Career
She is frequently billed by her first name only, and sometimes as Lala Zappa. Born in Winter Park, Florida, Sloatman"s first name is the Hawaiian form of Laura. Her father is second-generation Marine John Sloatman III, whose sister Gail is musician Frank Zappa"s widow.
Sloatman ultimately moved to Santa Barbara, California, and after that to Los Los Angeles
She has numerous half-siblings on both sides of her family. In the 1980s, Sloatman appeared in the films Watchers (1988) and Dream a Little Dream (1989), alongside her then-boyfriend Corey Haim.
Haim personally suggested her for the lead in a third movie, Prayer of the Rollerboys (1991), but she lost out to Patricia Arquette.