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Laura Lakshmi
ActorBorn November 6, 1995 (29 years)
Laura McDonald was born Laura Lakshmi McDonald in New Dehli, India, on 6th November 1995. She is of Scottish-Australian, Italian, and Finnish descent. Her family returned to Sydney from India where she started school and began her life as a performer, studying classical ballet. At the age of 6, her family was uprooted again to Beijing, China. She attended a bilingual Chinese Mandarin primary school and switched ballet for competitive swimming. Back in Sydney, Laura studied French and German, and developed a love of theatre which culminated in an ATYP scholarship to the Glasgow Commonwealth Games. She was accepted into WAAPA (Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts) in 2015 and graduated with a BA in Acting in 2017. Other than theatre over 2018/19, she was cast as Inez in Michael Robotham's The Secrets She Keeps (Lingo Pictures) which will be shown on Network Ten in 2020.
Filmography
| 2024 | The Way, My Way · as Rosa |
| 2022 | Colin from Accounts (TV Series) · as Willow |
| 2022 | Miniseries (TV Series) · as Rebound Girl |
| 2020 | The Secrets She Keeps (TV Series) · as Inez (as Laura Mcdonald) |
| 2017 | The Gift · as Lalita |
| 1988 | Home and Away (TV Series) · as Allegra Freeman |