Lauren Woodland Celebrates Her Birthday – Learn More About Her Here!

October 27, 2019

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Lauren Woodland is celebrating her 42nd birthday today.

Lauren Woodland was born on October 28, 1977, in Carson City, Nevada. She is an American actress and attorney. 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, the architect of Hearst Castle.

Before going into the field of law, Woodland appeared in over 50 commercial and guest-starred in more than 20 TV programs. She starred as Emily Francisco in Alien Nation and Brittany Hodges Guitierrez on The Young and the Restless. She received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for her role in the CBS daytime soap. She is an attorney with the law firm Novian & Novian, LLP.

Woodland attended the Highly Gifted Magnet at North Hollywood High School from 1992 to 1995. She spent many of 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 University of Southern California where she graduated magna cum laude with a major in history and a minor in religion. In 2011, she obtained a J.D. degree from the UCLA School of Law where she served as managing editor of the UCLA Entertainment Law Review

Woodland’s other soap credits include; Janelle on Port Charles and Sara Cummings on Sunset Beach. Today, she is active in her support of the arts and in helping aspiring young actors. She also 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.

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.

Happy birthday Lauren, be sure to let her feel the birthday love on social media.