Lissa Lauria
{{short description|American actress and recording artist}}
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{{COI|date=October 2014}}
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Lissa Lauria is an American actress and recording artist born in New York City.{{cite web|title=Lissa Lauria Releases a New Music Video - Famous (press release) |url=http://www.newswiretoday.com/news/90638/Lissa_Lauria_Releases_a_New_Music_Video__Famous/|accessdate=April 6, 2012}}
Acting career
Lauria is the youngest of four siblings. She began acting at a young age appearing in local, regional and national commercials as well on the children's show Slime Time Live, The Rosie O'Donnell Show and the 2003 film The Kiss.{{cite web|title=The Rosie O'Donnell Show, (1996) (2002) - Cast|url=http://www.getamovie.org/cast/movie/_rosie_o_donnell_show_the_-901082.html}}
When Lauria was fifteen, she and her family moved to the West Coast where she landed a role in the 2009 rock musical, All Ages Night{{cite web|title=All Ages Night (2009)|url=https://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/70130720|publisher=Netflix|accessdate=October 30, 2014}}{{cite news|title=Filming in the U.S. All Ages Night|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-169877193.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140611123650/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-169877193.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 11, 2014|date=September 28, 2007|accessdate=October 30, 2014|publisher=Variety}} and a role in the pilot, How To Survive High School.{{cite web|title=Bonnie Gillespie Resume |url=http://cricketfeet.com/bonniegillespiecastingresume.pdf |accessdate=April 6, 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110830235820/http://cricketfeet.com/bonniegillespiecastingresume.pdf |archivedate=August 30, 2011 }}
Lauria appeared in a segment of the TV series Style 101: Teen Edition, about Spanx and its use during the Academy Awards.{{cite web|title=Some of Hollywood's Tricks to Getting Prom Perfect|url=http://www.hollywire.com/2011/03/some-hollywoods-tricks-get-prom-perfect}} Soon after, she appeared in the TV series Medium{{citation needed|date=October 2014}} and Weeds,{{cite news|title=Movies & TV Lissa Lauria Filmography|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/person/1612515/Lissa-Lauria?scp=1&sq=lissa%20lauria%20weeds&st=Search|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130926001434/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/1612515/Lissa-Lauria?scp=1&sq=lissa%20lauria%20weeds&st=Search|url-status=dead|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=The New York Times|date=2013|archive-date=2013-09-26}} That same year she was a co-writer on Planet Rock: An 80's Musical, which was produced by Randy Jackson, Joe Simpson, Barney Cohen and Delora OBrien.{{cite web|title=Planet Rock: An 80's Musical |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/455205/Planet-Rock-An-80-s-Musical/credits |accessdate=April 6, 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130926001721/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/455205/Planet-Rock-An-80-s-Musical/credits |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |date=2013 |archivedate=September 26, 2013 }} Lauria is the lead in the upcoming comedy film Spare Change{{cite web|title=Spare Change|url=http://tommy2.net/content/?p=47526|accessdate=28 October 2014|date=October 13, 2013|publisher=Tommy2.net}} which is available on Amazon {{cite web|title=Spare Change| website=Amazon |url=https://www.amazon.com/Spare-Change-Lissa-Lauria/dp/B013DS2KEO/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1438714444&sr=8-8&keywords=spare+change+movie}} as well as Google Play and iTunes. Lauria was a lead in the 2019 film, "Wally Got Wasted" {{cite web|title=Wally Got Wasted|website=IMDb |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6621408/combined }} which is an unofficial remake of "Weekend at Bernies." It is now available on Amazon Prime.
Music career
Lauria and the Stained Pink band were invited to open for the Jonas Brothers with four original songs.{{cite news|title=Fashion Show to Rock Rome|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=375&dat=20070103&id=IQQvAAAAIBAJ&pg=6441,117046|accessdate=April 6, 2012|newspaper=Calhoun Times|date=January 3, 2007|pages=5B}}
Lauria has had two of her original songs added to the teen film, Minor Details.{{cite web|title=Minor Details (2009)|url=http://nxfilm.com/movies/minor-details-2009-9914.html|access-date=April 6, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150713162701/http://nxfilm.com/movies/minor-details-2009-9914.html|archive-date=July 13, 2015|url-status=dead}} Soon after, her song "Famous", written with The Jackie Boyz, was added to the soundtrack of pro-wrestling documentary Beyond the Mat.{{citation needed|date=October 2014}} In Denmark, Lauria and the making of "Famous" were the focuses of a Danish reality show about making it in Hollywood.{{cite web|title=Sonny, dans og stjernedrømme: Regitze knust efter audition |url=http://tv3.dk/tv3/sonny-dans-og-stjernedroemme-regitze-knust-efter-audition?type=swf&thumb=1 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130212195430/http://tv3.dk/tv3/sonny-dans-og-stjernedroemme-regitze-knust-efter-audition?type=swf&thumb=1 |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 12, 2013 }}
Music producer and Musical Director for the Black Eyed Peas, Printz Board has produced music with her under his "Beets and Produce" imprint.{{cite news|title=(news briefs from September 3, 2011)|url=http://tommy2.net/content/?p=28816|accessdate=October 28, 2014|date=September 3, 2011|publisher=Tommy2.net}}
As of 2018, Lauria is now 1/2 of the singing/songwriting/production Pop/Rock/Americana duo, Fox & Lauria with musical prodigy, Isaac Fox. They appeared at CMAfest 2018 & 2019 {{cite web|title=CMAfest|url=http://www.cmaworld.com/cma-music-festival/whos-playing-2018/thursday-june-7/?1_route=/client-embeds/cma-2018-thursday/1/1/__/client-embeds/cma-2018-thursday/1/1/performers/46776161/&}} in Nashville.
=Music videos=
- "Famous" (2011)
- "Girlfriend" (2012)
- "Boys and Girls" (2013)
- "One Day" (2014)
=Filmography=
- The Rosie O'Donnell Show (2002)
- Slime Time Live (2002)
- The Kiss (2003)
- Minor Details (2009)
- All Ages Night (2009)
- Caesar and Otto's Summer Camp Massacre (2009)
- How To Survive High School (2010)
- Style 101: Teen Edition (2010)
- Medium (tv series) (2011)
- Weeds (tv series) (2011)
- Beyond the Mat (2012)
- Spare Change (2014)
- Wally Got Wasted (2019)
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://lissalauria.com}}
- {{IMDb name | id=2286882}}
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Category:American television actresses
Category:21st-century American actresses
Category:American film actresses
Category:American child actresses
Category:Actresses from New York City
Category:American women singers