Lauren-Marie Taylor

Lauren-Marie Taylor is an American actress whose horror roles earned her a scream queen label. Born and raised in the Bronx, she was discovered by a talent agent during a high school staging of Oklahoma! and started out in commercials. Her first major role cast her as Vickie in Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981). She then appeared in the dark comedy Neighbors (1981) and the slasher Girls Nite Out (1982). On television, she played Eleanor Skofield on Ryan's Hope from 1980 to 1981 before taking the role of Stacey Donovan on the soap opera Loving, which she held from 1983 to 1995 and where she was the only original cast member to remain for the show's full run. Later she hosted the Lifetime crafts program Handmade by Design and performed in off-Broadway plays. She returned to films in the horror feature In a Violent Nature (2024).