| Carla Summerfield | |||||||||||||
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| Shortland Street character | |||||||||||||
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| Portrayed by | Elisabeth Easther | ||||||||||||
| Duration | 1995–1996, 2021–2022 | ||||||||||||
| First appearance | May 1995 | ||||||||||||
| Last appearance | 17 January 2022 | ||||||||||||
| Classification | Former; regular | ||||||||||||
| Introduced by | Gavin Strawhan (1995) Oliver Driver (2021) | ||||||||||||
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Carla Summerfield (née Crozier, also known as Leach) is a fictional character on the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street, who was portrayed by Elisabeth Easther from early 1995 to mid 1996. The character debuted as the sister of established character Ellen Crozier (Robyn Malcolm) and gained notoriety as the show's first ever on screen murderer.