Best know for her role as Sydney Andrews on Fox’s primetime soap “Melrose Place” (1992-99), the flaming redheaded beauty Laura Leighton continued to grace the TV screen in a series of stand-out parts after leaving the iconic show.

Born Laura Miller on July 24, 1969, in Iowa City, IA, she assumed her grandfather’s last name in 1988. Leighton was a girl who kept herself busy in junior high by joining the choir, taking dance lessons and playing various sports. After graduating from West High School in Iowa City, she joined a signing and dancing troupe called “The Young Americans” – a group that