[6] She began directing commercials after graduating from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.

"[10] Paste wrote that “Belsey demonstrates an immediate gift for naturalistic exchanges between these characters.

Her collaboration tonight with Morgan is the kind of director-actor output that we more commonly associate with cinema than with television, but the results are just as powerful.”[14] Den of Geeks wrote of PREACHER’s Les Enfants du Sang, it’s “Laura Belsey’s direction that pushes the episode toward comedic greatness.” [15] AV Club noted that her episode Human Target for ARROW “is damn near perfect.

"[16] while Geeks Worldwide declared that “Human Target is probably among the best directed Arrow episodes to date.

In August 2023, Laura Belsey was elected National Vice President of the Directors Guild of America, a position formerly held by Steven Soderbergh.