Laura Haddock Children: Meet Pip Claflin, Margot Claflin

Publish date: 2023-11-22

Laura Jane Haddock was born on 21 August 1985 and is a British actress.

She is known for portraying Zoë Walker in White Lines, Kacie Carter in Honest, Lucrezia in Da Vinci’s Demons, Meredith Quill in Guardians of the Galaxy and its sequel Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Alison in The Inbetweeners Movie and Viviane Wembly in Transformers: The Last Knight.

Haddock was born in Enfield, London, to a reflexologist mother and a financier father. She was raised in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, where she attended St George’s School. She left school at the age of 17 and moved to London to study drama. She trained at Arts Educational School in Chiswick.

Haddock made her television debut in the television pilot Plus One, part of the Comedy Showcase 2008. Her other television credits include The Palace, My Family, The Colour of Magic, Marple: A Pocket Full of Rye, and Honest, in the lead role of Kacie Carter.

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 Michael Bay film Transformers: The Last Knight.

In 2021, Haddock starred in a Christmas marketing campaign for British furniture and home accessories retailer OKA. In 2022, she starred as Maxine Meladze in the Netflix comedy-drama The Recruit.