Since the very first episode of Little House on the Prairie, which was broadcast in 1974 on American television, American actress Melissa Sue Anderson has been one of the main faces of the famous family show created by Michael Landon.
Playing Mary, Laura’s older sister and eldest daughter of the Ingall family, she graced the Simi Valley film franchise for 7 seasons (plus a few appearances in the penultimate season). During these 134 episodes, viewers of Little House on the Prairie were able to follow the special fate of this unique character, and especially the shocking episode during which he lost his sight.
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One of the most outstanding characters of the series
“It’s one of the best things I’ve done in my career.”Melissa Sue Anderson remembered In an interview for Le MatinAbout the famous episode in 2023.
“It was very difficult, but it allowed me to be nominated for an Emmy. I was up against all these great ladies competing for Best Actress. (…). I knew I wasn’t going to win, but it was very exciting.”
But 50 years after setting foot in Walnut Grove, what has become of the American actor?
After Little House on the Prairie…
After deciding to leave Little House on the Prairie two years before the series ended, citing her character’s too many tragedies and too few surroundings, Melissa Sue Anderson continued to appear on television. Other famous programs.
Even if she never found a role as important as Mary Ingalls, in the 80s we were able to see her briefly in a few episodes of Alfred Hitchcock’s Presentation or The Equalizer (whose creator Michael Sloan married).
Some movie roles
It is quite rare in cinema, except for a few roles in rather private projects (such as slasher happy birthday or the horror comedy Dead Men Don’t Die), he gradually stopped going to the movie set. More recently, she was seen again in the film Veronica Mars (2014), as well as in the disaster mini-series Earthquake in New York and Magnitude 10.5: Apocalypse.
In 2010, more than 30 years after leaving Little House on the Prairie, she published many of her memories of the series in a book titled Little House on the Prairie. The way I see it: I looked at my life in a small houseAnd regularly participates in events organized for fans, where he meets other actors of the show.
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