Lauren Holly Biography
Born: October 28, 1963
Date of Birth: October 28, 1963
Lauren Holly was born in Bristol, Pennsylvania. The daughter of two professors, Holly was educated at Sarah Lawrence College where she roomed with actress Robin Givens while studying for a degree in English literature. She got her start in acting with the 1985 film Seven Minutes in Heaven which led to a role on daytime TV's All My Children. Holly stayed with the soap for three years and was honored with an Emmy nomination for her portrayal of Julie Chandler. She later put in four seasons with CBS's Emmy-winning series Picket Fences before making her big screen breakthrough in Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993).
Lauren admitted that turning down the female lead in Ace Ventura, Pet Detective (1994) was not the best decision she's ever made. So when she was offered another opportunity to star with Canadian actor Jim Carrey in Dumb and Dumber (1994), she wasn't going to make the same mistake twice. Holly and Carrey walked down the aisle together in 1996, but cited "irreconcilable differences" as the reason for divorce ten months later.
Most recently, she starred in the Canadian crime drama series Motive and in the feature film After the Ball(2015).