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Lara Gilchrist

Canadian actress

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ6488543
Source-derived summary

Lara Gilchrist (born October 20, 1981) is a Canadian actress.

She voiced the role of Susan Storm (Invisible Woman) in the Cartoon Network and NickToons animated TV show Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes. She also provided the voice for the character Angela in the film Braver, and has appeared in TV shows such as Smallville and Battlestar Galactica.

In 2011 she appeared in the Hallmark Movie Channel movie Goodnight for Justice.

She has done TV commercial voice work for the Edmonton Eskimos, Future Shop, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Subway, and Super Seven lotteries. On stage, she has appeared in Victoria Maxwell's Life Line put on by Solo Collective, Hippies and Bolsheviks, Ramifications of a Particular Crash, True Love Lies, and Enchanted April (based on a 1992 film).

Early life

Gilchrist is an alumna of Studio 58.

Editorial summary

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

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1981, 2011, 1992—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1982. The account is most persuasive where Lara, Gilchrist and Canadian can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

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

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6488543. VIAF identifies the subject as 170431964. The Library of Congress control number is no2011060904. 4 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1981, 2011 and 1992.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. 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.

Best used for
  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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Personal papers, civil or court records, institutional files and the scholarship cited by the source.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Lara Gilchrist”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Lara Gilchrist primary sources, Lara Gilchrist archive and Lara 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 “Lara Gilchrist”?
  2. Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
  3. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from Lara Gilchrist” 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.