And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very little about the personal lives of the characters.
But Elizabeth Mitchell - the actress who played Kerry's lover, Dr. Legaspi - won't be returning this season.
But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
I have a friend who is around my age, a little younger, and she's gay and came out to her own community when she was younger but not to her family and to the community at large.
I think they do a great job on Queer as Folk.
I'm straight and I have a lot of gay friends.
In each scene, actors and directors try to find an unexpected moment or subtext that's not obvious in the writing.
It was sort of that in-between area when people don't talk about their personal lives. That's the kind of life I think Kerry would be living now if it weren't for the Lopez character sort of outing her.
Our intention is to really explore this transition and, beyond that, explore the particular things that someone comes up against when they're gay or lesbian.
The story line was done in a way that's organic and was doled out very slowly in little bites. We think that's authentic for this character, that her feelings are very deeply buried or she never felt them.
The thing with Kerry is that all of this is a natural progression, her troubles. It's a cycle.
We try to be driven by what's a good story, what's truthful, and the drama of what happens next.
We've been back since July, but I spent some time with the family in the south of France over the summer. We rented a house with another couple and took it easy.
When interviewed by the UK's Radio Times in 2002, Laura revealed that her least enjoyable job was working at a vet's and cleaning up after the animals.
If Laura were not an actress, her chosen job would probably be teaching; in a 2002 Radio Times interview, she stated that the idea of influencing childrens' minds is inspiring to her.
Laura was first hired to appear in just six episodes of
Laura is a casual spokeperson for the National Marrow Donor Program, and is also listed on their bone marrow registry. She became aware of the importance of the registry through information shared by other parents in the international organization Families With Children From China (in 2002 Laura and husband
During the filming of one of the final scenes of the East Coast version of
Laura directed her husband,
In 2001, Laura was voted one of People magazine's "Ten Most Beautiful People" in its yearly online poll.
Laura has received three Emmy Award nominations: in 1997 and in 1998 as Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her portrayal of Dr. Kerry Weaver on
Laura's husband,
Laura drew inspiration for her portrayal of a physically challenged person from her sister Kathy, who contracted polio at the age of five and as a result was left without the use of her left arm.
Laura is a member of the Alpha Chi Omega sorority.
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