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Laura Connolly is a hair stylist who worked on several seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise, as well as on Star Trek Generations. She is the mother of background actress and stand-in Amy Kate Connolly and the mother in law of assistant director David G. Trotti.

During her time on Star Trek, Connolly was twice part of the team which earned an Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Hairstyling for a Series, the first for the Next Generation episode "Time's Arrow, Part II" in 1993 shared with Joy Zapata, Candace Neal, Patricia Miller, Richard Sabre, Julia L. Walker, and Josée Normand, and the second one for Outstanding Hairstyling for a Series for the ENT episode "Two Days and Two Nights" in 2002 which she shared with Michael Moore, Gloria Pasqua Casny, Roma Goddard, and Cheri Ruff.

In addition she was part of the hair department which received Emmy Award nominations for the following episodes 1994 for The Next Generation's "Firstborn" (along with Joy Zapata, Patricia Miller, Carolyn L. Elias, Don Sheldon, and Susan Zietlow-Maust), 1996 for the Voyager episode "Persistence of Vision" (shared with Barbara Minster, Karen Asano-Myers, and Suzan Bagdadi), 1998 for the Voyager episode "The Killing Game" (shared with Josée Normand, Charlotte Parker, Viviane Normand, Gloria Montemayor, Chris McBee, Mimi Jafari, Ruby Ford, Delree Todd, Hazel Catmull, Diane Pepper, Adele Taylor, Barbara Ronci, and Lola 'Skip' McNalley), 1999 for the Deep Space Nine episode "Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang" (along with Norma Lee, Brian A. Tunstall, Gloria Pasqua Casny, Rebecca De Morrio, Lauren Upshaw, Frank Fontaine, Tim Jones, Susan Zietlow-Maust, Angela Gurule, Gloria Ponce, Virginia Grobeson, and Linda Sharp), and 2005 for the Enterprise episode "In a Mirror, Darkly" (shared with Michael Moore and Roma Goddard).

In 1995, Connolly was in addition to her Star Trek related Emmy Awards part of the hair department which earned an Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Hairstyling for a Series for the Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman episode "A Washington Affair." Deborah Holmes Dobson, Virginia Grobeson, and Caryl Codon-Tharp were also part of the team.

Connolly, who is working as a hair stylist since the '80s, also did hair styles for Crash Course (1988), The Heist (1989), Eerie, Indiana (1991-1992, along Camille Calvet and Karen Iverson), Doorways (1993), The Roadflowers (1994), Larger than Life (1996), Volcano (1997), Air Force One (1997, along with Kevin Haney and Gerald Solomon), Supernova (2000, with Jake Garber, Mike Smithson, and Joy Zapata), Southland Tales (2006), and Blades of Glory (2007).

More recent projects in the hair department include the drama series In Treatment (2008) and Twilight (2008, with Rolf John Keppler).

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(This list is currently incomplete.)

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