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Karen Grassle
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Karen Grassle
Homepage
https://karengrassle.net
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1942-02-25,Berkeley, California, USA
Gender
Female
Biography
Karen Trust Grassle (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 debut in the short-lived 1968 play The Gingham Dog. Grassle played in Butterflies Are Free on Broadway (as stand-by with Gloria Swanson, Rosemary Murphy, etc.) as well as at the Elitch Theatre in Denver, Colorado, in June 1972, along with Maureen O'Sullivan and Brandon deWilde, who was killed before leaving town after the performances ended. Grassle starred in the Shakespeare in the Park "Cymbeline." with Christopher Walken, Sam Waterston, and Bill Devane. Grassle auditioned for the role of the mother, Caroline Ingalls, in the Little House on the Prairie TV series and won the part. The series ran for nine seasons, from 1974 to 1983. After making the pilot for Little House on the Prairie, Grassle appeared in one episode of Gunsmoke titled "The Wiving" as Fran, one of several saloon girls kidnapped. Subsequently, she acted in the features Harry's War, a 1981 American film where she played Kathy, the wife of Edward Herrmann's title character, and Wyatt Earp, a 1994 film starring Kevin Costner. On television, she starred in and co-wrote the NBC-TV film Battered. Other TV movies include Cocaine: One Man's Seduction, Crisis in MidAir, and Between the Darkness and the Dawn. In episodic TV, she starred in Hotel, Love Boat, and Murder She Wrote (twice.) She also appeared on Hollywood Squares and numerous talk shows such as Dinah, Merv Griffin, Mike Douglas, and John Davidson. During this period, she lobbied for federal funding for shelters for battered women and appeared in many events to support the Equal Rights Amendment. After the series ended, she moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico and became co-founder and artistic director of Santa Fe’s Resource Theater Company. Later she moved to Louisville, Kentucky, where she performed with the company of actors at Actors Theatre of Louisville. Grassle continues to perform in productions in San Francisco, Berkeley, and Palo Alto as well as tours and productions such as Driving Miss Daisy in the starring role of Miss Daisy at the Manitoba Theatre Centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in a co-production with Rubicon Theatre and at the Riverside Center for the Performing Arts in Fredericksburg, Virginia. In 2008, she was awarded a prize for her performance in Cabaret at the San Francisco Playhouse. Over the years, she has appeared in commercials such as the promotional face for Premier Bathrooms, a supplier of bathing products for the elderly and infirm.

Filmography

Cocaine: One Man's Seduction

7

Cocaine: One Man's Seduction
1983-02-27

6.2

Harry's War
1981-03-06

Between the Darkness and the Dawn

6.6

Between the Darkness and the Dawn
1985-12-23

Little House on the Prairie

7.9

Little House on the Prairie
1974-03-30

Tales of Everyday Magic

0

Tales of Everyday Magic
2012-01-01

Crisis in Mid-Air

8

Crisis in Mid-Air
1979-02-13

The President's Mistress

6.8

The President's Mistress
1978-02-10

Little House on the Prairie: A Merry Ingalls Christmas

8.4

Little House on the Prairie: A Merry Ingalls Christmas
2014-11-04

9

Battered
1978-09-26

6.2

Lasso
2017-10-22

Little House: The Last Farewell

7.2

Little House: The Last Farewell
1984-02-06

6.79

Wyatt Earp
1994-06-24

The Little House Years

8.5

The Little House Years
1979-11-15

0

Where's Roman?
2017-03-15

6.8

Not to Forget
2021-11-26

Little House Homecoming

0

Little House Homecoming
2025-11-13

Murder, She Wrote

7.534

Murder, She Wrote
1984-09-30

Little House on the Prairie

7.937

Little House on the Prairie
1974-09-11

6.8

Hotel
1982-08-21

6.679

Gunsmoke
1955-09-10

Hallmark Hall of Fame

8.75

Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951-12-24

6.3

The Love Boat
1977-09-24

Murder, She Wrote

7.534

Murder, She Wrote
1984-09-30

The Mike Douglas Show

5.8

The Mike Douglas Show
1961-12-11