Who exactly is Melissa Sue Anderson?
Melissa Sue Anderson was born on September 26, 1962, in Berkeley, California, USA. She is most known for her role as Mary Ingalls in the television series “Little House on the Prairie” in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Melissa Sue Anderson’s net worth remains unknown. According to sources, she had a net worth of $1.5 million as of late 2018, which she earned from a successful performance career that encompassed film and television ventures. It is projected that she will continue to pursue her goals, resulting in an increase in her income.
Beginnings in Entertainment and Early Life
Melissa Sue was born the younger of two daughters; her family moved from the San Francisco Bay area to Los Angeles when she was young, but when she was 13, her parents separated, and she was raised mostly by her Roman Catholic mother.
Her teacher suggested her parents to look for an agency for her while she was taking dancing classes, and she ended up starring in a variety of advertisements, including Mattel and Sears commercials. Soon after, she began receiving offers for television roles, including a guest appearance on an episode of “Bewitched.”
She also portrayed Millicent, a girl who kissed Bobby in “The Brady Bunch,” and appeared in an episode of “Shaft” that same year. These finally led to her earning a role in “Little House on the Prairie,” which she would work on for the next eight years. The plot revolves around a farm family in the 1870s and 1880s.
Little House on the Prairie has come to an end.
Melissa Sue received a nomination the following year for her performance in the horror film “Happy Birthday to Me” after departing “Little House on the Prairie” after the seventh season. She later acted in movies like “The Equalizer,” “Murder, She Wrote,” and “CHiPs.”
She also dabbled in production, serving as an associate producer on Michael Landon’s final picture, “Where Pigeons Go to Die,” in 1990. She was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame in 1998 and starred in the ill-fated television sitcom “Partners” the next year.
In the final stages of her career, she did little acting. She played First Lady Megan Hollister in the 2006 miniseries “10.5 Apocalypse,” which was one of her final television roles.
She has starred in a variety of short films, including an uncredited part as Stosh’s mother in “Veronica Mars” in 2014. “The Way I See It: A Look Back at My Life on Little House” is her autobiography about her time as a child star, with behind-the-scenes details about cast members, guests, and crew.
The family relocated to Montreal in 2002 and became naturalized Canadians five years later, on Canada Day. According to insiders, she has mostly abandoned her acting career in order to be a stay-at-home mother and provide for her family.
In an interview, she noted that one of her most difficult roles was when her character became blind during the fourth season of “Little House on the Prairie.”