Laura Haddock

Laura Jane Haddock was born on 21 August 1985^[1] in Enfield, London, to a reflexologist mother and a financier father.^[2] She was raised in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, where she attended St George's School.^[3] She left school at the age of 17 and moved to London to study drama. She trained at Arts Educational School in Chiswick.^[4]

Haddock made her television debut in the television pilot Plus One, part of the Comedy Showcase 2008.^[5] In 2009, Haddock played the lead role of Natasha in the ITV1 comedy drama Monday Monday, and appeared as Samantha in series two and three of How Not to Live Your Life.^[6]

In 2011, she appeared in the Cinemax/Sky TV drama Strike Back: Project Dawn for two episodes, as the kidnapped daughter of an illegal arms dealer. She starred as Lucrezia Donati,^[7] the mistress of Lorenzo de' Medici and lover of Leonardo da Vinci in the 2013 series Da Vinci's Demons.^[8] She played Alison, Will McKenzie's love interest, in The Inbetweeners Movie (2011),^[9] for which she was nominated for the Empire Award for Best Female Newcomer.^[10]

Haddock's theatre credits include Famous Last, which formed part of the 2009 Sky Arts Theatre Live! project,^[11] and Rutherford & Son at Northern Stage.^[12] In 2014, she portrayed Meredith Quill in Guardians of the Galaxy, a role she reprised in its 2017 sequel Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. She appears in the ITV series, The Level, and played Vivian Wembley in the 2017 film Transformers: The Last Knight.^[13]

In 2021, Haddock starred in a Christmas marketing campaign for British furniture and home accessories retailer OKA.^[14] In 2022, she starred as Maxine Meladze in the Netflix spy-adventure television series The Recruit.

Haddock married English actor Sam Claflin in July 2013 after dating for two years.^[15] They have a son and a daughter.^[16] On 20 August 2019, Haddock and Claflin announced their legal separation.^[17][18]