Oona Laurence
Biography: Oona Laurence (born August 1, 2002) is an American actress who is best known for originating the role of Matilda Wormwood in Matilda on Broadway alongside Bailey Ryon, Milly Shapiro, and Sophia Gennusa. She is a New York City-based child actress with credits in film, theatre, and television. After several appearances in regional theatre productions and minor roles in short films and television episodes, in 2012, Laurence auditioned for the new musical Matilda on Broadway. Laurence landed the role of Matilda, performing in the show from March 4 to December 15, 2013. After Matilda, Laurence transitioned to film acting appearing in Tumorhead, A Little Game, The Grief of Others, I Smile Back, Damsel, Lamb, and Southpaw, portraying the daughter of Jake Gyllenhaal and Rachel McAdams' characters. She has appeared on television in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Orange Is the New Black. In 2015, Laurence co-starred opposite Jake Gyllenhaal and Rachel McAdams in Antoine Fuqua's Southpaw. In 2016, she co-starred as Natalie in the film Pete's Dragon, and portrayed Jane Mitchell, the daughter of Mila Kunis' character Amy Mitchell, in Bad Moms. In 2017, Laurence co-starred opposite Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, and Elle Fanning in Sofia Coppola's The Beguiled. She is the voice of Hedgehog and additional characters in the Cartoon Network series Summer Camp Island. She also performs the theme song. Laurence lives in New York City and has two younger sisters, Aimee and Jetè, who are also actresses.
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Birthday: August 01, 2002
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Esther
2012-06-15
Esther
Overview: Little Esther is being held in a cellar by a farmer, against her will but for her own good.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-06-15
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Adultery
2023-02-10
Adultery
Overview: Recent victims of their parents divorce, two siblings throw a dinner party for their close college friends in an effort to feel grown up -- as the night goes on, guests begin to act anything but.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-02-10
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Writing You Down
Writing You Down
Overview: Playwright Alice Meyers reflects on the relationship that inspired tonight's performance.
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Original Language: en
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I Smile Back
2015-10-23
I Smile Back
Overview: Laney is an attractive, intelligent suburban wife and devoted mother of two adorable children. She has the perfect husband who plays basketball with the kids in the driveway, a pristine house, and a shiny SUV for carting the children to their next activity. However, just beneath the façade lie depression and disillusionment that send her careening into a secret world of reckless compulsion. Only very real danger will force her to face the painful root of her destructiveness and its crumbling effect on those she loves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-23
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The Grief of Others
2015-08-26
The Grief of Others
Overview: The Ryries have suffered a loss: the death of a baby just fifty-seven hours after his birth. Without words to express their grief, the parents, John and Ricky, try to return to their previous lives. The couple's children, ten-year-old Biscuit and thirteen-year-old Paul, responding to the unnamed tensions around them, begin to act out in exquisitely idiosyncratic ways. But as the family members scatter into private, isolating grief, an unexpected visitor arrives, and they find themselves growing more alert to the hurt, humor, warmth, and burdens of others—to the grief that is part of every human life but that also carries within it the power to draw us together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-26
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Lamb
2015-10-20
Lamb
Overview: Lamb, based on the novel by Bonnie Nadzam, traces the self-discovery of David Lamb in the weeks following the disintegration of his marriage and the death of his father. Hoping to regain some faith in his own goodness, he turns his attention to Tommie, an awkward and unpopular eleven-year-old girl. Lamb is convinced that he can help her avoid a destiny of apathy and emptiness, and takes Tommie for a road trip from Chicago to the Rockies, planning to initiate her into the beauty of the mountain wilderness. The journey shakes them in ways neither expects.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-20
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Southpaw
2015-03-24
Southpaw
Overview: Billy "The Great" Hope, the reigning junior middleweight boxing champion, has an impressive career, a loving wife and daughter, and a lavish lifestyle. However, when tragedy strikes, Billy hits rock bottom, losing his family, his house and his manager. He soon finds an unlikely savior in Tick Willis, a former fighter who trains the city's toughest amateur boxers. With his future on the line, Hope fights to reclaim the trust of those he loves the most.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-24
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Imaginapped
2015-05-02
Imaginapped
Overview: When her imaginary friend is kidnapped, Olivia has to go on an epic quest to get him back.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-05-02
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Pete's Dragon
2016-08-10
Pete's Dragon
Overview: For years, old wood carver Mr. Meacham has delighted local children with his tales of the fierce dragon that resides deep in the woods of the Pacific Northwest. To his daughter, Grace, who works as a forest ranger, these stories are little more than tall tales... until she meets Pete, a mysterious 10-year-old with no family and no home who claims to live in the woods with a giant, green dragon named Elliott. And from Pete's descriptions, Elliott seems remarkably similar to the dragon from Mr. Meacham's stories. With the help of Natalie, an 11-year-old girl whose father Jack owns the local lumber mill, Grace sets out to determine where Pete came from, where he belongs, and the truth about this dragon.
