On November 4, 2005, Laura Wright joined General Hospital as the fourth actress to play Carly Spencer and quickly made the role her own.

Twenty years later, Wright still marvels at her good fortune. “I feel like the luckiest person in the world,” reflects the actress, who began her soap career on Loving , crossed over to The City , then joined Guiding Light before making the move to Port Charles . “I wasn’t looking for this as a career. It was always my dream — I grew up watching soap operas, and I loved acting and being in theater — so it makes sense, but it still blows my mind.”

As it turns out, Wright’s GH destiny was written years before her first day on set, thanks to a fateful encounter at the 1997 Daytime Emmy Awards with the first actress who was hired for the role. ‘

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