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Laura Wright (other)
Laura Wright (born 1970) is an American actress. Laura Wright may also refer to: * Laura Wright (literary scholar), vegan studies theorist * Laura Wright (author) (born 1970), American author of romance novels * Laura Wright (cricketer), Australian cricketer * Laura Wright (singer) (born 1990), English soprano * Laura Beltz Wright, member of the Alaska Territorial Guard during World War II * Laura Maria Sheldon Wright (1809–1886), American missionary * Laura Wright, CFO of Southwest Airlines#Employment, Southwest Airlines * Laura Wright, character from comic book ''Femforce'', secret identity of Nightveil * Laura Wright (Brookside), a character from British soap ''Brookside'' played by Jane Cunliffe {{hndis, Wright, Laura ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Wright
Laura Alice Wright (née Sisk; born September 11, 1970) is an American actress. She is best known for playing the roles of Allison "Ally" Rescott on ''Loving (TV series), Loving'' (1991 to 1995) and ''The City (1995 TV series), The City'' (1995 to 1997), Cassie Layne Winslow on ''Guiding Light'' (1997 to 2005) and Carly Corinthos (Spencer) on ''General Hospital'' (2005 to present). She won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her role on ''General Hospital'' in 2011. She has since received six more nominations in the same category. Early life Wright was born Laura Alice Sisk in Washington, D.C. and raised in Clinton, Maryland. She appeared in several high school plays such as ''Gypsy: A Musical Fable, Gypsy'', ''Our Town'', and ''You Can't Take It with You (play), You Can't Take It with You''. She also directed a school production of ''Father Says No''. She appeared in a few local commercials and numerous fashion shows. After high school, Wrigh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Wright (literary Scholar)
Laura Wright is a professor of English at Western Carolina University. Wright proposed vegan studies as a new academic field, and her 2015 book '' The Vegan Studies Project: Food, Animals, and Gender in the Age of Terror'' served as the foundational text of the discipline. As of 2021 she had edited two collections of articles about vegan studies. Education Wright received a bachelor's in English from Appalachian State University in 1992, an MA in English from East Carolina University in 1995, and a PhD in Postcolonial Literature and World Literature from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2004. Academic interests In addition to vegan studies, Wright's academic and research interests include postcolonial literature and theory, South African literature, ecocriticism, animal studies, and food studies. Impact Wright's 2015 book ''The Vegan Studies Project: Food, Animals, and Gender in the Age of Terror'' which proposed the academic field "vegan studies," served as the found ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Wright (author)
Laura Wright (born March 12, 1970) is an American author of romance novels. Biography Wright was born in Minnesota. As an adult, she pursued a career as an actress, singer and competitive ballroom dancer, teaching ballroom dancing and Latin dancing for more than ten years. After many years of reading romance novels, Wright left dancing and attempted to write romantic fiction. After three years of writing, she sold a manuscript to Harlequin books for their Silhouette Desire line of category romances. Wright has been twice nominated for a ''Romantic Times'' Reviewer's Choice Award, for ''Baby and the Beast'' (2002) and for ''Redwolf's Woman'' (2004). She is married and lives in Los Angeles, California, with her husband and their two children. Works Mark of the Vampire *"Eternal Hunger" (Oct 2010) *"Eternal Kiss" (April 2011) *"Eternal Blood, E-reader" (Jan 2012) *"Eternal Captive" (Feb 2012) *"Eternal Beauty, E-reader" (May 2012) *"Eternal Beast" (Aug 2012) *"Eternal Dem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Wright (cricketer)
Laura Alice Wright (née Sisk; born September 11, 1970) is an American actress. She is best known for playing the roles of Allison "Ally" Rescott on '' Loving'' (1991 to 1995) and '' The City'' (1995 to 1997), Cassie Layne Winslow on ''Guiding Light'' (1997 to 2005) and Carly Corinthos (Spencer) on ''General Hospital'' (2005 to present). She won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her role on ''General Hospital'' in 2011. She has since received six more nominations in the same category. Early life Wright was born Laura Alice Sisk in Washington, D.C. and raised in Clinton, Maryland. She appeared in several high school plays such as ''Gypsy'', ''Our Town'', and '' You Can't Take It with You''. She also directed a school production of ''Father Says No''. She appeared in a few local commercials and numerous fashion shows. After high school, Wright attended one semester of college before leaving and taking a full time job at a gas station owned b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Wright (singer)
