| Laura Avery Sumner | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Knots Landing character | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Portrayed by | Constance McCashin | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Duration | 1979–87 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| First appearance | December 27, 1979 (Episode: "Pilot") | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Last appearance | October 29, 1987 (Episode: "The Gift of Life") | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Created by | David Jacobs | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Laura Avery Sumner (maiden name Murphy)[1] is a fictional character from the CBS soap opera Knots Landing, a long-running serial about middle class life on the fictional cul-de-sac known as Seaview Circle in Los Angeles, California. She was played by actress Constance McCashin between 1979 and 1987. She debuted in the pilot episode and remained a principal actor in the series until the ninth-season episode "The Gift of Life".