Education
Woodland attended the Highly Gifted Magnet at North Hollywood High School from 1992 to 1995. She spent her summers in high school attending programs at the Boston Ballet and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. After graduating from high school, she attended the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University before transferring to the where she graduated magna cum laude with a major in history and a minor in religion.
In 2011, she obtained a law degree from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law where she served as managing editor of the University of California, Los Angeles Entertainment Law Review.
Career
Before entering the field of law, she appeared in more than 50 commercials, guest starred in more than 20 television programs and starred as a series regular in four television series. She is an attorney with the Los Angeles-based law firm Browne George Ross Limited Liability Partnership. Woodland has been acting since childhood. In 1989, she appeared in the Fox Network science fiction series Alien Nation as the child newcomer Emily Francisco.
She reprised her role in the 5 Alien Nation television movies.
Woodland has numerous soap opera credits, including a 1998 role as Sara Cummings on the soap opera Sunset Beach, a role as Janelle on Portuguese Charles in February 1999, and as Brittany Hodges Marsino on The Young and the Restless, which she portrayed from March 2000 until November 2005. Awards and nominations Lauren Woodland was born on October 28, 1977 in Carson City, Nevada.
She received her first acting role when she was just 6 years old (an Oscar Mayer Weiner hot dog commercial) and moved to Southern California to pursue an acting career. Her family already had a distinguished history in California: her great-grandaunt was Julia Morgan, architect of Hearst Castle.
She is active in her support of the arts and in helping aspiring young actors.
She serves as Vice-President of the Los Angeles Dance Company, a neo-classical and contemporary dance company, founded by former American Ballet Theater soloist Marie-France Lévesque, dedicated to supporting and advancing the art of dance.
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She also appeared on an episode of Cold Case entitled "Stand Up and Holler" which premiered April 1, 2007.
Membership
Lauren is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Castro Organ Devotees Association, a San Francisco nonprofit organization founded by David Hegarty, dedicated to keeping the art of organ music alive through the acquisition and restoration of the Wurlitzer pipe organ in the Castro Theatre, San Francisco.