Personal
Prior to her entertainment career, Laybourne was a teacher at bucolic Concord Academy in Massachusetts, she conducted research with children and she was an early advocate of education through media when she founded the Media Center for Children.
Laybourne is a Democrat who supported Hillary Clinton for president in 2008. However, much of her family is North Dakota Republicans.
She and her husband have two children, Emmy, a writer and actress who appeared in Superstar and other films, and Lawrence Paterson ("Sam"), a writer and producer for television series such as Arrested Development and Cougar Town. When Emmy and Sam were children, Laybourne and her husband would frequently use their children in pilots and promos for Nickelodeon, filmed mostly at their house. The kids also had some say in what should go on the air.
Laybourne has four grandchildren. She envisions a future world of media consumption where lines between television and the Internet blur.
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