Laura Leighton Interview

Laura Leighton

Laura Leighton (born July 24, 1968) is an American Actress. She is best-known for the role of Sydney Andrews, introduced in the ’90s television series Melrose Place. She reprised the role in the 2009 series of the same name.

Leighton was born Laura Miller in Iowa City, Iowa, and is a 1986 graduate of West High School in Iowa City. She assumed her grandfather’s surname in 1988.

Leighton previously dated Melrose Place co-star Grant Show in the mid-1990’s. In 1998, she married her Melrose Place co-star Doug Savant.

They have two children together: Jack (born October 2000) and Lucy (born June 2005). She also raises Savant’s two children from a previous marriage.