Lauren Christine German 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.

Early life
German was born in the Orange County suburb of Huntington Beach, California Her father Richard German is a vascular surgeon. Her paternal grandfather, James German, was Dutch; born in Amsterdam in 1909. He immigrated with his family to the United States from the Netherlands when he was a child. The remainder of Lauren's ancestry is English. 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.