Laura studied Drama and Theatre at Trinity College, Dublin, graduating in 2004. Whilst there, she enjoyed performing in the Samuel Beckett Centre as Liz Morden in Our Country's Good (Timberlake Wertenbaker) and as Verity in Olwen Wymark's Find Me. Laura studied education at Cambridge University in 2008-09 and since then has been involved in numerous stage productions in London and Belfast.