Emily McLaughlin (December 1, 1930 – April 26, 1991) was an American actress known for her long-standing role as Nurse Jessie Brewer on the ABC daytime soap opera General Hospital.

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McLaughlin was married to actor Robert Lansing from 1956 to 1968, with whom she had a son. After their divorce, she married actor Jeffrey Hunter in February 1969. Three months after they married, Hunter died of a brain haemorrhage on May 27 at the age of 42.

McLaughlin had an adopted daughter, Mary Ann Anderson, who wrote and published Portrait of A Soap Star: the Emily McLaughlin Story.