Early life

Lauren attended Henry James Cambie Secondary School. Smith was born in Vancouver

Vancouver

Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...

, British Columbia

British Columbia

British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...

, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

. The stepdaughter of a documentary filmmaker, Lauren travelled around the world with her family. When she was 14, her family moved to Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...

, California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

. There, she began a modelling career.

Acting career

At the age of 19, she was cast in a featured role in the remake of Get Carter

Get Carter (2000 film)

Get Carter is the 2000 remake of the 1971 crime film of the same name, starring Sylvester Stallone in the title role. The film also features Miranda Richardson, Rachel Leigh Cook, Alan Cumming, Mickey Rourke, and Rhona Mitra. Michael Caine, who starred in the original, plays a supporting role...

. Smith has also appeared in such works as Christy: Return to Cutter Gap

Christy: Return to Cutter Gap

Christy: Return to Cutter Gap is a 2000 made-for-tv movie starring Lauren Lee Smith, Stewart Finlay-McLennan, James Waterston and Diane Ladd.- Summary outline :...

, Christy: A Change of Seasons

Christy: A Change of Seasons

Christy: A Change of Seasons is a 2001 two part made-for-tv movie starring Lauren Lee Smith, Stewart Finlay-McLennan, James Waterston and Diane Ladd.-External links:*...

 and Christy: A New Beginning and starred in the show Mutant X

Mutant X (TV series)

Mutant X is a science fiction television series that debuted on October 6, 2001. The show was created by Marvel Studios, and it centers around Mutant X, a team of "New Mutants" who possess extraordinary powers as a result of genetic engineering. The members of Mutant X were used as test subjects...

, where she played the character of Emma deLauro. She has also guest-starred in episodes of Dead Zone

The Dead Zone (TV series)

The Dead Zone, aka Stephen King's Dead Zone is an American-Canadian science fiction/suspense series starring Anthony Michael Hall as Johnny Smith, who discovers he has developed psychic abilities after a coma...

, The Twilight Zone

The Twilight Zone

The Twilight Zone is an American television anthology series created by Rod Serling. Each episode is a mixture of self-contained drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist...

, and Blade: The Series

Blade: The Series

Blade: The Series is a 2006 American live-action television program based on the Marvel Comics character and film series. It premiered on Spike on June 28, 2006...

, among others. Smith was also a recurring character in the Showtime drama series The L Word

The L Word

The L Word is an American co-production television drama series originally shown on Showtime portraying the lives of a group of lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people and their friends, family and lovers in the trendy Greater Los Angeles, California city of West Hollywood...

, playing Sous-chef Lara Perkins. In 2005, Smith filmed the sexually explicit movie Lie with Me

Lie with Me

Lie with Me is a Canadian drama film with graphic sexual content that played at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival. It is based on the novel of the same name by Tamara Berger...

, where she played the character of Leila.

In 2006 she had a recurring part on the Canadian drama Intelligence

Intelligence (TV series)

Intelligence is a Vancouver-based television crime drama starring Ian Tracey and Klea Scott that aired on the CBC. With its pilot first airing on November 28, 2005, the series began regular broadcasting on October 10, 2006. CBC reaired the pilot on June 7, 2007 and began broadcasting reruns of...

. In early 2007, she starred in the CBC

CBC Television

CBC Television is a Canadian television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster.Although the CBC is supported by public funding, the television network supplements this funding with commercial advertising revenue, in contrast to CBC Radio which are...

 mini-series Dragon Boys

Dragon Boys

Dragon Boys is a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation miniseries starring Eric Tsang, Byron Mann, Lawrence Chou, Tzi Ma, Lauren Lee Smith, Steph Song, Darryl Quon, Christina Ma, Jean Yoon, Simon Wong and Chang Tseng...

.

In 2008, Lauren starred in the film Pathology

Pathology (film)

Pathology is a 2008 thriller horror film directed by Marc Schölermann and written by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, the writers of Crank. The cast was announced on April 4, 2007 and filming started in May 2007...

 and became a series regular in the ninth season on the CBS hit show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is an American crime drama television series, which premiered on CBS on October 6, 2000. The show was created by Anthony E. Zuiker and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer...

. She joined Grissom

Gil Grissom

Dr. Gilbert "Gil" Grissom, is a fictional character on the CBS crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, portrayed by William Petersen. Grissom was a forensic entomologist and the night-shift supervisor of the Clark County, Nevada CSI team, investigating crimes in and around the city of Las Vegas...

