Lauren German

Lauren Christine German (born November 29, 1978) is an American actress. She had her first major role in the 2002 teen romantic drama film A Walk to Remember, followed by roles in the horror films The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) and Hostel: Part II (2007). From 2011 to 2012, German had a main role as DHS agent Lori Weston in the second season of the CBS police drama Hawaii Five-0, and from 2012 to 2015, she starred as Leslie Shay in the NBC drama Chicago Fire. From 2016-2021, she appeared as detective Chloe Decker in the American fantasy comedy-drama Lucifer.

German was born in the Los Angeles suburb of Huntington Beach, California.[3] Her father Richard German is a vascular surgeon.[4] Her paternal grandfather, James German, was Dutch;[5] born in Amsterdam in 1909, he immigrated to the United States from the Netherlands with his family as a child.[5] The remainder of Lauren’s ancestry is English.[5] She attended Los Alamitos High School and Orange County High School of the Arts and then enrolled at the University of Southern California, where she studied anthropology.