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My Take
Lauren Holly has built the kind of career I find more impressive than flashier ones: decades of steady, authoritative television work. She has a particular gift for playing women in charge, whether a small-town deputy sheriff, an agency director, or a coroner, and she makes institutional power feel lived-in rather than costumed. The Sarah Lawrence pedigree and the dual American-Canadian footing suggest someone deliberate about her path. Plenty of actors get one defining decade; Holly has quietly strung together four, adding producing and voice work along the way. I read her as a consummate professional, and professionals are what keep good shows standing.
Overview
Lauren Michael Holly (born October 28, 1963) is an American-Canadian actress. She has played the roles of Deputy Sheriff Maxine Stewart in the television series Picket Fences, NCIS Director Jenny Shepard in the series NCIS, and Dr. Betty Rogers on Motive.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Lauren Holly
- Name (Japanese)
- ローレン・ホリー
- Reading
- ろーれん・ほりー
- Born
- October 28, 1963 (age 62)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Scorpio / Rabbit
- Origin
- Bristol, Pennsylvania, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- actor / film producer / television actor / film actor / voice actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Geneva High School
- University
- Sarah Lawrence College
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
- 2026-06-11
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.