Karen Grassle

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1942-02-25 (83 years old)

Place of Birth

Berkeley, California, USA

Karen Grassle

Biography

Karen Trust Grassle (/ɡræsliː/ GRASS-LEE; born February 25, 1942) is an American actress, known for her role as Caroline Ingalls in the NBC television drama series Little House on the Prairie. After summers at the Stanford Contemporary Workshop playing leads and two summers at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival playing classical roles, her first professional engagement was a season at the Front Street Theatre, Memphis, TN. upon return from London. While living in New York City, she worked at resident and stock theatres throughout the country, also appearing on PBS in original works and on networks in three soap operas. She made her Broadway d...

Acting

1983

1981

Harry's War

as Kathy

1985

Between the Darkness and the Dawn

as Ellen Foster Holland

1974

Little House on the Prairie

as Caroline Ingalls

1979

Crisis in Mid-Air

as Betsy Culver

1978

1978

Battered

as Susannah Hawks

2017

Lasso

as Lillian

1984

1994

Wyatt Earp

as Mrs. Sutherland

1979

The Little House Years

as Caroline Ingalls

2017

Where's Roman?

as Mysterious Woman

2021

Not to Forget

as Melody

Production

1978

Battered

as Writer

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