AN actress who has starred in some of the most popular films and TV shows of all-time looks unrecognisable three decades after one of her biggest hits.
She was recently spotted out and about in Los Angeles, looking very different from her role in Pretty Woman as sassy Kit De Luca, the best friend of Julia Roberts’ Vivian Ward.
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Laura San Giacomo starred opposite Julia Roberts in the latter’s breakout role, Pretty Woman, in 1990.
The 62-year-old also played journalist Maya Gallo in hit 90s sitcom, Just Shoot Me!, opposite David Spade.
In the recent photos, Laura looks like she hasn’t aged a day since the timeless classic and sported ashy blonde hair as she went about her day.
Laura completed the chic look with black denim cargos, a cream boho shirt and stand-out silver chain around her neck.
The actress started her career in theatre and TV her own star-making role in 1989’s Sex, Lies and Videotape for which she won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association New Generation Award.
Laura was also nominated for a Bafta and Golden Globe for her performance in the sexy dramedy which won the prestigious Palme D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
She has had a prolific career over the past four-and-half decades including appearing in TV series such as, Grey’s Anatomy, NCIS, Saving Grace, Barry and Veronica Mars.
One of her major roles was in the long-running sitcom Just Shoot Me! for which she was also nominated for a Golden Globe.
The TV comedy saw her play a serious and smart-mouthed journalist who ends up working at the fictional fashion magazine, Blush, which she looked down her nose at and was owned by her father.
Just Shoot Me! ran for seven seasons and was created by Steven Levitan, who later was one of the co-creators of Modern Family.
Laura San Giacomo stars along side Tom Selleck in Quigley Down Under
Laura has been married twice and shares son Mason with first husband, Cameron Dye.
Mason, 29, has cerebral palsy and Laura has become a vocal advocate for people with disabilities.
“We don’t have a really constructive or positive view of disability really around the world,” she told Oprah.com in 2016.
“But what would happen if the doctor said to you, instead of these ridiculously heartbreaking predictions—which are so often not true—why don’t they say to you, ‘Look, this is the greatest gift you’re going to be given. This is the chance for you to become smarter and more inventive than you ever thought you would be. You are being called to the biggest plate of your life’,” she added.
In 2021, Laura became the board secretary of Momentum Wheels for Humanity, an international wheelchair charity.
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