Laurie Rose

Misty Dawn
Seka and Misty Dawn (right) together at Internext Pictures on January 4, 2005
Born	Laurie Rose (1963-05-15) May 15, 1963 (age 54) Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.
Other names	Marla Lee Gardner, Lori Holmes, Laura Wren, Laurie Holmes, Lori Rose, Laurie Diamond
Height	5 ft 2 in (1.57 m)
Weight	100 lb (45 kg; 7.1 st)
No. of adult films	70 (including compilations) (per IAFD)

Misty Dawn (a.k.a. Marla Lee Gardner, Lori Holmes, Lori Rose, or Laurie Holmes; born May 15, 1963) is the stage name of a former adult industry performer. Dawn acted in pornographic films and videos, and was an exotic dancer. She married fellow pornographic actor John "Johnny the Wadd" Holmes in 1987, and after his death published his autobiography and appeared in several films about his life.

Dawn was born Laurie Rose on May 15, 1963, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Dawn began performing in adult films in 1982, at age 19, and continued until about 1991. After taking a 15-year hiatus, she returned as a fluffer in The World's Biggest Gang Bang III – The Houston 620 (1999). She also appeared in Voyer Vision (2003). Over the course of her career Dawn worked for the Golden Age production companies Beate Uhse, Caballero Home Video, Filmco Releases, Gourmet Video Collection, VCA Pictures, and VCX.

As Laurie Holmes, she appeared in multiple documentaries about "Johnny Wadd" Holmes and the adult film industry, including: Wadd: The Life & Times of John C. Holmes (1998),The Other Hollywood (1999), XXXL: The John Holmes Story (2000), and John Holmes: The Man, the Myth, the Legend (2004).

For a brief time in the mid-1980s, she and Holmes partnered with Bill Amerson in an adult film company known as Penquin Productions. The couple also lived in Amerson's mansion in the hills of Sherman Oaks. Johnny Wadd Holmes was godfather to Amerson's children.