A fetching actress with a penchant for changing hair colors, Holly has never quite fulfilled her early promise. After a three-year stint on the daytime soap
All My Children, which netted her a Daytime Emmy nod, she became a familiar prime-time face as a sheriff's deputy on the eccentric small-town crime drama
Picket Fences. During her tenure, she made a bid for the big screen, playing Bruce Lee's wife in the biopic
Dragon and the object of desire opposite future husband Jim Carrey in
Dumb & Dumber. But her subsequent features failed (
Down Periscope,
A Smile Like Yours), as did her marriage, and by the late '90s she was best known as Carrey's ex. Although Holly continued to work steadily, she was relegated to supporting roles in big movies or large parts in indies. She reentered the spotlight in 2005 when she signed on to the hit crime series
NCIS.
Lauren Holly Fast Facts:
- Studied flute and drama at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art when she was 12.
- Roommate at Sarah Lawrence College was Robin Givens.
- Turned down the role filled by Courteney Cox in the 1994 film Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, starring Jim Carrey, whom she later married.
- Appeared in the Dixie Chicks' music video "Goodbye Earl."
- Founded Hollycould Productions with her father, screenwriter and producer Grant Holly.
- Amanda Peet was her maid of honor when she married third husband Francis Greco.
- Lauren Holly Relationships:
- Jim Carrey - Ex-husband
- Daniele Quinn - Ex-husband
- Alexander Holly - Brother
- Alexander Joseph Greco - Son
- Francis Greco - Husband
- George Greco - Son
- Grant Holly - Father
- Henry Charles Greco - Son
- Michael Holly - Mother
- Nick Holly - Brother
- College:
- Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY (BA in English Literature, 1985)
