14 Facts About Lauren Reed

Lauren Reed is a fictional character played by Melissa George in the ABC television series Alias.

Lauren Reed is Michael Vaughn's wife during the third season of the series.

However, it is soon revealed Lauren Reed is actually a double agent for the Covenant, working to sabotage the CIA's work against the criminal organization and to gain more information about Sydney through Vaughn.

Lauren Reed's first known mission for the Covenant was the assassination of Andrian Lazarey.

Lauren Reed is, contrary to her air of innocence, a cold-blooded killer, yet she appears to have a soft side since she can't bring herself to pull the trigger when tasked to murder her own father when he is given evidence of her true affiliations and to shore up her faltering relationship with Vaughn.

Lauren Reed is an adulterer, for not only does she seduce Vaughn and some of her targets, but becomes involved with Julian Sark, who is working for The Covenant.

Vaughn eventually captures Lauren Reed, who tells him that she fell in love with him, but then Sydney came back and he didn't need her anymore.

Lauren Reed claimed that the Covenant hadn't been in contact with her for two years by that point and she thought they'd leave her with him in peace.

Lauren Reed's 'confession' is ambiguous as she does appear to have developed feelings for Vaughn, as is evident by her reaction to Sark's earlier observation that it killed her when Michael dropped his gun, which was trained on her, to save Sydney.

When Sark is captured by the CIA, Lauren Reed is seemingly brought into the cell next to him to arrange his release.

Katherine Heigl auditioned for the role of Lauren Reed but did not get it.

The character of Lauren Reed received quite a bit of animosity from fans of the show, according to series creator JJ Abrams, in part because she disrupted the romance between Sydney and Vaughn.

However, Abrams indicated that the revelation of Lauren Reed being a turncoat was planned from the beginning and was not because of fan response.

Since Lauren Reed died "off screen" there were rumors during the fourth season that the character would return.