Career
Born Adelaide Minola Pratt in Hunterville, New Zealand, Luxford relocated to Hollywood to pursue a career in film acting. Her first film appearance was in the 1920 film The Tiger"s Coat. From 1920 through 1927 she would appear in thirteen films, starring opposite and alongside such actors as Bill Cody, Jack Holt, and Carmel Myers.
In 1932 she gave a daily one-hour radio report on the Olympics at Los Angeles for New Zealand and Australia, relayed "down under" by short-wave radio.
After 1927 it wasn"t until 1932 that she had her next film role. She would have six film appearances from 1932 to 1935, with the only credited ones of any notoriety being The Iron Master starring Reginald Denny, and Lost in Limehouse, starring Laura Louisiana Plante, and both being in 1933.
She retired after 1935, and settled in Pasadena, California. She continued to live in Pasadena, where she was residing at the time of her death on 10 October 1994.