Nola Luxford OBE QSM (born Adelaide Minola Pratt; 23 December 1895 – 10 October 1994) was a New Zealand-born American film actress, spanning from the silent film era to the 1930s.

During the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, she was also a writer and pioneer broadcaster, providing a daily radio programme for audiences in Australia and New Zealand.

Born Adelaide Minola Pratt in Hunterville, New Zealand, on 23 December 1895,[1] and raised in Hastings, Luxford was the eldest of three children of Adelaide Agnes McGonagle, a schoolteacher, and Ernest Augustus Pratt, a draper.

From 1920 through 1927 she would appear in thirteen films, starring opposite and alongside such actors as Bill Cody, Jack Holt, and Carmel Myers.

[3] Her first husband, Maurice George "Maurie" Luxford, whom she wed in 1919, died.