From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Laura Harling (born 21 March 1986) in England, is a British actress. In 1995, aged nine, she played the granddaughter of Belle, Scrooge's former fiancée, in an adaptation of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol with the Royal Shakespeare Company. After appearing in several television advertisements, Harling played her first television acting role in 1996 as Young Betsy in Catherine Cookson's The Girl which starred Jonathan Cake and Siobhan Flynn, and playe ...