Lauren Ambrose

Lauren Ambrose is an American film, television, and stage actress. She is known for her television roles as Claire Fisher in Six Feet Under , for which she won two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and as Jilly Kitzinger in Torchwood Miracle Day . Her film credits include Cant Hardly Wait and Psycho Beach Party .

Ambrose was born Lauren Anne DAmbruoso in New Haven, Connecticut. She is the daughter of Anne , an interior designer, and Frank DAmbruoso, a caterer. She is of Italian descent on her fathers side and German, English, and Irish on her mothers. Ambrose attended Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, Connecticut, Wilbur Cross High School, High School in the Community, and the ACES Educational Center for the Arts in New Haven. She is also a trained opera singer who studied voice and opera at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute.

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