Laur Allen (born March 9)[1] is an American actress and beauty pageant winner. She is known for playing Juliet Helton in the American television soap opera, The Young and the Restless.
Laur Allen was born in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. She was raised in Pasadena, California.[1]
Allen is the daughter of a Jewish father and a Chinese mother.[2]
Allen attended Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and graduated with a bachelor's degree with a double major in communication studies and Spanish and a minor in corporate strategy. She moved back to Los Angeles and dove into production and behind-the-scenes aspect of acting.[1]
Allen won Miss Los Angeles Chinatown on January 14, 2012. She won the beauty pageant under the name Lauren Zhou Weinberger. Weinberger is the first queen with half-European and half-Chinese ancestry.[2] She represented Los Angeles at the Miss Chinese International Pageant 2013 in Hong Kong, China. She did not win the title but was awarded Miss Friendship.[1]
After minor acting roles, Allen was cast as Juliet on the American soap opera The Young and the Restless for an eight-episode run. She appeared in 92 episodes.[1]
Allen starred in the 2021 holiday romance film Christmas at the Ranch, playing the character Haley Hollis.[3]