Laurel Kornfeld

Laurel Kornfeld has been an actress since early childhood. She started out in local and community theater, with most of her performances being in musicals. In the 1990s, she became a "scream queen," acting in numerous horror films, which she continues to do to this day. Most recently, she has played villains in "Psycho-Therapy," which premiered at the 2019 Northeast Horror Film Festival, "Relentless," and "Desolate Soul and the Lingering Ghost." A New Jersey native, Laurel attended Rutgers and Harvard Universities. She is also a writer and a progressive political activist and obtained a Graduate Certificate of Science in astronomy at Swinburne University. Laurel does freelance writing on astronomy-related topics and recently published two feature articles in the well-known British magazine "Astronomy Now." A fearsome advocate for Pluto's planet status, she has leveraged her advocacy for Pluto into a trademark, earning the nickname "Plutogirl," with an ongoing gag of trying to get mention of Pluto into as many of her films as possible.." An ageless, free-spirited redhead, Laurel is quirky, offbeat, comedic, outspoken, and in her own words, "an eternal hippie," who typically plays eccentric characters. She is working on a book "The Little Planet That Would Not Die: Pluto's Story."