Miracle Laurie (born August 1, 1981) is an American actress, best known for portraying Mellie on the

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Career

Laurie started towards a professional acting career at Orange Coast College, where she was part of the student-run

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. She also appeared in several faculty-directed shows at the school. Notable roles from this period include

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and other female roles in ''Jessie and the Bandit Queen'' in 2000 and

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's '' The Tempest'' in 2001. Laurie's first credited TV role was sorority sister Veronica in "Team", a 2004 episode of ''

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''. In 2009, she played Elsa in the pilot episode of ''The Cabonauts''. That same year,

cast Laurie in his show ''

'', which depicted a secret corporation that recruits troubled young people, stores their memories in a computer, wipes their minds (turning them into "dolls"), imprints them with new personalities, and rents them to wealthy people for special assignments. Her first major dramatic role, Laurie played a supporting character named Mellie. She also dances and plays the ukulele in Uke Box Heroes, a ukulele cover band that she co-formed with her husband. Laurie and her mother, Cathy Anne, appeared as members of the audience in the October 6, 2010 episode of ''

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'', and participated in Ferguson's opening monologue during the cold open."Miracle Laurie — and her mom — on Late Late Show"
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Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

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Uke Box Heroes official site
1981 births 21st-century American actresses Living people Actresses from California American television actresses American female dancers American dancers People from Greater Los Angeles American ukulele players American musicians of Filipino descent {{US-actor-stub