Appearances: S1: Pilot; S4: Scare; S5: Void
Family: ancestor, Countess Isobel Thoreaux; aunt, Louise McCallum; uncle, Dexter McCallum; sister, Nell Potter Winters; husband, Lewis Lang; daughter, Lana Lang; brother-in-law, Dean Winters
Bio: Laura Lang, né Potter, was born in 1959 in Smallville, Kansas. In high school, she'd been a cheerleader for the Smallville High Crows, but had hated it and had written in her diary of how she'd dreamed of leaving Smallville someday. In 1977, she'd delivered her class's graduation speech, but it had been deemed too controversial and the school paper had refused to print it. That same year, she'd met and fallen in love with Lewis Lang while he'd been working the concession stand at the Talon movie theater. They'd later married, but sometime in 1984, the two had separated and begun the process of divorce. In 1985, Laura had started dating Henry Small, a descendant of the town's founding family. However, she and Lewis had eventually reconciled, and shortly after, had learned she was pregnant. In 1986, she'd given birth to her and Henry's daughter Lana, though her husband Lewis had thought to be Lana's father. In 1989, she and Lewis had gone to the Smallville High homecoming game, leaving three-year-old Lana to be looked after by Laura's sister Nell. Afterwards, a meteor shower had struck the town, killing her and Lewis right in front of Lana. In 2005, thanks to a fear gas, Lana had hallucinated that everyone she'd ever loved was dead, including her parents, and that she was helpless to stop it. Then, in 2006, following a breakup with Clark Kent, Lana had gotten hooked on a flatlining drug that had allowed her to see her parents in the afterlife.
Portrayed By: Wendy Chmelauskas
