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Laila Lockhart Kraner

American actress

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ120490100 ↗
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Laila Lockhart Kraner (born May 29, 2008) is an American actress. She is known for starring as Gabby in the Netflix interactive television series Gabby's Dollhouse. She reprised the role in Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie (2025), a live-action animated musical fantasy comedy film.

Early life

Kraner was born on May 29, 2008 in Boca Raton, Florida.

Career

Kraner began acting at the age of 5, and was cast in Gabby's Dollhouse at age 11. She brought her pet cat and a puppet made from a modified stuffed animal to her audition for the show.

Personal life

Kraner was born in Boca Raton, Florida. Her father is of Dominican ancestry, while her mother is of Russian-Jewish ancestry. In a 2025 interview with USA Today, Kraner described herself as having "a pretty normal life", and said that she enjoys shopping, playing guitar, drawing, and going to the movies with friends.

Filmography

Television

Film

Short films

References

External links

Laila Lockhart Kraner at IMDb

"Laila Lockhart Kraner".

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

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008, 2025—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2008-05-29. The account is most persuasive where Laila, Lockhart and Kraner can be independently traced.
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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 Sep 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q120490100. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2008 and 2025.

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This entry incorporates text from “Laila Lockhart Kraner” 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.