Laur Allen

Laur Allen (born March 9) 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.

Early life
Laur Allen was born in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. She was raised in Pasadena, California.

Allen is the daughter of a Jewish father and a Chinese mother.

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.

Beauty pageants
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. 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.

Career
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.

Allen starred in the 2021 holiday romance film Christmas at the Ranch, playing the character Haley Hollis.