's team as Riley Adams

Riley Adams

Riley Adams is a fictional character in the CBS crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, portrayed by Lauren Lee Smith. She appeared in 22 episodes during the ninth season, starting with "Art Imitates Life" and ending with "All In".-Biography:...

, "a smart, flirtatious, and witty non-conformist who entered law enforcement to rebel against her judgmental psychiatrist father." However, due to creative differences on the show, the character did not return for the tenth season.

She married German photographer Erik Steingröver on April 4, 2009.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2000	2ge+her 2ge+her 2gether was an American fictional boy band whose composition, songs, and formation story is a satirical approach to the boy bands of the 1990s, such as New Kids on the Block, 'N Sync and Backstreet Boys...	Erin Evans	as Lauren Smith, TV movie
	Get Carter Get Carter (2000 film) Get Carter is the 2000 remake of the 1971 crime film of the same name, starring Sylvester Stallone in the title role. The film also features Miranda Richardson, Rachel Leigh Cook, Alan Cumming, Mickey Rourke, and Rhona Mitra. Michael Caine, who starred in the original, plays a supporting role...	Girl #2	as Lauren Smith
	Christy: The Movie	Christy Huddleston	TV movie; UK title: Christy: Return to Cutter Gap Christy: Return to Cutter Gap Christy: Return to Cutter Gap is a 2000 made-for-tv movie starring Lauren Lee Smith, Stewart Finlay-McLennan, James Waterston and Diane Ladd.- Summary outline :...
2001	The Wedding Dress	Hannah Pinkham	TV movie
2004	I Want To Marry Ryan Banks I Want to Marry Ryan Banks I Want to Marry Ryan Banks is a 2004 television film starring Jason Priestley, Bradley Cooper and Emma Caulfield.-Plot:When Ryan Banks gets a reputation for romancing the ladies, his agent Todd decides to create a television show where he has to choose the perfect lady to marry...	Lauren	TV movie
	The Survivors Club The Survivors Club (film) The Survivors Club is a 2004 CBS television film directed by Christopher Leitch. It is based on Lisa Gardner's novel-of-the-same-name. It stars Roma Downey, Jacqueline Bisset and Lauren Lee Smith as rape survivors. It premiered on 7 March 2004.-Plot:...	Meg Pasaturo	TV movie
2005	Lie with Me Lie with Me Lie with Me is a Canadian drama film with graphic sexual content that played at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival. It is based on the novel of the same name by Tamara Berger...	Leila
2006	The Last Kiss The Last Kiss The Last Kiss is a 2006 American romantic comedy-drama film which is based on the 2001 Italian film L'ultimo bacio, directed by Gabriele Muccino. The plot revolves around a young couple and their friends struggling with adulthood and issues of relationships and commitment.The film stars Zach Braff,...	Lisa
	Art School Confidential	Beatnik Beatnik Beatnik was a media stereotype of the 1950s and early 1960s that displayed the more superficial aspects of the Beat Generation literary movement of the 1950s and violent film images, along with a cartoonish depiction of the real-life people and the spiritual quest in Jack Kerouac's autobiographical...  Girl
	One Way One Way (film) One Way is a crime drama/psychological thriller, written and directed by Reto Salimbeni and produced by Til Schweiger. The film stars Schweiger, Michael Clarke Duncan, Lauren Lee Smith and Eric Roberts...	Angelina Sable
2007	Dragon Boys Dragon Boys Dragon Boys is a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation miniseries starring Eric Tsang, Byron Mann, Lawrence Chou, Tzi Ma, Lauren Lee Smith, Steph Song, Darryl Quon, Christina Ma, Jean Yoon, Simon Wong and Chang Tseng...	Kath	TV movie
	Normal Normal (2007 film) Normal is a 2007 Canadian drama film about a group of unrelated people who are brought together in the wake of a deadly car accident. The film was directed by Carl Bessai, and stars Carrie-Anne Moss, Kevin Zegers, Callum Keith Rennie and Andrew Airlie....	Sherri Banks
	Late Fragment Late Fragment Late Fragment is an Canadian interactive cinema production, written and directed by Daryl Cloran, Anita Doron and Mateo Guez. It is North America's first interactive feature film. The project is a co-production of Canadian Film Centre and the National Film Board of Canada. -Synopsis:Three...	Lea
2008	Pathology Pathology (film) Pathology is a 2008 thriller horror film directed by Marc Schölermann and written by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, the writers of Crank. The cast was announced on April 4, 2007 and filming started in May 2007...	Juliette Bath
	Anatomy of Hope	Cynthia Morgan	TV movie
	Helen	Mathilda
2009	Trick 'r Treat Trick 'r Treat Trick 'r Treat is a 2007 American horror film written and directed by Michael Dougherty, and based on his short film Season's Greetings. Originally slated for an October 5, 2007 release, it was announced in September 2007 that the film had been pushed back. Warner Bros...	Danielle
2011	Hindenburg	Jennifer van Zandt	TV movie 2 parter
	Girl Walks Into a Bar Girl Walks into a Bar Girl Walks Into a Bar is a 2011 multiple story line ensemble comedy film produced exclusively for Internet distribution. It is directed by Sebastián Gutiérrez from his own script, much like the anthology style of Gutiérrez's Women in Trouble, and follows a group of apparent strangers in...	Karen

