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Aubrey Dollar

American actress

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ454272 ↗
Source-derived summary

Aubrey Dollar is an American actress. She is known for playing Marina Cooper on the CBS daytime soap opera Guiding Light from 2001 to 2004. Dollar has also starred in the television series Point Pleasant (2005–2006), Women's Murder Club (2007–2008), Battle Creek (2015), and Filthy Rich (2020).

Life and career

Aubrey Dollar was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, and studied at Needham B. Broughton High School, where she was a classmate of fellow actor Colin Fickes. She attended Boston University and Amherst College. Her younger sister, Caroline, is also an actress.

From 2001 to 2004, Dollar played Marina Cooper in the soap opera, Guiding Light. She is known for her roles as Judy Kramer in Point Pleasant, a 2005 series on Fox, and as Marcy Bender in Dawson's Creek. From 2007 to 2008, Dollar starred as Cindy Thomas on the ABC television series Women's Murder Club. She starred in the 2012 NBC pilot Happy Valley which was not picked up.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Aubrey Dollar” as american actress. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2001, 2004, 2005, 2006—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1980-09-23. The account is most persuasive where Aubrey, Dollar and American can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as american actress. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q454272. VIAF identifies the subject as 56568419. The Library of Congress control number is nr2005024179. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2001, 2004, 2005 and 2006.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Aubrey Dollar”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Aubrey Dollar primary sources, Aubrey Dollar archive and Aubrey research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Aubrey Dollar”?
  2. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
  3. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
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This entry incorporates text from “Aubrey Dollar” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.