Laurie holds dual citizenship in both the United States and Canada. Daughter of Hollywood character actor Larry Holden and stage and film actress Adrianne Ellis, Laurie received her first film role when she was a young child. While on the set visiting her step-father, director Michael Anderson, a child actress hired to play Rock Hudsons daughter in The Martian Chronicles never made it and Laurie filled in. All of a sudden, Im Rock Hudsons daughter.

As a teenager, Laurie won The Look of the Year modeling contest in Toronto. However, she set her sights on acting and attended UCLA to pursue this goal and took acting classes from the late Robert Reed of Brady Bunch fame. She also won the prestigious Natalie Wood Acting award.

Laurie has appeared in various TV shows including Highlander, Murder She Wrote, and Due South for which she was nominated for a Gemini Award (the Canadian equivalent to an Emmy) as best guest star in 1996. Her most visible roles are as Marita Covarrubias on The X-Files, Special Agent Fox Mulder's latest informant and feisty frontier woman Mary Travis on The Magnificent Seven.

• "The Shield" .... Agent Olivia Murray (13 episodes, 2008)
       - Family Meeting (2008) TV episode .... Agent Olivia Murray
       - Possible Kill Screen (2008) TV episode .... Agent Olivia Murray
       - Petty Cash (2008) TV episode .... Agent Olivia Murray
       - Party Line (2008) TV episode .... Agent Olivia Murray
       - Moving Day (2008) TV episode .... Agent Olivia Murray
        (8 more)
• Meet Market (2008) (credit only) .... Billy
• The Mist (2007) .... Amanda Dumfries / Dunfrey
  ... aka Stephen King's The Mist (USA: complete title)
• Silent Hill (2006) .... Cybil Bennett
  ... aka Silent Hill (France)
• Fantastic Four (2005) .... Debbie McIlvane
  ... aka Fantastic Four (Germany)
• Bailey's Billion$ (2005) .... Marge Maggs
• The X Files: Resist or Serve (2004) (VG) (voice) .... Marita Covarrubias
• "The X Files" .... Marita Covarrubias (10 episodes, 1996-2002)
  ... aka The X-Files (USA)
       - The Truth: Parts 1 & 2 (2002) TV episode .... Marita Covarrubias
       - Requiem (2000) TV episode .... Marita Covarrubias
       - One Son (1999) TV episode .... Marita Covarrubias
       - The Red and the Black (1998) TV episode .... Marita Covarrubias
       - Patient X (1998) TV episode .... Marita Covarrubias
        (5 more)
• The Majestic (2001) .... Adele Stanton
• "Big Sound" .... Piper Moran (1 episode, 2001)
       - Shabbas Bloody Shabbas (2001) TV episode .... Piper Moran
• The Man Who Used to Be Me (2000) (TV) .... Amy Ryan
  ... aka Race Through Time
  ... aka Rencontre avec le passé (Canada: French title)
• "The Magnificent Seven" .... Mary Travis (14 episodes, 1998-2000)
       - Obsession (2000) TV episode .... Mary Travis
       - Serpents (2000) TV episode .... Mary Travis
       - Wagon Train: Part 2 (1999) TV episode .... Mary Travis
       - Wagon Train: Part 1 (1999) TV episode .... Mary Travis
       - Love and Honor (1999) TV episode .... Mary Travis
        (9 more)
• "The Outer Limits" .... Susan McLaren (1 episode, 2000)