Laura Dean (actress)
Laura Dean ( born May 27, 1963 in New York, New York; actually Laura Francine German ) is an American dancer, actress and voice actress. Notoriety they gained through their involvement in the movie Fame - The Path To Glory (1980).
Biography
The daughter of Barbara German, a high school teacher of stenography and typewriting, grew up with two older sisters. Laura Dean's parents separated when she was two years old. The family suffered financial difficulties, after which the mother miteinspannte their daughters early in generating livelihood and let occur in television advertising and children's beauty pageants. Your grandmother made Dean two years younger so she could sign their first contract for a tour of the play The Sound of Music at the age of five years ( until the age of seven could be the American actor union Actors' Equity join ). They also went with the pieces Bye Bye Birdie, The Me Nobody Knows and Gypsy on tour. 10-15 years of age, Dean sang with the New York City Opera and appeared in Carmen, La Bohème, Die tote Stadt and Mefistofele. As a 13 - year-old she was the understudy for the title role of Annie ( Goodspeed Opera House, Connecticut). As a soloist Dean was seen as Flora in Benjamin Britten's Turn of the Screw and in John Guare's Landscape of the Body at New York's Public Theatre (1978).
Later, Dean attended the New York High School of Performing Arts. International fame brought her 1980 Alan Parker's Fame - The way a to fame. The musical film depicts in five episodes ( entrance exams and four semesters) the history of a group of students from the New York High School of Performing Arts. Dean took over the role of naive ballet student Lisa Morgan, whose talent is not enough for a dance career. She was the youngest member of the ensemble performer to Irene Cara, Paul McCrane, Maureen Teefy, Antonia Franceschi, Eugene Anthony Ray, Barry Miller and Lee Curreri and still a student of the High School of Performing Arts. "Fame represented for me a living yearbook, because so many of the minor characters were my classmates ," said Dean, who had begun training at the School of Art in collaboration with Ray.
Fame showing the worries, hardships and dreams of aspiring dancers, singers, actors and musicians, great success with audiences and praise from the critics was granted. The film won two Academy Awards and a Golden Globe Award and was works similar topic ( Flashdance, 1983; Footloose, 1984) and an eponymous television series ( 1982-1987 ) followed. 1980 Dean successfully sued her mother for embezzlement for damages in the amount of $ 250,000; a sum which indicated the then 17 -year-old than previous income from the show business. After graduating from the High School of Performing Arts, she broke a college visit after only four days. They also leaned Fame from many similar role offers. In 1983 she took over the critically acclaimed Part of the silly blond cheerleader Boopsie in the world premiere of the Broadway musical Doonesbury at New York's Biltmore Theatre.
She appeared in other films such as the television production Soup for One ( 1982) or the romantic comedy Let's get out (1985 ), but could not build on the early film success. 1993 Dean was the understudy of Mrs. Walker in the original performance of the hit Broadway musical The Who's Tommy (St. James Theatre ). In 1997 she received the recurring part of Sophie in the series Friends. 2002 Dean belonged to the female ensemble of the Oscar-winning musical Chicago. Since the mid- 1980s, it is mainly as a voice for television animated films and series such as My Little Pony, Galaxy Rangers (both 1986) and Starla and the crystal Saviour (1995 ) worked.
Laura Dean is married to a doctor and lives in New York. She is the mother of two children.