Laura Kathryn Wright (born 17 June 1990) is an English mezzo-soprano. She is a classical-popular crossover singer who performs classical and operatic music, popular songs, musical theatre, and folk songs. Early life Wright was born in Suffolk, and grew up in Framlingham. She won a scholarship to attend the fee-paying Framlingham College. Wright has three brothers. She trained to county level in hockey, netball, tennis and javelin. Singing career At the age of 14, Wright was BBC Radio 2 and Songs of Praise's Chorister of the Year. At the age of 16, Wright joined the group All Angels, before later gaining success as a solo singer. She was England Rugby's first official anthem singer, and has performed at men's and women's rugby matches at Twickenham. Wright has been a regular at the NFL matches and has performed at Rugby League, The Carnegie Challenge Cup Final, WSB Boxing, polo, the Carling Cup Final, The Championship Play-off Final and the FA Cup Final. In April 2016, she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Beltz Wright
Laura Beltz Wright (1909–1996), Inupiaq, was born in Candle, Alaska. From 1942 to 1947, she was one of 23 women members of the Alaska Territorial Guard (ATG) during World War II, which enlisted Alaska Natives as volunteers to patrol in case of a Japanese invasion. As a private in the ATG, she was best known as a sharp shooter, and also delivered mail. Later in life Beltz Wright became known for designing parkas. World War II Beltz Wright was part of the Alaska Territorial Guard (ATG) during World War II, which patrolled the coastline to provide intelligence on any enemy operations nearby and rescued any downed airmen. While most women were typically nurses, Beltz Wright stepped outside traditional norms and was a sharpshooter. In addition to her time with the ATG, Beltz Wright also delivered mail by dog team, skis and/or sled. Design Beltz Wright would be known for designing Alaska parkas later in life. In 1952, when she began designing parkas, she received a patent on a vel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Maria Sheldon Wright
Laura Maria Sheldon Wright (July 10, 1809January 21, 1886) was an American missionary. Laura Maria Sheldon was born on July 10, 1809, in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. She grew up in St. Johnsbury and in Barnet, Vermont, and was educated at the Young Ladies' School. She married Asher Wright on January 21, 1833, and the two moved to Buffalo Creek Reservation The Buffalo Creek Reservation was a tract of land surrounding Buffalo Creek in the central portion of Erie County, New York. It contained approximately of land and was set aside for the Seneca Nation following negotiations with the United State ... on February 5, 1833, to begin their mission. As a missionary, Laura wrote a school primer in Seneca and English and worked as a teacher. She also founded an organization called the Iroquois Temperance League. She died of pneumonia on January 21, 1886, in Iroquois, New York, at the home of Nicholson Henry Parker (1819–1892), a Seneca interpreter. References 1809 births ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southwest Airlines
Southwest Airlines Co., or simply Southwest, is a Major airlines of the United States, major airline in the United States that formerly operated on a low-cost carrier model. It is headquartered in the Love Field, Dallas, Love Field neighborhood of Dallas, Texas. It is the List of largest airlines in North America, fourth-largest airline in North America when measured by passengers carried, as of 2023. With its all-Boeing 737 fleet, Southwest serves over 100 destinations in 42 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, and ten other countries near the southern United States in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea regions: Aruba, the Bahamas, Belize, the Cayman Islands, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Jamaica, and Turks and Caicos Islands, Turks and Caicos. The airline was established on March 9, 1967, by Herb Kelleher and Rollin King as Air Southwest Co. and adopted its current name, Southwest Airlines Co., in 1971, when it began operating as an intrastate airline w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nightveil
Nightveil is a fictional character, a superheroine who appears in the '' Femforce'' comic book, published by AC Comics. An adaptation of the Golden Age superhero Phantom Lady, she has also been known as Blue Bulleteer and Nightfall. Her secret identity is Laura Wright, daughter of a member of the United States Senate. Publication history Nightveil (in her Blue Bulleteer identity) is an adaptation of the Golden Age superhero Phantom Lady. AC believed that the copyrights to the original character and stories had lapsed and were now in the public domain, but DC Comics asserted that it owned the rights to the character. AC declined to challenge the larger publisher. In her first appearance, ''Captain Paragon'' #1 (1972), she was named The Phantom Lady. In ''Bill Black's Fun Comics'' #4 (March 1983), she became Nightfall. She was renamed Nightveil in ''Nightveil'' #1 (1984). She first appeared as Blue Bulleteer in ''FemForce Special'' #1 (Fall 1984). Fictional character biography ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
