Biography for
Lauren Holly More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

28 October 1963, Bristol, Pennsylvania, USA

Birth Name

Lauren Michael Holly

Height

5' 5" (1.65 m)

Spouse

Francis Greco	(10 March 2001 - present) 3 children
Jim Carrey	(23 September 1996 - 29 July 1997) (divorced)
Danny Quinn	(1991 - 1993) (divorced)

Trivia

Attended Sarah Lawrence College (graduated 1985 with a degree in English Literature).

She turned down the role played by Courteney Cox in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994), but later co-starred with Jim Carrey in Dumb & Dumber (1994).

Graduated from Geneva High School in Geneva, New York with the class of 1981 where she was a cheerleader.

Her father, Grant Holly, taught English Literature at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York.

Her mother, Michael Ann, taught art history at the University of Rochester and chaired the department.

Husband Francis Greco is an investment banker.

Younger brother, Nick Holly, was a literary agent in Hollywood at Don Buchwald and Assoc. He is now a writing partner with Fred Goss.

Adopted a baby boy named Alexander. [June 2001]

Her maid of honor at her March 2001 wedding to Francis Greco was actress Amanda Peet

She named her adopted son (Alexander Joseph Greco) in honor of her 14-year-old brother Alexander Innes Holly who was killed in a fire in 1992.

Shared a dressing room for three years with Robin Christopher and Rosa Nevin when they worked together at "All My Children" (1970).

Has 3 adopted sons she refers to as the 3 kings: Alexander, George and Henry.

Ex-daughter-in-law of Anthony Quinn and Jolanda Addolori.

Ex-sister-in-law of Faith Salie.

Became a Canadian citizen in 2008, and now holds dual US/Canadian citizenship.

Personal Quotes

(On her worst audition) Sister Act. I get this call: they're having trouble finding the young mousy nun so they want me to go in. "But isn't this singing?" I ask. "Yes, they know you don't sing." I go in, read the scene, it goes well and the director says to me, "Will you sing a song for us?" I said, "Sing? I don't sing." "No. no, no. Lauren, it doesn't matter that you don't sing. We just want to see if you look like you can sing-do the body movements and the facial expressions and then we'll dub it." So I closed my eyes and belled out "Happy Birthday" as loud as I could and I tried to put all the feeling and body movement into it. When I finished, I opened my eyes. I've never seen such looks of horror as there were on their faces. Then I heard someone in the back of this group say, "Wow, that girl's got balls." It was horrible.