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Laura Leighton

  • Birthplace: Iowa City, Iowa, USA
  • Birthday: July 24, 1968

Best know for her role as Sydney Andrews on Fox's primetime soap "Melrose Place" (1992-99), the flaming redheaded beauty Laura Leighton continued to grace the TV screen in a series of stand-out parts after leaving the iconic show.

Born Laura Miller on July 24, 1969, in Iowa City, IA, she assumed her grandfather's last name in 1988. Leighton was a girl who kept herself busy in junior high by joining the choir, taking dance lessons and playing various sports. After graduating from West High School in Iowa City, she joined a si…more

Career Milestones

  • 2009

    Reprised her role as Sydney for the new "Melrose Place" on the CW network

  • 2008

    Starred in the horror feature, "The Burrowers"

  • 2006

    Played a woman accused of murdering her ex-girlfriend in two episodes of ABC's "Boston Legal"

  • 2005

    Cast in the short-lived ABC series, "Eyes"

  • 2004

    Starred a single mother who is the victim of a stalker in the Lifetime movie, "Deadly Encounter"