Lauren Ambrose

Lauren Ambrose is an American actress and singer from New Haven, Connecticut, who began her career in New York theater. Her first film role came in the comedy In & Out (1997), followed by Can't Hardly Wait (1998) and Psycho Beach Party (2000). She became widely known for playing Claire Fisher in the HBO drama Six Feet Under, earning two Primetime Emmy nominations and two Screen Actors Guild Awards for the ensemble. Her later films include Diggers (2006), Where the Wild Things Are (2009), in which she voiced the monster KW, Cold Souls (2009), The Other Woman (2009), Sleepwalk with Me (2012) and Wanderlust (2012). On stage she made her Broadway debut in Awake and Sing! in 2006, appeared in Exit the King in 2009, and played Eliza Doolittle in the 2018 My Fair Lady revival, earning a Tony nomination, a Grammy Award and an Outer Critics Circle Award.