Born in British Columbia, Canada, Laura Harris began acting at age six, working professionally in Vancouver for 14 years before focusing on feature film work. Following her television debut on Nickelodeon's popular teen soap opera Fifteen, Harris ironically landed her feature debut in Stay Tuned, a comical satire of bad television. Moving back to television with Sabrina, the Teenage Witch in 1996, Harris received her first substantial feature role in the botany-gone-bad scare-fest Habitat.