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My Take
Laura Fraser is a wonderfully versatile Scottish actress, and for me her Lydia in Breaking Bad is the perfect showcase: fidgety, anxious, utterly memorable in just a handful of scenes. Glasgow-born, she's been working steadily since the 90s, from Neverwhere to A Knight's Tale, and she carried that anxious-villain energy right into Better Call Saul. I also rate her dramatic lead work in Lip Service and the crime series Traces. She's never been one for flashy fame, just consistently excellent character work, and that's exactly the kind of actor I find myself trusting completely whenever her name appears in the cast.
Overview
Laura Fraser (born 24 July 1975) is a Scottish actress. She has played Door in the urban fantasy series Neverwhere (1996), Kate in the film A Knight's Tale (2001), Cat MacKenzie in the BBC Three drama series Lip Service (2010–2012), Lydia Rodarte-Quayle in the AMC crime drama series Breaking Bad (2012–2013) and its spin-off Better Call Saul (2017–2020), and Professor Sarah Gordon in the BBC One crime series Traces (2…
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1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Laura Fraser
- Name (Japanese)
- ローラ・フレイザー
- Reading
- ろーら・ふれいざー
- Born
- July 24, 1976 (age 49)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Leo / Dragon
- Origin
- Glasgow, United Kingdom
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- actor / film actor / stage actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Hillhead High School
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.