She starred as Lucrezia Donati, the mistress of Lorenzo de' Medici and lover of Leonardo da Vinci in the 2013 series Da Vinci's Demons. In 2011, she appeared in the Cinemax/ Sky TV drama Strike Back: Project Dawn for two episodes, as the kidnapped daughter of an illegal arms dealer. In 2009, Haddock played the lead role of Natasha in the ITV1 comedy drama Monday Monday, and appeared as Samantha in series two and three of How Not to Live Your Life. Haddock made her television debut in the television pilot Plus One, part of the Comedy Showcase 2008. She trained at Arts Educational School in Chiswick. She left school at the age of 17 and moved to London to study drama. She was raised in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, where she attended St George's School. Haddock was born in Enfield, London, to a reflexologist mother and a financier father. 2 and Viviane Wembly in Transformers: The Last Knight. She is known for portraying Zoë Walker in White Lines, Max Meladze in The Recruit, Lucrezia in Da Vinci's Demons, Meredith Quill in Guardians of the Galaxy and its sequel Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. Laura Jane Haddock (born 21 August 1985) is a British actress.