Fan Casting Laura Sawyer in Off Camera

Occupation: Veteran News Anchor Born into an upper-middle-class family in Connecticut, Laura grew up fascinated by television journalism. She attended Northwestern University's journalism program before beginning her career as a local reporter. Over three decades, she worked her way from field reporting to investigative journalism and eventually became the principal evening anchor for one of the country's most respected news networks. Laura has been married to Mark for nearly thirty years and has built her entire adult identity around being a successful journalist, wife, and mother. Her carefully constructed life begins unraveling when her private desires collide with the public persona she has spent decades cultivating.