Lara Lor-Van is a posthumous character in the television series Supergirl. She appears as a flashback character in season 1 and a posthumous character in Season 2, 4, 5 and 6. She was the biological mother of Clark Kent, the wife of Jor-El and the paternal aunt of Kara Danvers. She was a woman on Krypton who became a scientist. She married Jor-El and gave birth to a son, Kal-El in 1979.
During the destruction of Krypton, the woman was able to save her son by launching him towards Earth in a spaceship just moments before the planet explodes.
A sculpture of Clark's biolgocal mother was memorialized in his fortress of solitude in honor of the woman who loved him despite their short time toegether.