Laurie David (born Laurie Ellen Lennard, March 22, 1958) is an American environmental activist. She produced the Academy Award-winning An Inconvenient Truth. She serves as a trustee on the Natural Resources Defense Council and a member of the Advisory Board of the Children's Nature Institute and is a contributing blogger to The Huffington Post. David was born and raised in a middle class Jewish family on Long Island. In 1979, she graduated from Ohio University with a degree in journalism. She was married for 14 years to Larry David (co-creator of Seinfeld and creator of Curb Your Enthusiasm). They married in 1993, and Laurie David filed for divorce on July 19, 2007. Before working full-time on environmental and political issues, David worked in the entertainment industry. She began her career in New York City as a talent coordinator for the David Letterman show. Four years later she left to start her own management company, representing comedians and comedy writers. She also produced several comedy specials for HBO, Showtime, MTV, and Fox Television. Upon moving to Los Angeles, she became vice president of comedy development for a division of Fox Broadcasting and developed sitcoms
Larry David's ex-wife Laurie just blasted a report that she was involved in an affair with Al Gore -- calling the story a "total fabrication."Laurie just told the Huffington Post, "The story is… READ MORE >