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-08-10
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Penny Dreadful
2013-07-19
Penny Dreadful
Overview: A novice crook gets involved in a ransom plot, but winds up kidnapping the wrong girl.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-07-19
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Little Boxes
2017-04-14
Little Boxes
Overview: It's the summer before 6th grade, and Clark is the new-in-town biracial kid in a sea of white. Discovering that to be cool he needs to act 'more black,' he fumbles to meet expectations, while his urban intellectual parents Mack and Gina also strive to adjust to small-town living. Equipped for the many inherent challenges of New York, the tight-knit family are ill prepared for the drastically different set of obstacles that their new community presents, and soon find themselves struggling to understand themselves and each other in this new suburban context.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-04-14
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Bad Moms
2016-07-28
Bad Moms
Overview: When three overworked and under-appreciated moms are pushed beyond their limits, they ditch their conventional responsibilities for a jolt of long overdue freedom, fun, and comedic self-indulgence.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-07-28
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A Little Game
2014-04-26
A Little Game
Overview: Ostracized at her posh new uptown school and shaken by the death of her beloved grandmother, a 10 year-old downtown girl finds an unlikely mentor in the form of an irascible chess-master, who uses the game to teach Max lessons in resilience, perseverance, and how to embrace inevitable change.
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-26
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Tumorhead
2014-10-11
Tumorhead
Overview: Jean's little sister, Mae, may be sick, but Jean is sick of it...Mae is a bully and gets everything she wants, including Jean's pennant flag.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-11
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The Beguiled
2017-06-23
The Beguiled
Overview: During the Civil War, at a Southern girls’ boarding school, young women take in an injured enemy soldier. As they provide refuge and tend to his wounds, the house is taken over with sexual tension and dangerous rivalries, and taboos are broken in an unexpected turn of events.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-06-23
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Vicky & Jonny
2015-09-11
Vicky & Jonny
Overview: A young woman's awakening from a dark past that shaped the choices she had made in her life. It is a story about a woman coming to terms with her memories and choosing to take responsibility for her choices.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-11
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A Bad Moms Christmas
2017-08-04
A Bad Moms Christmas
Overview: Amy, Kiki and Carla – three under-appreciated and over-burdened women – rebel against the challenges and expectations of the Super Bowl for mothers: Christmas. And if creating a more perfect holiday for their families wasn’t hard enough, they have to do all of that while hosting and entertaining their own mothers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-08-04
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Lily + Mara
2017-08-10
Lily + Mara
Overview: The beach is probably the worst place to take a wheelchair-bound patient with a compromised immune system, but Mara will do anything to make her little sister, Lily, happy. As they share their favorite memories, Mara realizes this beach outing will become a treasured memory as well.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-08-10
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Damsel
2017-08-29
Damsel
Overview: Eight-year-old Cal desperately craves attention from her childish father, and is prone to running away. John is a lonely widower whose life is filled with fear. When they meet one weekend in the shining woods of New England, their lives change forever.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-08-29
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Big Time Adolescence
2020-03-13
Big Time Adolescence
Overview: A seemingly bright and mostly innocent 16-year-old named Mo attempts to navigate high school under the guidance of his best friend Zeke, an unmotivated-yet-charismatic college dropout. Although Zeke genuinely cares about Mo, things start to go awry as he teaches Mo nontraditional life lessons in drug dealing, partying, and dating. Meanwhile, Mo’s well-meaning dad tries to step in and take back the reins of his son’s upbringing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-03-13
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Lost Girls
2020-01-28
Lost Girls
Overview: When Mari Gilbert's daughter disappears, police inaction drives her own investigation into the gated Long Island community where Shannan was last seen. Her search brings attention to over a dozen murdered prostitutes.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-01-28
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A Babysitter's Guide to Monster Hunting
2020-10-14
A Babysitter's Guide to Monster Hunting
Overview: Recruited by a secret society of babysitters, a high schooler battles the Boogeyman and his monsters when they nab the boy she's watching on Halloween.
Genres: Family Fantasy Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-14
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What We Found
2020-07-31
What We Found
Overview: Close friends Marcus and Holly begin their freshman year at a tough public high school in Baltimore County, Maryland. When Cassie, a well liked senior at the school, disappears suspiciously, both of their lives change forever. Together, will they find out what happened to Cassie? And after a dramatic confrontation, will any of them ever be the same?
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-07-31
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Wet Cement
2012-01-01
Wet Cement
Overview: Two friends explore friendship and differences in the world.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-01-01
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