- Laura Haddock stars in White Lines as Zoe Walker, a woman who travels to Ibiza to solve the mystery of her brother's death.
- You may have seen the 34-year-old in Transformers, Guardians of the Galaxy or the period drama Da Vinci's Demons.
- Here's what you need to know about the English actress and mother-of-two.
On the new Netflix show White Lines, Laura Haddock plays Zoe Walker, a 30-something woman in the middle of a life-changing adventure. Zoe's brother, Axel (Tom Rhys Harries), disappeared in Ibiza in the '90s. When his body is discovered 20 years later, Zoe travels to Ibiza to unravel the mystery.
The English actress, who shares two children with Sam Claflin, has been in the game since she was 17, and has appeared in a swath of film and TV shows, like Guardians of the Galaxy, Transformers, and Da Vinci's Demons. Now 34, we have a suspicion that Haddock's performance in White Lines will catapult her to being an international household name. Here's what you need to know about the magnetic focal point of White Lines.
She was married to Me Before You star, Sam Claflin, for six years.
Laura Haddock met Sam Claflin, a fellow actor, in an audition for the movie My Week With Marilyn. Neither got the part—but they got together.
Claflin recalled their meet-cute in an interview with Yahoo in 2014, per Cosmopolitan. "I walked into an audition room, I saw her and I knew. I’m not kidding for the life of me. She was reading in for a part and it’s my fourth free call. I’ve done previously three auditions with this other girl reading and this girl walked in, and I walked out of the audition, couldn’t care less if I got the part. I called my agent, I said, 'Mate, I am in love.' He’s like, 'How did the audition go, mate?' I was like, 'No, no, you don’t understand. I have just met the woman I want to marry.'"
You may recognize Claflin from his work in the tear-jerker Me Before You, or the nail-biter The Hunger Games, or the truly harrowing film The Nightingale. Claflin also stars in Peaky Blinders, another binge-worthy show available on Netflix.
The couple married in 2013, when Haddock was 28 and Claflin was 27. However, in August 2019, Claflin and Haddock announced their separation in a joint statement on Instagram Stories. “Laura and I have decided to legally separate,” the statement said. “We will move forward with nothing but love, friendship and a deep respect for one another, whilst we continue to raise our family together.”
Haddock and Claflin have two children.
Haddock and Claflin have two kids together. Their son, Pip, is 4, and their daughter, Margot, is 2.
She brought her son to the set of Transformers: The Last Night.
Haddock's first role after becoming a mother was in Transformers: The Last Knight, an installment in Michael Bay's franchise, in 2017.
"They made it possible for me to have Pip on set and I was really supported as a mom," Haddock told the Daily Mail. "[Director] Michael Bay said that, in his eyes, the fact that I’d just had a baby only made me stronger. A man saying that to me was amazing. I felt empowered by having Pip and knew it was something I could do, albeit with help from my mum who travelled with us. We turned my trailer into Pip’s pad, filling it with toys and playmates."
Motherhood continues to inform the roles she takes. White Lines was her first after having her daughter, Margot. Speaking to the PA News Agency, per The Irish News, Haddock called her return to work a "huge" decision.
"Two babies at home and I wanted to make sure that if I was going to go back to work, which I really wanted to, that it was going to be the right job and I was going to be able to have that balance and have a real affinity for the character," Haddock said.
She had a small, but important, role in Guardians of the Galaxy.
Haddock plays Meredith Quill, the mother of Peter Quill (Chris Pratt). Meredith died when Peter—aka Starlord–was eight-years-old.
She hopes to return to the Guardians of the Galaxy series one day. "I loved being in Guardians," Haddock explained to ComicBook.com. "So I’m wondering if I could just try and morph into somebody else and become a bigger part in Guardians."
And, Haddock showed up in Captain America.
Haddock was an extra in the film, showing up to meet Captain America (Chris Evans) at a meet-and-greet. She was credited as an "audience seeker."
Like the rest of us, she's a huge fan of Money Heist.
Soon before being cast in White Lines, Haddock binged Money Heist. Immediately, Haddock knew she wanted to work with Álex Pina, its creator.
"I said to a friend of mine, it would be a dream to work with this guy. I love his head. His characters, his storylines are amazing," Haddock told The Bellisimo Files. A few days later, she received the script for White Lines. "The universe had heard me," she joked.
Her Instagram has behind-the-scenes White Lines content.
White Lines ended after 10 episodes, but the show goes on thanks to Haddock's Instagram, where she posts photos of the cast and crew behind the scenes. The show was filmed over the course of 25 weeks in Ibiza and Majorca, two of Spain's Balearic islands.
According to Haddock's photos, the cast had a blast filming in a Mediterranean paradise.
She and Marta Milans, who plays Kika in White Lines, appear to be especially close. "You are magical and I am so lucky to have you in my life," she wrote in a birthday tribute on Instagram.
For more White Lines, head to Instagram.
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