Who is Lauren Miller Rogen?

Miller grew up in Lakeland, Florida.

She is Adele and Scott Miller’s daughter, and she has a brother called Danny. Miller went to the Lois Cowles Harrison Center for the Visual and Performing Arts for high school. Miller earned her bachelor’s degree in motion picture arts from Florida State University in 2003.She met Katie Anne Naylon, her college roommate, with whom she would later co-write For a Good Time, Call…, which was inspired by their shared experiences.

Works

Miller Rogen and her husband, Seth Rogen, also launched Hilarity for Charity in 2012 to raise awareness of Alzheimer’s disease among young people after her mother was diagnosed at the age of fifty-five. 

They have now raised about $10 million and have established themselves as pioneers in the fight against the illness. Her most recent film, Like Father, which she wrote and directed, will be released later this year on Netflix. Miller Rogen also serves on the board of the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine as the Alzheimer’s Patient Advocate, as well as the Dean’s Council at her alma mater, Florida State University’s Film School.

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Inspiring Talks by Lauren Miller Rogen

Interview

Notable quotes

  • “If someone else isn’t making it happen for you, make it happen yourself.”
  • “I’m feeling pretty fortunate. I’ve been having lots of lovely auditions and meetings, so I’m savoring the moment.”
  • “I wanted to stay in New York to pursue acting, but my dad urged me to get a four-year degree. Reading about the film school at Florida State University, he suggested I go there. I received my bachelor’s degree in 2003.”
  • “From a very young age, I wanted to be an actor, but I lived in a very small town in Florida where there weren’t any opportunities for that.”
  • “Girls will go see anything. They’re open and excited to go to the movies and laugh.”
  • “I love comedy, and I think that’s sort of what comes naturally to me.”
  • “We have over an hour of footage with Ken Marino. Same with Kevin Smith. Because you never know, when you let people who are so talented at improv go, what you’re going to get. You don’t want to strangle them with your own words, because probably what they’re going to say is way better.”
  • ‘Bridesmaids’ proved there was an audience there that we knew was there. It proved that women go to the movies. They want to see a story about themselves.
  • “From a very young age, I wanted to be an actor, but I lived in a very small town in Florida where there weren’t any opportunities for that.”
  • “I’m feeling pretty fortunate. I’ve been having lots of lovely auditions and meetings, so I’m savoring the moment.”