Melissa Sue Anderson
Biography
Melissa Sue Anderson is an American actress born on September 26, 1962, in Berkeley, California. She is known for her television role as Mary Ingalls on the NBC series Little House on the Prairie, starring on the show from 1974 until 1981 and leaving after Season 7, before later appearing in two episodes of Season 8 in late 1981. She won an Emmy Award for her performance in Which Mother Is Mine?, which was released in 1979. One of her more recent performances was portraying First Lady Megan Hollister in the 2006 television mini-series 10.5: Apocalypse. Throughout her acting career, she has accumulated 45 known credits in television and film projects.
Career overview
Melissa Sue Anderson is an American actress born on September 26, 1962, in Berkeley, California. She is known for her acting career across television and film, holding forty-five known acting credits.
One of her most prominent television roles was playing Mary Ingalls on the NBC series Little House on the Prairie. She starred on the show from 1974 until 1981, leaving after Season 7, though she later returned to appear in two episodes of Season 8 in late 1981. In addition to her work on the series, she won an Emmy Award for her performance in Which Mother Is Mine?, which was released in 1979.
Her later television work includes a performance as First Lady Megan Hollister in the television mini-series 10.5: Apocalypse, which aired in 2006.
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- The Con Is On (2018) as Guest Two
- Little House on the Prairie: A Merry Ingalls Christmas (2014) as Mary Ingalls
- While She Was Out (2008) as Cassie (voice) (uncredited)
- Marco Polo (2007) as Mother (voice) (uncredited)
- 10.5: Apocalypse (2006) as Megan Hollister
- Crazy Eights (2006) as Hospital Patient (uncredited)
- NBC 75th Anniversary Special (2002) as Self
- Thin Ice (2000) as Tanya Ferguson
- Earthquake in New York (1998) as Dr. Marilyn Blake
- E! True Hollywood Story (1996)
- Burke's Law (1994) as Michelle Ryder
- Intimate Portrait (1993) as Self
- X-Men (1992)
- Dead Men Don't Die (1990) as Dulcie Niles
- Memories of Manon (1989) as Yvette Marcel
- The Return of Sam McCloud (1989) as Colleen McCloud
- Far North (1988) as Nurse
- The Suicide Club (1988) as Laura Donovan
- Dark Mansions (1986) as Noelle Drake
- The Equalizer (1985) as Yvette Marcel
- The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985) as Laura Donovan
- The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985) as Julie Fenton
- Murder, She Wrote (1984) as Eve Crystal
- Finder of Lost Loves (1984) as Nikki Gatos
- Glitter (1984)
- Chattanooga Choo Choo (1984) as Jennie
- Killing Machine (1984) as Kukki
- First Affair (1983) as Toby King
- Hotel (1982) as Cassie Ray
- An Innocent Love (1982) as Molly Rush
- Hollywood’s Children (1982) as Self (archive footage)
- Happy Birthday to Me (1981) as Virginia Wainwright
- Midnight Offerings (1981) as Vivian Sotherland
- Advice to the Lovelorn (1981) as Maureen Tyler
- The Survival of Dana (1979) as Dana Lee
- The Little House Years (1979) as Mary Ingalls
- A Different Approach (1978)
- The Love Boat (1977) as Jennifer "Chubs" Smith
- The Love Boat (1977) as Cindy Jerome
- The Love Boat (1977) as Cathy Cummings
- James at 15 (1977) as Lacey Stevens
- Battle of the Network Stars (1976)
- The Loneliest Runner (1976) as Nancy Rizzi
- Little House on the Prairie (1974) as Mary Ingalls
- Little House on the Prairie (1974) as Mary Ingalls Kendall
- Little House on the Prairie (1974) as Mary Ingalls
- The Brady Bunch (1969) as Millicent
- Bewitched (1964) as Girl (uncredited)
- The Mike Douglas Show (1961) as Self