General Hospital's Laura Spencer


General Hospital's Laura Spencer was born to Professor Gordon Gray
and his former student, Dr. Lesley Williams, she was led to believe
that her baby had died at birth.


Laura was then raised by Jason and Barbara Vining
until she was 12 years old when Lesley discovered that she was
alive and living with the Vinings. Soon after Lesley found her
long lost daughter, she demanded that Laura move in and
live with her. As she lived with Lesley, Laura was torn
between her two mothers.


Lesley then returned Laura to the Vinings.
Lesley still gave Laura large amounts of attention which
make Lesley's husband Cameron quite jealous. He even
paid the Vinings a large sum of money to take Laura far
away from where Lesley could ever see her.

Lesley and Rick Webber searched for Laura and when
they found Laura, she was being dragged from
a commune by her adoptive mother Barbara. Laura was
not ready to go home, and was definitely not the Laura
that Lesley remembered. But Lesley and Rick dragged Laura
home to Port Charles where she moved in with them.

Laura then married Scotty Baldwin. Laura's spent a large
amount of money on law books for Scotty. To repay this debt,
Laura asked Luke Spencer for a job at the Campus Disco.


Scotty Baldwin, Laura Webber, Lesley & Rick Webber




Luke quickly fell in love with Laura. One night, he asked
Laura to dance in the empty disco. Luke told Laura he
loved her but ended up raping Laura on the floor.

Laura refused to identify her rapist. Laura forgave him
in a letter she wrote to him, which Scotty found.


Laura's first night at the disco with her boss, Luke Spencer




In love with Laura, Luke was to marry mob boss, Frank Smith's
daughter Jennifer, but instead ran off with Laura.

When they returned Laura broke Luke's heart by confessing
to reporters that she still was Scotty's wife.

They both went to work for ELQ. Laura searched for Scotty,
who'd run off, but she continually ran into Luke. They
finally realized that they couldn't live without each other.

In the meantime Nikkos Cassadine was plotting to
freeze the world starting with Port Charles.
Laura and Luke set out to stop him. Luke
broke the computer code at the last second saving
Port Charles from being deep frozen. When Luke
and Laura returned she filed for divorce from Scotty.

See: Luke, Laura & Robert in the Ice Princess Caper


Luke and Laura's Wedding




Soon after Luke and Laura's wedding, Tiffany Hill encouraged
Laura to take on the modeling job of Ms. Star Eyes, a job
that took her away from Port Charles to New York City
quite often. While on one of her trips home, Laura was
kidnapped by David Grey and presumed dead. But, she was
really being held captive by the Cassadines. Laura was told
Luke was dead and was forced to marry Mikkos' son Stavros.

She also had an affair with Stavros' brother Stefan and
conceived a child, Nikolas. Stavros' mother Helena hated
Laura, plotting to get her away from her relatives, she
succeeded and Laura left Nikolas to be raised by
Stefan.

Luke and Laura then left Port Charles for Texas,
where they had a son Lucas Lorenzo Spencer, Junior.
They continued on the run for 9 years from Frank Smith
after he tried to blow up their truck.

When they finally returned back to Port Charles, Laura was
arrested for murdering Frank's son Damian, a crime she
was innocent of. She was acquitted and the real killer
turned out to be her lawyer Justus Ward.

In 1994 Laura gave birth to daughter Lesley Lu. In 1996,
LuLu grew sick with a strange bone marrow disease.
After Lucky, Luke and Laura were proven incompatible for
a bone marrow transplant, Laura was forced to seek out
her long lost son Nikolas. Stefan and Nikolas came to
Port Charles where Nikolas was proven a match for LuLu.
With Nikolas' bone marrow transplant a success and
LuLu's health returning to normal, Laura tried to have a
relationship with her long lost son and even Stefan.

Laura discovered that he had been keeping her mother
in a catatonic state ever since her supposed death in
a car accident in 1984. Laura fled to her mother's side
and brought her home to Port Charles. In 1997, Stefan
threatened to reveal Nikolas' paternity to Luke, so
Laura fled to Switzerland with Lesley and LuLu.

When Laura returned, she had to testify at Stefan's
murder trial where Luke learned of Nikolas's
paternity and that Laura and Stefan had been lovers
for years when she was missing. Luke then did what
he does best, leave town.


Laura bought Deception Cosmetics from Scotty with
the financial backing of Sonny Corinthos, but only if
Carly Corinthos could be co-partner. Laura agreed to
the partnership. Carly was a total pain for Laura.

Her first choice for the company's signature model was
Elizabeth Webber. But Carly wanted Gia Campbell. Determined
to get her way, Carly had Gia lock Laura on the roof
the night Laura was going to announce the new model.

In June 2001, Luke and Laura divorced. Stavros Cassadine
came back from the dead that summer after being frozen for
several years. He awoke determined to regain his family,
including Laura. He constantly stalked Laura throughout the
summer.

