14 Facts About Laura Innes

Laura Elizabeth Innes was born on August 16,1957 and is an American actress and television director.

Laura Innes starred as Dr Kerry Weaver in the NBC medical drama ER from 1995 to 2007 and reprised her role from 2008 to 2009 in the final season.

Laura Innes starred as Sophia in the short-lived NBC thriller The Event from 2010 to 2011.

In 1986, Laura Innes co-starred as Krissy Bender Marino, the daughter of Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara in the short-lived sitcom The Stiller and Meara Show.

In 1989, Laura Innes played Miss Andrews in the Nickelodeon sitcom Hey Dude in the second season episode "Teacher's Pest".

Laura Innes played Bunny, the promiscuous ex-wife of Lowell Mather.

Laura Innes was added to the main cast in the third season.

Laura Innes received two Emmy Award nominations for her role, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards with the ER ensemble cast, and has received five nominations for Best Supporting Actress from Viewers For Quality Television.

In January 2007, Laura Innes left ER in the middle of the thirteenth season, becoming the longest-serving cast member in the show's history, but Noah Wyle appeared in four more episodes than her.

Laura Innes' films include the blockbuster science fiction disaster film Deep Impact and the comedy Can't Stop Dancing with her former ER co-star Noah Wyle.

Laura Innes was born and raised in Pontiac, Michigan, the youngest daughter of six children to Laurette and Robert Laura Innes, a tool and die company executive.

In 2006, Laura Innes told the Daily Mirror that ten years of portraying Dr Weaver's limp had caused her to experience the early stages of actual spinal damage, and that as a consequence, ERs producers introduced a plot arc in which Weaver's symptoms were surgically relieved.

Laura Innes is an advocate for the disabled community, utilizing her role as a director to help employ disabled people.

Laura Innes is a supporter of the Performers with Disabilities Committee, which is associated with the Screen Actors Guild.