LAURIE BURKE'S BIO

Laurie Burke is a San Francisco native from a family of professional actors and musicians (think: “The Partridge Family” meets “This Is Spinal Tap”!). With an adventurous spirit and a genuine joy of all things creative, she decided to follow her family’s lead and make her passion her career. For over fifteen years, Laurie has been a professional Actress, Voice Over Artist, Host and Singer.

With an un-quenching thirst to learn her craft, Laurie has studied Dramatic Arts in London (Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts), Paris, Berlin, Los Angles and San Francisco (American Conservatory Theater). As a multi-creative, she has worked in most avenues of the Entertainment industry, working in front of and behind the camera in TV, Film, Theater, and Voice Over, as well as in Development, Production, and many years in Casting.

Her many TV credits include playing lawyer Alice Kaye opposite Hugh Laurie in Chance, having starring roles in Wives with Knives and I (Almost Got Away With It) numerous commercials for major companies including Blackberry, Volkswagen, Raley’s, Walmart, Metro PCS, Nokia, and Wells Fargo.  Currently, she playing Sheriff Laura Stevens in the Rosario Dawson based web series The North Pole.

Film credits include “Mr. Invincible”, “The Mendoza Line”, “Redwoods”, and “My Eleventh” and numerous award-winning Short Films including voicing the main role of “Hisayo” in Roadside Assistance. Recently she worked opposite Adam Devine in the feature film “Jexi” - providing the “on-set” (behind the scenes) voice of Jexi.

Known as the “Original Voice of Google Voice”, she has been heard on countless radio and T.V. commercials as well as animated films. Her Voice Over projects include The Emmy Awards, Channel 36(L.A.), Cisco, The Addy Awards, LinkedIn, Kaiser Permanente, 24 Hour Fitness, Symantec, First Republic Bank, Wells Fargo, TV.com, and has held contracts as the voice for all Raley’s/Nob Hill commercials and Common Sense Media.

Theater credits include the role of "Amy" in Stephen Sondheim's musical "Company", "Gal" in the touring production of "Just for Laughs", and starred in countless Sold-Out performances as “Claudia Roe” in Lucy Prebble’s “Enron”.

For over eight years, Laurie has been a TV Host for Common Sense Media. She’s also their go-to for Voice Over and Award shows.

As a professional singer, Laurie has fronted many different bands of different genres as well as performed in many musicals, films, jingles, and Voice Over projects.

Links:

Laurie appears appears with Daveed Diggs in Rajeev B Prabhakar's short film: Rock Hard: The rise and Fall and Rise of Sexual Detergent

http://www.thenorthpoleshow.com


Website: http://www.laurieburke.com

YouTube: www.youtube.com/laurieburke/

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurieburkeproductions/

Ragtime music in episode:  http://ragsrag.com

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