Laura Daniel (born 25 November 1990) is an actress and comedian from
New Zealand
New Zealand () is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and List of islands of New Zealand, over 600 smaller islands. It is the List of isla ...
.
Career
She currently reports on television show ''
Seven Sharp''. Previously, she has starred in the television series ''
Funny Girls'' and ''
Jono and Ben''.
She has also worked on ''
7 Days''.
[ She was the voice of Riley in the animated television series ''The Barefoot Bandits'' and has performed in theater and musical theater productions. Daniel also sang "This Is For My Girls" with Teuila Blakely, Daisy Lawless, ]Lucy Lawless
Lucille Frances Lawless (; born 29 March 1968) is a New Zealand actress and director. She is best known for her roles as Xena in the television series ''Xena: Warrior Princess'', as Number Three (Battlestar Galactica), D'Anna Biers on the re-im ...
, Saraid Cameron, Kimberley Crossman
Kimberley Frances Crossman (born 1990) is a New Zealand actress, author, presenter, producer, writer, director, dancer, stand-up comedian and cheerleader who is best known for her role as Sophie McKay on the New Zealand soap opera '' Shortland ...
, Kura Forrester, and Ilah Cooper.
Daniel won series 2 of ''Taskmaster New Zealand
''Taskmaster New Zealand'' (also known as ''Taskmaster'' or ''Taskmaster NZ'' especially prior to season 4) is a New Zealand comedy panel game show, first broadcast in 2020 on TVNZ 2. The format for the show was created by British comedian Alex ...
'' in 2021. The same year she appeared on the panel show ''Patriot Brains
''Patriot Brains'' is a New Zealand comedy panel game show, airing on TVNZ 2 in New Zealand and SBS Viceland in Australia since April 2021.
Premise
The show, hosted by English comedian Bill Bailey in series 1 and Sue Perkins in series 2, f ...
''.
She is a big fan of the Eurovision Song Contest
The Eurovision Song Contest (), often known simply as Eurovision, is an international Music competition, song competition organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) among its members since 1956. Each participating broadcaster ...
and has campaigned for New Zealand to take part.
In 2023, Daniel appeared on ''Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont-Spelling Bee
''Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont-Spelling Bee'' is a New Zealand television comedy panel show on Three, created and presented by Guy Montgomery and co-hosted by Sanjay Patel. The show is loosely based on a spelling bee: each episode, four comedian ...
''.
Personal life
She is in a relationship with fellow comedian Joseph Moore with whom she performs as the comedy duo Two Hearts.
Television
References
External links
Auckland Actors profile and list of recent projects
Living people
New Zealand women comedians
1990 births
People from Palmerston North
21st-century New Zealand comedians
New Zealand sketch comedians
{{NewZealand-actor-stub