Lauren E. Roman

Lauren Roman was born in Wilmington, North Carolina to a Marine Corps family, and grew up in North Carolina and Virginia. While she was an honor student at Langley High School, she landed her first professional acting job at age 15 with the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC. Lauren became a member of their Traveling Young Players, earning a lead role in the touring musical "Footsteps in the Sky." During two years at the University of Virginia, she was part of the prestigious Echols Scholars program and studied philosophy and acting. Lauren relocated to New York City, where she originated the role of troubled young runaway "Laura Kirk English" on the ABC daytime television program All My Children (1970) and starred in the show from 1995-1998. After relocating from New York to Los Angeles, she went on to Guest Star and Supporting roles in such projects as "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (WB), "The Division" (Lifetime), "Roswell" (WB), "The David Cassidy Story" (NBC), "Chicken Soup for the Soul" (PAX), and "Outreach" (WB Pilot).