Whatever Happened To Marlene Lawston From Blue Bloods?
Andrew Henderson
Published Mar 09, 2026
While it's not uncommon for TV roles to be recast after the pilot episode, what makes Marlene Lawston's recasting a bit unusual is the fact that her IMDb page lists "Blue Bloods" as her last acting role. The 25-year-old simply stopped acting after "Blue Bloods." Even her social media accounts are devoid of information, with her last Twitter post made in 2013, and her last Instagram post in 2019. One thing we know for sure is that Lawston is attending the University of Rochester's School of Medicine & Dentistry.
Lawston previously attended Colgate University, and in 2018, she was invited to the Beckman Scholars Program after writing a research paper titled "Cavefish: A New Model Organism for the Study of Mechanosensory Progenitor Cells." In 2020, she received the NIH Oxford-Cambridge Scholarship, which allows her to "complete her M.D. at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and her Ph.D. jointly at the NIH and Oxford or Cambridge." She thanked the Beckman Foundation in the announcement "for giving me the amazing research and connection opportunities."
Lawston may have walked away from acting and the spotlight, but she hasn't disappeared. She's simply living her life the way she wants, and it sounds like we can expect great things from Dr. Marlene Lawston in the future.