Laura Harling

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Laura Harling (born 21 March 1986) in England, is a British actress. In 1995, aged nine, she played the granddaughter of Belle, Scrooge's former fiancée, in an adaptation of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol with the Royal Shakespeare Company. After appearing in several television advertisements, Harling played her first television acting role in 1996 as Young Betsy in Catherine Cookson's The Girl which starred Jonathan Cake and Siobhan Flynn, and played Young Jane in Jane Eyre in 1997. Other appearances include The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1997), Invasion: Earth (1998), Nightworld: Lost Souls (1998), Casualty (1999), and Little Em'ly in David Copperfield (1999), which starred Daniel Radcliffe, Bob Hoskins and Maggie Smith. More recently, Harling has appeared in the Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film and Oscar winning film Gosford Park (2001), and, for the BBC, in My Family (2004), and Silent Witness in 2006. In 2007 Harling took a BA in Fine Art at Kingston University. ​