Laurie Zimmer is an American former actress best known for her role as Leigh, the courageous secretary of the besieged police station, Precinct 9, Division 13, in John Carpenter

John Carpenter

John Howard Carpenter is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, editor, composer, and occasional actor. Although Carpenter has worked in numerous film genres in his four-decade career, his name is most commonly associated with horror and science fiction.- Early life :Carpenter was born...

's 1976, Howard Hawks

Howard Hawks

Howard Winchester Hawks was an American film director, producer and screenwriter of the classic Hollywood era...

-inspired, action film, Assault on Precinct 13

Assault on Precinct 13 (1976 film)

Assault on Precinct 13 is a 1976 American action-thriller film written and directed by John Carpenter. It stars Austin Stoker as a police officer who defends a defunct precinct against an attack by a relentless criminal gang, along with Darwin Joston as a convicted murderer who helps him. Laurie...

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Acting career

Zimmer had a brief acting career during the mid-to-late 1970s. After playing the female lead opposite Darwin Joston

Darwin Joston

Francis Darwin Solomon was an American actor known professionally as Darwin Joston...

 and Austin Stoker

Austin Stoker

Austin Stoker is an American actor known for his role as Lt. Ethan Bishop, the police officer in charge of the besieged Precinct 9, Division 13, in John Carpenter's Howard Hawks-inspired, 1976 film, Assault on Precinct 13...

 in Assault on Precinct 13, Zimmer appeared (as Laura Fanning) in two 1977 French films: Jean Eustache

Jean Eustache

Jean Eustache was a French filmmaker. During his short career, he completed numerous shorts, in addition to a pair of highly regarded features, of which the first, The Mother and the Whore, is considered a key work of post-Nouvelle Vague French cinema.In his obituary for Eustache, the influential...

's Une sale histoire

Une sale histoire

Une Sale Histoire is an unusual short film of two halves, or two related short films tagged on to each other, by French director Jean Eustache....

("A Dirty Story") and Charlotte Szlovak

Charlotte Szlovak

-Career:Szlovak began her film career as the cinematographer of Chantal Akerman's 1974 experimental film Je, tu, il, elle , but she is now best known as the writer and director of independent documentary films....

's Slow City, Moving Fast (also known by the French title D'un Jour a L'Autre). Shortly thereafter, Zimmer's career stalled, and, after playing her fourth role (in 1979's television movie Survival of Dana), she permanently retired from acting.

Do You Remember Laurie Zimmer?

In 2003, Szlovak, who had directed Zimmer in Slow City, Moving Fast, released her documentary film, Do You Remember Laurie Zimmer?

Do You Remember Laurie Zimmer?

Do You Remember Laurie Zimmer? is a 2003 documentary film written and directed by French filmmaker Charlotte Szlovak. It was released in France under the alternate titles, Laura, disparue, recherchée and Qui se souvient de Laurie Zimmer?...

. The film chronicles Szlovak's search to discover why Zimmer quit acting, where she is now, and what she is doing.

The film reveals that Zimmer now lives near San Francisco, California

San Francisco, California

San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland...

, works as a teacher, is married to actor Bruce Steele, and has two sons: musician Julian Steele of the band The K.O. Bros, and performance artist Max Steele.

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