Cinta Laura

Laura attain a great success at Columbia University, New York City, allowing her to graduate a year earlier than expected. She is also a teaching assistant (TA) for Professor Herbert S. Terrace in Columbia’s psychology department. While at Columbia, she joined the sorority Kappa Alpha Theta. Laura graduated cum laude from the university in May 2014. Additionally, after graduate she move to Los Angeles in order to pursue her acting career in Hollywood, signing her contract under Netflix and Grindstone Entertainment Group.

In 2019, Laura came back with her new English single Caliente and Vida after 7 years hiatus. She also starred in several Indonesian films such as Target (2018), MatiAnak (2019) and Jeritan Malam (2019).

In 2013, she decided to move to Los Angeles. In addition, Laura was offered to act in a Hollywood-produced movie After the Dark (2013), starring Bonnie Wright and James D’Arcy. Laura work together with Grindstone Entertainment Group, continuing her acting at The Ninth Passenger (2018) by Hollywood producer Corey Large. She has also appeared on several Netflix Lifetime films, such as Crazy For The Boys (2018), TAR (2018), Goodnight (2018) and The Nanny Is Watching (2018). Laura won a "Best Film Actress" at the "2019 Latino Film awards", for the movie Goodnight (2018).

She also filming her TV soap series, Upik Abu dan Laura (2008) and Air Mata Cinta (2009), which was a tremendous success in Indonesia and Malaysia aired in RCTI and TV3 (Malaysia). Following her success, she released several songs You Say Aq, Guardian Angel, Cinta Atau Uang, Tulalit, Boomerang and Playlist for her second album Hollywood Dreams (2012).

Laura started her career in February 2007, debuted under MD Entertainment. Her first soap opera, Cinderella: Apakah Cinta Hanyalah Mimpi? aired on SCTV and TV2 (Malaysia) with 310 episodes, where she gain popularity and won ”2007 Indonesia's Best Actress” on 2007 SCTV Awards.

In 2007, Laura playing her first movie Oh Baby, where she also taking part on the film soundtrack, Oh Baby reigned in the no. 1 position of various charts in Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei Darussalam. Soon after that, she released her first self-titled studio album, Cinta Laura (2010). The album was released in February 2010 and sold over a million copies. In the summer of 2010, Cinta received the Wannabe Artist Award of 2010 Nickelodeon Indonesia Kids' Choice Awards.

Cinta Laura Kiehl, better known as Cinta Laura (Indonesian: [ˈtʃinta ˈlaura] ; German: [ˈtʃiːn'ta 'laʊʁa] born 17 August 1993), is a German-Indonesian actress, electropop singer and model in Indonesia. She was recently appointed ambassador of anti-violence against women and children by the Indonesian Ministry of Women Empowerment and Child Protection.

Laura was born on 17 August 1993 in Quakenbrück, Lower Saxony, Germany. Her father, Michael Kiehl, was a German hotelier, and her mother, Herdiana Soekarseno, was an Indonesian lawyer of ethnic Sundanese and Balinese descent. Due to her father’s job, Laura grew up in several countries such as the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Singapore, Germany and Indonesia, which led her to grow up with English, Indonesian and German as her language. Upon her move to Indonesia at 12 years old, Laura become an Indonesia's national swimmer, she won 10 gold medals, 7 silver medals and 7 bronze medals from various swimming competition.