Laurel Holloman

Laurel Holloman is a Canadian and American actress and painter. She graduated from the University of North Carolina with a degree in Performance Communication and performed in theater in Chapel Hill, Raleigh, Chicago, and London. After moving to Chicago for the Piven Theatre Workshop, she studied under John Lynn in Los Angeles and took a part in David Orr's independent feature Blossom Time. She relocated to New York City in 1994 and appeared in stage productions including The Glass Menagerie and The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, and off-Broadway in Night Swim. Her film career began in 1995 with The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love, and she worked steadily in independent films such as The Myth of Fingerprints (1997) and Tumbleweeds (1999). She is best known as Tina Kennard in The L Word. She later retired from acting to paint, received favorable reviews for Free Falling, and returned for The L Word: Generation Q.