Karen Grassle

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Karen Grassle (born February 25, 1942 in Berkeley , California ) is an American actress . Your year of birth is incorrectly stated in various sources as 1944. She was best known as Caroline Ingalls in the television series Our Little Farm in the 1970s .

Career

After studying English and drama at the University of California at Berkeley , Grassle received a scholarship to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) at the age of 20 . After that she joined several theater companies. In addition, she took on roles in three soap operas .

Her best-known role was that of the mother character Caroline Ingalls in the series Our Little Farm . In this role, which she played from 1974 to 1982, she also became known in Germany. After the series ended, several smaller films followed with moderate success. Grassle also starred in several episodes of Cruising Fun and Arabesque . She can often be seen on American television as an advertisement for the videos of Our Little Farm .

Grassle is the initiator of one of the first women's shelters for abused women to be founded in the USA. In 1978 she took on one of the lead roles in the television film Battered , which she wrote and which deals with domestic violence. In 1989, the actress founded a theater company in Santa Fe, New Mexico .

In the biopic Wyatt Earp and Kevin Costner in the lead role, Grassle played the mother-in-law of the film hero. In 2000 she took on the lead role in the play Wit , which deals with the topic of cancer . In 2012 she appeared in the drama Tales of Everyday Magic . The main focus of her work today is on the theater.

Private life

Grassle's first marriage was the actor Leon Russom ; the marriage was divorced in 1969. She was married to her second husband, real estate agent J. Allen Radford, from 1982 to 1987; In 1985 she adopted a child. The marriage ended in divorce, as did her third marriage to the osteopath Scott T. Sutherland. Grassle lives with her adopted daughter in Pacific Palisades , California .

Filmography

  • 1974: Smoking Colts ( Gunsmoke , TV series, an episode)
  • 1974–1982: Our Little Farm ( Little House on the Prairie , TV series, 183 episodes)
  • 1977: Emily, Emily (TV movie)
  • 1978: The President's Mistress (Movie)
  • 1978: Battered (TV movie)
  • 1979: Danger Above the Clouds ( Crisis in Mid-air , TV movie)
  • 1979: Little House Years (TV movie)
  • 1981: Harry's Very Private War (Harry's War)
  • 1981: Love Boat ( The Love Boat , TV series, an episode)
  • 1983: Cocain (TV movie)
  • 1983: Hotel (TV series, an episode)
  • 1984: Our Little Farm - The End of Walnut Grove ( Little House: The Last Farewell , Movie made for TV)
  • 1985: Back to Life ( Between the Darkness and the Dawn , TV movie)
  • 1987–1988: Murder is her hobby ( Murder, She Wrote , TV series, two episodes)
  • 1994: Wyatt Earp - The Life of a Legend (Wyatt Earp)
  • 2012: Tales of Everyday Magic
  • 2012: My Greatest Teacher
  • 2017: Where's Roman? (Short film)
  • 2018: Lasso

Web links

Commons : Karen Grassle  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karen Grassle in: californiabirthindex.org
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Our little farm . The official DVD collection. Issue No. 2, p. 14, chapter: Main characters: "Karen Grassle on the fly". © by Universal Studios. Issued 2010 by GE Fabbri Limited, The Communications Building, London. Journal contributions by Patrick Loubatière.
  3. ↑ a b entry at filmreference.com
  4. ↑ Our little farm: Karen Grassle at ourkleinefarm.net (resource no longer available)
  5. ↑ Karen Grassle at kabeleins.de.
personal data
SURNAME Grassle, Karen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Berkeley , California , United States