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Breakout actress Laura Ramsey holds her own in fall’s must-see comedy
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efore I had even learned how to pronounce Niçoise, a beautiful lady asked me if I was an actress. I said yes,” remembers Laura Ramsey, who was waiting tables at Le Petit Four in West Hollywood when übermanager Lena Roklin first discovered her. The very next day, the Wisconsin-born hopeful booked her first audition and has since appeared in Lords of Dogtown, “Mad Men” and, this month, stars as the widowed Angelina opposite funnymen
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Owen Wilson and Zach Galifianakis in Are You Here, a comedy about the nitty gritty of family inheritances and tangled friendship. “I think humor is a sign of intelligence. You can’t be taught to be funny. You have it or you don’t,” says the Los Angeles-based actress and mother who describes herself as a traveling, cooking and farmers’ market junkie. On whether she would ever appear on Galifianakis’ comedy talk show “Between Two Ferns,” Ramsey boldly quips, “Bring it on, Zach!” •
WRITTEN BY MEGAN MEYER. DIMITRY LOISEAU
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