Melissa gilbert net worth
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Melissa Gilbert
American actress (born 1964)
Melissa Ellen Gilbert (born May 8, 1964)[1][2] is an American actress. Gilbert began her career as a child actress in the late 1960s, appearing in numerous commercials and guest-starring roles on television. From 1974 to 1983, she starred as Laura Ingalls Wilder, the second-oldest daughter of Charles Ingalls (played by Michael Landon) on the NBC series Little House on the Prairie. During the run of Little House, Gilbert appeared in several television films, including The Diary of Anne Frank (1980), and The Miracle Worker (1979). As an adult, she continued her career mainly in television films. From 2009 to 2010, Gilbert appeared as Caroline "Ma" Ingalls in the touring production of Little House on the Prairie, the Musical. In 2012, she was a contestant on season fourteen of the reality dance competition show Dancing with the Stars on ABC.
Gilbert served as president of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) from 2001 to 2005. She briefly ran for the U.S. Congress in 2016, but withdrew her candidacy before
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Melissa Gilbert
(1964-)
Synopsis
Born on May 8, 1964, in Los Angeles, California, Melissa Gilbert first found acting success playing Laura Ingalls on the dramatic series Little House on the Prairie from 1974 to 1982. She went on to act in several more TV roles as a child and teen and has continued to act into adulthood. In 2001, Gilbert was voted in as president of the Screen Actors Guild and won a second two-year term in 2003.
Early Life
Born in Los Angeles, California, on May 8, 1964, Melissa Gilbert grew up in the entertainment business. She is the adopted daughter of actor Paul Gilbert and actress/dancer Barbara Crane (now Barbara Gilbert Cowan); her biological parents each had three children from previous marriages and, fearing they wouldn't be able to provide for Gilbert financially, put her up for adoption the day she was born. Gilbert's two siblings are also actors; Sara played Darlene in the series Roseanne and Jonathan played Willie Olson on Little House on the Prairie.
'Little House on the Prairie'
The sensitive, delicately pretty actor came to fame as
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Melissa Gilbert
After a highly successful decade as the lead on Little House on the Prairie, Melissa Gilbert defied the odds for child actors by becoming a Hollywood power-broker as president of the Screen Actors Guild from 2001 to 2005. Adopted at birth by comedian Paul Gilbert, Melissa Gilbert got her start in TV commercials at age two. She played Laura Ingalls Wilder on Little House on the Prairie from 1974 to 1984 while starring in dozens of film roles, including 1979’s The Miracle Worker, 1980’s Diary of Anne Frank, and 1983’s Choices of the Heart. In 1985 she became the youngest actress with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. After the Little House series ended, she continued to work in both films and television, with guest appearances on Babylon 5, 7th Heaven, and Nip/Tuck, as well as a stint on Dancing with the Stars in 2012. As president of SAG, she fought for reforms, including new contracts for actors working in commercials and those working in television and films, and chair SAG’s Task Force on Affirmative Action and the AFSTRA/SAG Young Perfo
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