Laurie has been working professionally for over 20 years and has worked with legends including James Caan, Dennis Hopper, Martin Landau, Michele Pfiffer, James Gandolfini, Danny Aiello and Hugh Laurie to name only a few. She has also shared memorable scenes with Gary Sinise, Claire Danes, Famke Jensen, Peter Gallagher, Dylan McDermott, Michael Chiklas, Louis Gosset Jr., Joe Mantagna, Dougray Scott, Sharon Lawrence, Maggie Q and Sarah Silverman.
Fortier has been extremely busy thus far in 2017… she stars along side Josh Duhamel in the USA Network series “Unsolved”; a true crime story about the murder of Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur. Laurie plays real life cop Donna Kading and was thrilled to work with Josh and the Emmy award winning director, Anthony Hemmingway. She also starred alongside Sherilyn Fenn in the Lifetime movie “Fatal Defense”. She is a regular on the new BlackPills digital series, “Exposed” (now available on your mobile device by downloading the app Blackpills) which takes a daring look into the porn industry. Laurie is also a regular on the Comic Con HQ series “King’s of Con”, in which she finds herself in full beard in a more comedic role. She plays a cos-playing super fan of the Comic-Con convention circuit. Whether it is comedy or drama, Laurie makes it all believable.
With a wide breadth of success in TV & Film, Laurie has been in: every version of CSI (multiple times), Hawaii Five-O, Castle, Rush, Stalker, and 2 seasons of the Netflix original series Hemlock Grove opposite Dougray Scott and Famke Jansen. She starred in the Warner Brothers film The InCrowd and got her start acting in “To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday”, opposite Michelle Pffiefer, Peter Gallagher and Claire Danes, where she was cast by legendary casting director Lynn Stalmaster (Tootsie, The Graduate).
Laurie is a mother, yogi and athlete.
She is thrilled that in her career she has been offered numerous prime time roles as mothers, male (yes male) con artists, maniacs, the girl next door, high powered attorneys, cops, victims, perps, athletes and devilish villains. From “kindhearted heroines” to the “evil monster”, Laurie Fortier has been blessed with the gift of true versatility.