Laura then left Port Charles for North Carolina
with Lesley and Lulu for the summer. When she returned, she
learned that Luke had mysteriously disappeared. He eventually
turned up suffering from an illness that caused him to cycle
through time, between the year 1979 one minute and 2001 the next.
Laura helped him remember the memories that they shared.


Just as Luke was starting to recover, Laura and Nikolas went to
confront Helena in her underground lab. They ran into Stavros
instead. He took Laura to a secret bedroom to reclaim her as his
wife. While Stavros was explaining his good intentions to Laura,
Luke appeared and declared that Stavros would never have Laura.
The two fought, and Stavros knocked Luke to the ground. He grew
angry at Laura's pleas to leave Luke alone. When he left Luke and
Laura alone in the room, they declared their love for one
another.

Scotty then asked Laura to marry him all over again,
fearing that she would leave him for Luke. She pondered the
question for awhile and was unhappy that Luke found out
about it when LuLu blurted it out at Thanksgiving dinner.
Luke told Laura to marry Scotty. But Laura ended up
turning Scotty down.

Trying once again, Luke asked Laura to marry him again.
But before she could agree, Luke was taken by Jennifer Smith
who wanted to marry him.

Laura flew to Texas to rescue Luke from the wedding.
In a cave Laura this time told Luke she would marry him
again.

Laura began having dreams which were really her
past surfacing. Luke offered to help recover some
of her missing past.

More flashbacks began occurring and Laura's grasp on reality
began slipping. Things reached a climax when Laura returned
to the attic on the eve of her wedding. Rick soon joined
her there. As they talked Laura became more and more
convinced that Rick had killed his lover in the attic.
Rick denied it but he refused to tell her what happened
and instead slowly approached her with a syringe.

Believing Rick murdered Theresa, Laura became frantic when he
tried to inject her with an unknown substance. Fearing for her
life, she grabbed the first object she could find, a heavy
candlestick, and hit him over the head, killing Rick. Luke
arrived but it was too late to save Rick. Realizing that Laura
was in deep trouble, Luke tried to get her out of the attic but
Laura was not cooperative. She was covered in blood and suffering
a complete psychotic breakdown. Scotty soon joined them and
realizing he had no choice, he told Luke what had happened all
those years ago. A teenaged Laura had surprised Rick and his
lover, Theresa who were in the attic. Theresa, who was obsessed
with Rick, wanted Rick to leave Lesley but he refused. Laura
walked in on the heated moment and the shock of seeing her
beloved step-father in a compromising position with a volatile
woman made Laura act on instinct. She grabbed a camera and hit
Theresa over the head, killing her. Rick, fearing what would
happen to Laura and seeing how traumatized she was by what she
had done, quickly sedated her with a drug that also helped cloud
recent memories. He then called Scotty to help him with the body.
Rick and Scotty buried Theresa in the backyard to protect Laura
from being charged and convicted of murder.


Lucky and Nikolas found Rick dead in the attic, they feared
that Luke had killed him for some unknown reason. Even though
Nikolas and Lucky tried to make it look like Rick had
died in a drunk-driving accident, Scott didn't buy it
and believed Luke was responsible.

Luke took Laura to a remote barn where he had bound and gagged
her. He explained to her that she was tied up because she kept
trying to run from him even though he was protecting her. Laura
had flashbacks of Rick's death and believed Luke was actually
going to hurt her. She got away and managed to call Nikolas to
rescue her from Luke before Luke got her back again. He had to
repeatedly remind her that Rick was dead. Finally, Laura
remembered killing Theresa and that she had killed Rick
because she thought he was going to hurt her.

Laura grew worse and confessed to killing Rick. Luke
then said he did it to protect Laura.


After being treated in London Laura returned in a catatonic
state to Shadybrook Sanitarium, where she stayed for
4 years not being able to speak or remember.

In November 2006, Robin Scorpio told Luke of a
new drug that could return Laura to her normal state.
He agreed to give it a shot and using experimental
LS 49, Robin returns Laura to existence.

Laura reunites with her family, then asks Luke to
marry her again. Luke is scared that finding out about
her past will return Laura to her catatonic state, so
agrees to marry her. Laura starts to have flashbacks
and remembers killing Rick. Luke then helps her to
remember the past, but what Luke doesn't tell her is
that the experimental drug is only temporary and that
soon Laura will return to her chair at Shadybrook.

Luke and Laura re-marry on November 16, 2006, the
25th anniversary of their original wedding. However
their bliss is short lived as Laura starts to forget
things and quickly loses all memory returning to the
catatonic state she was in.

Laura is put back in Shadybrook under her own
desires and names Nikolas as her legal guardian.
When Scott comes back to town, his agenda is to
get Luke away from Laura and obtain legal guardianship.

Scott convinces a judge that he is right who gives
guardianship of Laura to him. But before Scott can
move Laura away, Luke and Tracy abduct Laura with
Luke taking her to parts unknown.

Laura has been played by:
Stacey Baldwin (1974 to 1976)
Genie Francis (1976-1981; 1983-1984; 29 October 1993 to 6
September 2002; October to November 2006)


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