Laurie Boyle Crompton is an accomplished author and SAG stand-in and extra appearing in the unfocused background of hundreds of movies and TV shows. Laurie is aka: Cop #2 in Genie, Reporter #1 in The Undoing and recently fulfilled a lifelong dream: appearing as a dead body on Law & Order: SVU. Laurie grew up in Butler, PA before moving to New York at 18, an undisclosed number of years ago. Laurie's Books, [The Denim Diaries: a memoir (Lerner/Zest) Pretty in Punxsutawney, Freaky in Fresno (Blink/HarperCollins) Love & Vandalism, Blaze (or love in the time of supervillains), The Real Prom Queens of Westfield High (Sourcebooks) and Adrenaline Crush (FSG/Macmillan)] have won awards including The American Library Association’s ‘YA Books for Reluctant Readers.’ Besides authoring books for young people who don’t want to read, Laurie has written for national health and beauty care magazines including GLAMOUR and ALLURE, as well as trade publications for the toy industry.