Summary: Short, anecdotal sidebar to a photo of Laurie that appeared in Esquire magazine in January 2002. You can also see a formatted version with the photo at Esquire Online.

It started when she was six years old, when she stepped in at the last minute to play Rock Hudson's daughter in a miniseries her stepfather was directing. (A confident little pip, she told Hudson he was reading his lines wrong.) She tried to shake it by going to college to study economics, only to end up studying acting at UCLA. The woman can't help it. The child of two actors, Holden was destined to be here?opposite Jim Carrey in this month's pleasantly schmaltzy The Majestic. "I came out of the womb and they thought, Voil??another actress!" she says. To which we say: What took you so long?

?Christopher Berend