Laura Jane Haddock (born 21 August 1985) is an English actress. She is known for portraying Zoë Walker in White Lines, Kacie Carter in Honest, Lucrezia in Da Vinci's Demons, Meredith Quill in Guardians of the Galaxy and its sequel Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Alison in The Inbetweeners Movie and Viviane Wembly in Transformers: The Last Knight.

Contents

• 1 Early life
• 2 Career
• 3 Personal life
• 4 Filmography
  • 4.1 Film
  • 4.2 Television
  • 4.3 Stage
• 5 Awards and nominations
• 6 References
• 7 External links

Early life

Haddock was born in Enfield, London, to a reflexologist mother and a financier father. She was raised in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, where she attended St George's School. She left school at the age of 17 and moved to London to study drama. She trained at Arts Educational School in Chiswick.

Career

Haddock made her television debut in the television pilot Plus One, part of the Comedy Showcase 2008. Her other television credits include The Palace, My Family, The Colour of Magic, Marple: A Pocket Full of Rye and Honest, playing the lead role of Kacie Carter. She also appeared in the pilot episode of Life Is Wild, the American version of Wild at Heart. She also starred in adverts for dot tel. Haddock played the lead role of Natasha in the ITV1 comedy drama Monday Monday, and appears as Samantha in series two and three of How Not to Live Your Life, replacing previous female lead Sinéad Moynihan.

In 2011, she appeared in the Cinemax/Sky TV drama Strike Back: Project Dawn for two episodes playing the kidnapped daughter of an illegal arms dealer. She starred as Lucrezia Donati, the mistress of Lorenzo de' Medici and lover of Leonardo da Vinci in the 2013 series Da Vinci's Demons. Haddock's theatre credits include Famous Last, which formed part of the 2009 Sky Arts Theatre Live! project, and Rutherford & Son at Northern Stage. In 2014, she portrayed Meredith Quill in Guardians of the Galaxy, a role she reprised in its 2017 sequel Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. She appears in the ITV series, The Level, and played Vivian Wembley in the Michael Bay film Transformers: The Last Knight, which was released on 21 June 2017.

In 2021, Haddock starred in a Christmas marketing campaign for British furniture and home accessories retailer OKA.

Personal life

Haddock married English actor Sam Claflin in July 2013 after dating for two years. They have a son, Pip, born in 2015 and a daughter, Margot, born in 2018. On 20 August 2019, Haddock and Claflin announced their legal separation.

Filmography

Film

Television

Stage

Awards and nominations

References

External links

• Laura Haddock at IMDb