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Laura Ann Tull has had a love of acting since being a child. She was named after the 1945 song "Laura" by her grandfather who also called her "a little Sarah Bernhardt." As a child she was introverted and studious. She graduated with honors from high school and was also a Varsity Cross Country and Track runner. A car accident in 1997 ending her running endeavors. She won a full trustee tuition academic scholarship to McDaniel College where she graduated Alpha Psi Omega (Theater fraternity honors) and Phi Beta Kappa. Actors she knew pushed her to study seeing she had talent. She got cast in her first audition
Laura Ann Tull has had a love of acting since being a child. She was named after the 1945 song "Laura" by her grandfather who also called her "a little Sarah Bernhardt." As a child she was introverted and studious. She graduated with honors from high school and was also a Varsity Cross Country and Track runner. A car accident in 1997 ending her running endeavors. She won a full trustee tuition academic scholarship to McDaniel College where she graduated Alpha Psi Omega (Theater fraternity honors) and Phi Beta Kappa. Actors she knew pushed her to study seeing she had talent. She got cast in her first audition for Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" as an extra, but a cast member quit. That cast member and a friend Sierra Hurt (now a singer and musician in Pennsylvania & London) pushed the director to give her the role (not at her request). Laura was incredibly introverted, a natural healthy way for some people to be. The foundation of her training is the classics, studying the Greeks, Roman, Shakespeare, Goethe, Checkov, Ibsen and later modern American Drama, and taking a semester class on O'Neil. She was selected to perform in a new work for the incoming students called "Choices" where she played a young woman named Michelle exploring the issues of sexually transmitted diseases. She played opposite the now known magician Scott Alexander, also known as Scott Grocki. At the time Laura had never had a boyfriend. Laura also performed "Choices" at a special presentation for the Mid Atlantic College Health Association annual meeting attended by 300 health professionals representing 74 campuses. She received a note from Marlene Clements, President of the Mid Atlantic College Health Association stating her performance was "very real, vulnerable, yet able to grow and gain self worth." It has been her goal ever since to play for the real and honest. "Choices" is still performed to this day for the incoming students at McDaniel. Laura played numerous other roles in college and went on to get a Masters at American University in Performing Arts Management where she met and became friends with punk musician Kenny Inouye and studied Casting, Photography, Art Critical theory, Marketing, and took her first class in TV and Film acting. She auditioned once for a play and landed the lead. She wrote and presented papers on droit morale and first amendment concerns for arts organizations. She also worked for the Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts where she met many area musicians and entertainment lawyers, including Sonny Bono's legislative assistant Chris Katopis. She also completed a juris doctorate at Catholic University where her focus was communication, copyright and entertainment law. She moved to California in 2002 having passed the California bar in 2000. She resigned from the California Bar in good standing having decided that the legal profession was costing her mental health and well being too much and that her natural talents lay elsewhere. Financially she felt she was wasting money for a license she could not bring herself to use. She had actually quit any desire to be in the legal field in 2002 when she became inactive and has made it clear she will not practice. In law school she interned for Court TV for a year for Marietta Lee, working for Fred Graham at the Supreme Court press room and was also an Intern for Clinton's committee on Religious Freedom, hired by Professor Robert Destro of Catholic University law school. Starting in August of 2003 she was cast as a reporter, background, on the show "The Practice," starting a career on sets working as background, stand in, and acting non union. She worked full time in the industry making 20000 a year from 2003 to 2008. She also started studying web but then switched to Digital media in 2007, seeing the industry moving in that direction and wanting to find work to supplement her income that would allow her to continue her goal to act. She has a GPA of 3.73 studying digital editing and motion graphics, and taking acting classes when she can't get the classes she needs. She loved her work on sets and wanted to maintain a good reputation to be able to network into production and acting jobs. Those who don't understand the industry can't comprehend that background is a job and many actors and film makers started with that job. Free market means you don't make someone quit at any level, especially if it's the number one export of that country. Laura wants to stress she was an actor before 2003 and she is one now and belittling people for having been background when so many do it unaware to the general public is the equivalence of a racial slur and needs to end in the industry. She became SAG eligible in 2004 but breast cancer and mastectomy in 2005 delayed her joining until 2011. She was also a member of AFTRA for a year but was assaulted by a staff member and they gave her the money back after trying to ask Jason George of Grays Anatomy why his show took her reasons for beating breast cancer. She had to pay more to join SAG and is a legitimate member of the Union despite the Union denying her rights for two years. She landed her first SAG audition, "A.B.S" which has been in over 13 festivals and won multiple awards. She walked away from Scientology in 2004 having seen a document that stated L Ron Hubbard was happy someone had died against his religion after attending a few classes just to explore what they are about. She was physically violated by a Union member in 2006 who later harassed her on sets. She was tripped on a set in 2008 so bad she could not bend her legs for a week with ABC crew and then 8 months later was told to come to work to be told she is on a list by Disney at Grey's Anatomy. She filed charges with SAG in 2012 only to have the Union have the police put her on a three day hold in a drug rehab facility when she does not do drugs. Later a smart cop informed her she is not a lawyer. Since then she has been legally fighting to get her rights back. By the time the dust settled the new Union SAG AFTRA was formed but though she maintains her membership she has been cut off from attending events and taking classes and finds the only production companies inviting her to events are Christian based and that go against her first amendment values. Her legal actions were dropped with the NLRB in part due to statute of limitation and within 24 hours she was harassed by emails with background from Grays Anatomy and threatened on her Twitter. Her life is about acting and the Arts. Acting is what helps her stand up and say world look at me. She won't give in to bullies. She did both A.B.S and Chemical 13 her first well received shorts for nothing. And is grateful for both. When not acting she loves writing poetry, taking photos, synth & alternative rock, science fiction fantasy thriller and detective books & films, Dr. Who, BBC, Sherlock Holmes, Shakespeare, hiking, horses, dogs, and has been a gluten free vegan since 2009. She loves organic food. She is an advocate for SU2C, feminism, and an end to domestic violence, rape, and bullying. Men who are feminist are Vogue to her. She is also exploring different secular based meditation practices and is an advocate for teaching Yoga to those dealing with cancer and emotional pain.
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