Honey Lauren is a multi-award winning, writer, director and actress with over 100 film and television credits, and dozens of commercials. Along the way, she was christened "the female Christopher Walken".
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A native of Los Angeles, she grew up in LA, San Francisco, and New York. Emancipated at sixteen-years-old, Honey began studying in the professional acting program at the prestigious A.C.T. in San Francisco. From there, she joined The Angels Of Light, an infamous theatre and dance troupe, which was an offshoot of The Cockettes, a drag group that featured such stars as Sylvester and Divine. She performed all over San Francisco in a variety of venues, and also appeared as a dancer for the rock group The Tubes before returning to Los Angeles, mastering her craft with a multitude of film & television credits.
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Honey’s film credits include the lead in the award-winning film, MEN CRY BULLETS, which Roger Ebert called “the best cult film of the future”; the lead in counter-cultural maverick filmmaker Doris Wishman’s SATAN WAS A LADY; and a featured role in Francis Ford Coppola’s DRACULA.

Some of Honey’s television credits include HBO’s DEADWOOD, recurring roles on DAYS OF OUR LIVES, MANI, ALL MY CHILDREN, PORT CHARLES and COMEDY CENTRAL’S HOME FRIES, to name a few. She recently completed vanguard artist Paul McCarthy’s feature DADDA & NIGHT VADER, and Luc Besson’s JUNE AND JOHN. 

​Honey is also a produced and published film and television writer. She has written for directors including Abel Ferrara and Melvin Van Peebles. Her feature screenplay, MISTAKE won the AOIFF (Action on Film Festival) and HDIFF Writer’s Awards, and her screenplay STRANGED was a semi-finalist in the prestigious Austin Film Festival Screenwriting Competition. Her screenplays THOUGHT DISORDER, and WIVES OF THE SKIES were finalists in the Slamdance Screenplay Competition. Honey’s television pilot, STARGIRLS was a semi-finalist at the acclaimed Shore Screenwriting Competition,

Her short film, DOT GOT SHOT won five major festivals including BEST FEMALE FILMMAKER and the acclaimed, WOMAN WITH A VISION AWARD.  Honey’s short documentary HAPPY HANDS, with Tippi Hedren, has won six film awards, and qualified for the Academy Awards in 2014. Honey’s short film WIVES OF THE SKIES garnered over 40 awards and had worldwide distribution with Hewes Pictures, LLC. 

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Honey recently wrote and directed her first feature, MISTAKE with producer, Brad Wyman (MONSTER 2003). She co-wrote and is set to direct her next feature, RIFLE DOLL, in 2026.