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2000	Dark Angel Dark Angel (TV series) Dark Angel is an American biopunk/cyberpunk science fiction television series created by James Cameron and Charles H. Eglee. The show premiered in the United States on the Fox network on October 3, 2000, and was canceled after two seasons...	Natalie	as Lauren Smith, episode: "Pilot"
	2ge+her 2ge+her 2gether was an American fictional boy band whose composition, songs, and formation story is a satirical approach to the boy bands of the 1990s, such as New Kids on the Block, 'N Sync and Backstreet Boys... : The Series	Erin Evans	11 episodes
2001	Christy, Choices of the Heart, Part I: A Change of Seasons	Christy Huddleston	TV mini-series
	Christy, Choices of the Heart, Part II: A New Beginning	Christy Huddleston	TV mini-series
2001–2004	Mutant X Mutant X (TV series) Mutant X is a science fiction television series that debuted on October 6, 2001. The show was created by Marvel Studios, and it centers around Mutant X, a team of "New Mutants" who possess extraordinary powers as a result of genetic engineering. The members of Mutant X were used as test subjects...	Emma deLauro	Series Regular (season 1 & 2 - 44 episodes)
2003	The Twilight Zone The Twilight Zone The Twilight Zone is an American television anthology series created by Rod Serling. Each episode is a mixture of self-contained drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist...	Eve	episode: "Sunrise"
2004	The Dead Zone The Dead Zone (TV series) The Dead Zone, aka Stephen King's Dead Zone is an American-Canadian science fiction/suspense series starring Anthony Michael Hall as Johnny Smith, who discovers he has developed psychic abilities after a coma...	Bonnie Gibson	episode: "Total Awareness"
2004–2006	The L Word The L Word The L Word is an American co-production television drama series originally shown on Showtime portraying the lives of a group of lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people and their friends, family and lovers in the trendy Greater Los Angeles, California city of West Hollywood...	Lara Perkins	20 episodes
2006	Blade: The Series Blade: The Series Blade: The Series is a 2006 American live-action television program based on the Marvel Comics character and film series. It premiered on Spike on June 28, 2006...	Bethany	episode: "Hunters"
2006–2007	Intelligence Intelligence (TV series) Intelligence is a Vancouver-based television crime drama starring Ian Tracey and Klea Scott that aired on the CBC. With its pilot first airing on November 28, 2005, the series began regular broadcasting on October 10, 2006. CBC reaired the pilot on June 7, 2007 and began broadcasting reruns of...	Tina	10 episodes
2008–2009	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation CSI: Crime Scene Investigation CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is an American crime drama television series, which premiered on CBS on October 6, 2000. The show was created by Anthony E. Zuiker and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer...	Riley Adams Riley Adams Riley Adams is a fictional character in the CBS crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, portrayed by Lauren Lee Smith. She appeared in 22 episodes during the ninth season, starting with "Art Imitates Life" and ending with "All In".-Biography:...	21 episodes
2009	Can Openers	Susan	Television 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...
2010	Psych Psych Psych is an American detective comedy-drama television series created by Steve Franks and broadcast on USA Network. It stars James Roday as Shawn Spencer, a young crime consultant for the Santa Barbara Police Department whose "heightened observational skills" and impressive detective instincts...	Lillian	1 Episode
2011	The Listener The Listener (TV series) The Listener is a Canadian science fiction drama set in Toronto about a young paramedic named Toby Logan with the ability to listen to people's minds. The series premiered on Fox International Channels beginning with the Arabic-speaking area of northern Africa and south-western Asia on March 1, 2009...	Sgt. Michelle McCluskey	Season 2
2011	Good Dog Good Dog Good Dog is a Canadian television comedy-drama series which runs on HBO Canada. The show follows the life of character George, a role that Ken Finkleman is reprising from The Newsroom.-Characters:...	Claire

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