She appeared in several ABC weekend specials and in 1980 was in Portrait of an Escort. In 1981, she appeared with Kim Richards as one of two daughters of a blended family in the pilot Why Us?, but this was not picked up as a series. Shortly thereafter, she was cast in Gimme a Break. In 1983, she appeared in High School U.S.A. with Michael J. Fox. She next had appearances on Mr. Belvedere, Eerie, Indiana, Charmed, The West Wing, Becker, Without a Trace, and ER.
She appeared in the games Saints Row, Saints Row 2, Saints Row: The Third and Saints Row IV as Jane Valderama, a news reporter and radio station DJ respectively. Lauri graduated from Beverly Hills High School in 1983 and is now a member of SAG-AFTRA in Los Angeles
