Lauren German was born on November 29, 1978 in Huntington Beach, California. German attended the prominent Actor's Studio and attended USC. Lauren also trained as a dancer at the Orange County High School of the Arts (a.k.a. OCHSA). She has guest-starred on the hit TV series 7th Heaven and made her film debut in Down to You. She starred opposite Shane West and Mandy Moore in the 2001 sleeper hit A Walk to Remember.



Did all her own stunts in Hostel Part 2. Starred in two movies, What We Is Secret and A Walk to Remember, with Shane West, both in which her character's name is Belinda.