Laurie O'Brien is an American actress. She is best known for voicing Baby Piggy on the 1980s
Saturday morning cartoon
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Jim Henson's Muppet Babies'' from 1984-1991 & the
CTW animated series ''
Cro'' as Ivana the mammoth. As an on-camera actress, O'Brien has guest starred on the soap opera ''
Santa Barbara'' as a hooker as well as other numerous TV series including ''
Trapper John, M.D.'', ''
NYPD Blue
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Matlock'', ''
Chicago Hope'', ''ER'', ''CSI'', ''
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7th Heaven'', ''Reasonable Doubts'', ''Shark'', ''Three Rivers'', ''Detroit 1-8-7'', and ''
L.A. Law
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'' on which she played a woman on trial for killing her rapist. TV movies include ''The Defiant Ones'', ''Too Young to Die?'', ''Infidelity'', ''Children of the Night'', ''Convicted'', and ''One More Mountain''. Movies include ''Bottle Shock'' in which she played Christopher Pine's mother. Laurie has an extensive background in theater winning three major awards for her lead roles in ''Mary Barnes'', ''Savage in Limbo'' and ''Times Like These''.
Acting credits
Theater
Film
Television
Awards
*L.A. Drama Critics Circle award for ''Mary Barnes'', 1981
*L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award for ''Savage in Limbo'', 1987
*Ovation Award, ''Times Like These'', 2003
References
External links
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Living people
20th-century American actresses
21st-century American actresses
American television actresses
American voice actresses
Year of birth missing (living people)
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