan society. She studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London, where she was in the same year as Claudia Harrison, graduating in 2000.

[edit] Acting Roles

Rogers's highest-profile roles to date have been single mother and former drug addict Sheena Williams in Series 7 of the British TV drama Bad Girls (2005) and Chastity Green in the BBC mini-series The Sins alongside Pete Postlethwaite (2000).

In December 2003 to January 2004 she was in Revelations at the Hampstead Theatre in London.

In April and May 2004 she performed as Mary Yellan in Jamaica Inn at the Salisbury Playhouse. She then went into a production of Celestina, which started at the Birmingham Rep Theatre and moved onto the King's Theatre, Edinburgh as part of the Edinburgh International Festival that year before returning to the Rep.

In February 2006 she appeared at Bristol Old Vic as Rosine in The Barber Of Seville. In December of that year she played Milady de Winter in The Three Musketeers at the same venue.

In 2007 she played wing governor Helen Stewart in Bad Girls: The Musical in London's West End, a role played (as a non-musical part) in series 1-3 of the television series Bad Girls by Scottish actress Simone Lahbib. Rogers previously appeared in this role in the musical's run at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in 2006.