A learning disability led the a teenage Lara Flynn Boyle to become an actress. In grade school, she discovered that she had integration disorder, which causes problems processing information while reading. As part of her treatment, Lara began attending the prestigious Piven Theater, to try and find another outlet for her expression. She took an improvisational workshop for young actors.
She won a scholarship to the Chicago Academy for the Arts, an elite private high school for the performing arts. She loved the school, and ate up all the opportunities in theatre. She wrote, starred in, and worked on lots of different plays during her stay.
In 1985, at the age of 15, she auditioned for the role of daughter to the Robert Urich character on ABC's controversial miniseries, "Amerika". She spent nine months on location in Nebraska and Toronto. "I suppose everyone always has the fondest memories of their first film. I was treated like a queen. Donald Wyre gave me a diamond pendant for my birthday, and in Nebraska, I got invited to Five proms. I was also necking passionately on screen for the first time with a 25-year-old actor."
Following graduation, she and her mother moved to Los Angeles. A role on "Twin Peaks," as Donna Hayward, lauched Lara Flynn to the top. Despite taking many film roles through her career (most notably probably as Mike Myers annoying girlfriend Stacy in Wayne's World), it seems television has been the true venue for Lara to grow, as she starred in NBC's The Practice.
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