1. Laura Diane Leighton was born on July 24,1968 and is an American actress.
13 Facts About Laura Leighton
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Laura Leighton played Sydney Andrews on the television series Melrose Place and its continuation, and Ashley Marin on Freeform's series Pretty Little Liars.
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Laura Leighton left the show at the end of the fifth season in 1997, which saw her character Sydney being struck and seemingly killed by a car, only moments after her wedding to Craig Field, played by David Charvet.
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Laura Leighton hosted an episode of Saturday Night Live in 1995 with musical guest Rancid.
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Laura Leighton later starred in the indie film The Sky Is Falling with Dedee Pfeiffer and Eric Close before taking a break to have her son Jack Douglas.
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On December 7,2009, ABC Family announced that Laura Leighton had been cast in a lead role in the TV series Pretty Little Liars, a TV adaptation of a book of the same name by Sara Shepard as Ashley Marin, the mother of Hanna Marin played by Ashley Benson, one of the four main characters on the show.
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Laura Leighton stayed with Pretty Little Liars for all seven seasons until the show's end in June 2017.
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In 2018, Laura Leighton guest starred on the CBS medical drama Code Black as Sonya Finn, and then starred in the Hallmark Christmas movie Christmas on Honeysuckle Lane.
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Laura Leighton appeared as Nettie in the episode "The Big Five Oh" of the Fantasy Island sequel series.
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Laura Leighton appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone with her co-stars Heather Locklear and Josie Bissett in May 1994, in an issue entitled "The Hot Issue".
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Laura Leighton was born Laurie Miller in Iowa City, Iowa, and is a 1986 graduate of West High School in Iowa City.
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Laura Leighton then joined The Young Americans and was a member of their 1987 "Around the World in 80 days" show.
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In May 1998, Laura Leighton married her Melrose Place co-star Doug Savant.