Omg, Vanderpump Rules OG Laura-Leigh was in all these blockbuster movies and TV shows
She landed some major roles
If you watched the early days of Vanderpump Rules, you definitely remember Laura-Leigh. She was Jax’s chaotic rebound who somehow made group therapy look like must-see TV.
Then she vanished from SUR, Jax dumped her outside an AA meeting, and boom… she was gone from our screens.
Or so it seemed. What most casual Pump Rules fans don’t realise is that Laura-Leigh quietly traded in goat-cheese balls for a seriously legit acting career, stacking up roles in hit movies and buzzy shows.
Let’s take a little nostalgia trip and stalk her IMDb, shall we? Spoiler: she ate.
We’re the Millers
@pumprulesfan Replying to @alorachristine Laura Leigh in We’re The Millers #bravotv #realitytv #vanderpumprules #pumprules #werethemillers #jenniferaniston #lauraleigh
This is the big one. Laura-Leigh literally left SUR, and Vanderpump Rules, to play Kymberly in the 2013 road-trip comedy We’re the Millers with Jennifer Aniston and Jason Sudeikis.
The movie was a huge box-office hit, earning well over $200 million worldwide and giving her a breakout studio credit.
It’s a blink-and-you-scream moment when you realise Jax’s ex is the stripper robbing clueless tourists on the big screen.
The Client List
At the same time, she was a series regular on Lifetime’s The Client List, playing Nikki Shannon opposite Jennifer Love Hewitt.
The show follows a suburban mum secretly working at a spa that offers “extra” services, with Laura-Leigh as one of the other girls at the parlour.
For someone we met crying in AA on Bravo, anchoring a steamy cable drama as part of the main ensemble was a serious glow-up.
Gossip Girl
Laura-Leigh in Gossip Girl?!? I remember Jax telling her she should move back to NYC for acting but had no idea she was in Gossip Girl until I rewatched it!!
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Before SUR shifts and goat-cheese balls, Laura-Leigh had already dipped into the Upper East Side.
She appears on Gossip Girl as Amanda Lasher in the season 2 episode “The Ex-Files,” the girl Blair and her minions completely terrorise when she dates Dan.
If you rewatch, it’s such a fun easter egg when you clock that this random Constance student is future Vanderpump Rules chaos.
Law & Order
Like every New York–trained actor ever, she did her Law & Order time.
Laura-Leigh guest-starred as Alicia Carson in an episode of the original series, ticking off that classic one-episode procedural rite of passage.
One year you’re playing a traumatised witness, a few years later you’re getting dumped by Jax Taylor on national TV, that’s what we call range, people.
Blue Bloods
Good ol’ laura leigh on blue bloods. Before i could turn on hulu i seen her bug eyes and thought “that cant be… but it was
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She later pops up again in CBS cop drama Blue Bloods as Ruby, in the episode “The Price You Pay,” keeping that procedural streak going well into the late 2010s.
It’s a quick appearance, but it proves she stayed in the game long after her SUR days, quietly booking solid network roles while her former castmates were busy opening bars and launching podcasts.
The Ward
Her film career actually started on a spooky note.
Before any Bravo fame, Laura-Leigh was cast as Zoey in John Carpenter’s psychological horror The Ward, playing one of the patients trapped in a seriously creepy psychiatric hospital.
It’s moody, jump-scary and about as far from slinging Pumptinis as you can get, and it shows she was getting proper genre cred early on.
Under the Silver Lake
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More recently, Laura-Leigh slid into full indie-girl territory.
She appears as Mae in the cult neo-noir Under the Silver Lake, sharing the screen with Andrew Garfield in a very dreamy, very weird Los Angeles mystery.
In between, she’s popped up in offbeat projects like Lost Angeles and the Taken parody Tooken, leaning into quirky, left-of-centre roles.
So while Bravo fans remember her as Jax’s messy rebound, Hollywood quietly booked her as the slightly dangerous girl you can’t stop watching.
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