Laura Sinclair (Pacific Palisades)
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Laura Sinclair was a fictional character
from the short lived Fox TV
soap opera
Pacific Palisades
. She was played by Australian actress Kimberley Davies
.
An alluring woman who sold real estate
, Laura would do anything to close a deal, including using her appeal to seduce the buyer, which is exactly what she does in the pilot
when she strips down to her navy blue bra and panties and offers herself to entice her buyer. Later in the pilot, after new resident Nick Hadley (Jarrod Emick
) has caught her eye moving in next door to her, she tries to entice him away from his red haired wife Joanne (Michelle Stafford
) by giving him a striptease
, stripping away her red dress down to her black bra and panties.
Not too long after that, after her beauty actually fails her for once in selling a house, she takes off all her clothes (which was only a red dress) and gets into a hot tub to get her mind off her frustration, but when she gets out later, she is caught by her boss. In order to win his sympathy, she drops her towel and lets him gaze at her wet, naked body, which gets her out of the jam.
Laura's conflict with her clever mother, an appealing woman in related business, came up in later episodes. However, the two concluded the series happily by forming a truce and meeting a father and son who became their romantic interests.
Fictional character
A character is the representation of a person in a narrative work of art . Derived from the ancient Greek word kharaktêr , the earliest use in English, in this sense, dates from the Restoration, although it became widely used after its appearance in Tom Jones in 1749. From this, the sense of...
from the short lived Fox TV
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...
soap opera
Soap opera
A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...
Pacific Palisades
Pacific Palisades (TV series)
Pacific Palisades is an American soap opera that aired on Fox during prime time from April to July 1997. Produced by Aaron Spelling, the show was cancelled after just thirteen episodes despite a last-minute attempt to increase ratings by casting Joan Collins.-Plot summary:Set in the Los Angeles...
. She was played by Australian actress Kimberley Davies
Kimberley Davies
Kimberley Davies is an Australian actress most famous for playing Annalise Hartman on the Australian soap opera Neighbours from 1993 to 1996...
.
An alluring woman who sold real estate
Real estate
In general use, esp. North American, 'real estate' is taken to mean "Property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as crops, minerals, or water; immovable property of this nature; an interest vested in this; an item of real property; buildings or...
, Laura would do anything to close a deal, including using her appeal to seduce the buyer, which is exactly what she does in the pilot
Television pilot
A "television pilot" is a standalone episode of a television series that is used to sell the show to a television network. At the time of its inception, the pilot is meant to be the "testing ground" to see if a series will be possibly desired and successful and therefore a test episode of an...
when she strips down to her navy blue bra and panties and offers herself to entice her buyer. Later in the pilot, after new resident Nick Hadley (Jarrod Emick
Jarrod Emick
Jarrod Emick is an American musical theatre actor best known for his performance as Joe Hardy in Damn Yankees.-Biography:...
) has caught her eye moving in next door to her, she tries to entice him away from his red haired wife Joanne (Michelle Stafford
Michelle Stafford
Michelle Stafford is an American actress, best known for her role as Phyllis Summers on The Young and the Restless.-Career:...
) by giving him a striptease
Striptease
A striptease is an erotic or exotic dance in which the performer gradually undresses, either partly or completely, in a seductive and sexually suggestive manner...
, stripping away her red dress down to her black bra and panties.
Not too long after that, after her beauty actually fails her for once in selling a house, she takes off all her clothes (which was only a red dress) and gets into a hot tub to get her mind off her frustration, but when she gets out later, she is caught by her boss. In order to win his sympathy, she drops her towel and lets him gaze at her wet, naked body, which gets her out of the jam.
Laura's conflict with her clever mother, an appealing woman in related business, came up in later episodes. However, the two concluded the series happily by forming a truce and meeting a father and son who became their romantic interests.