Melissa Sue Anderson Biography, Acting Career, Net worth and Personal Life

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Melissa Sue Anderson Biography

Melissa Sue Anderson was born on the 26th September 1962, at Berkeley, California USA. She is a popular actress and got famous in the movie “Little House on the Prairie” which she played Mary Ingalls through the late’70s and early’80s.

Melissa’s Personal Life

Anderson got married to a movie producer and writer Michael Sloan, who worked on shows like “The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries” and “The Equalizer” among many others. They got married in 1990 and had two kids.

According to reliable sources, she has foregone her acting career in favour of becoming a housewife and looking after her family. She made mention in a meeting that among her most challenging roles was when her character went unexpectedly blind during the fourth period of “Little House on the Prairie”.

Melissa Sue Anderson updated Net worth

How rich is Melissa Sue Anderson? Sources have it that she is worth up to $1.6 million which she earned via a successful acting career, additionally involving highly paid movie projects and other tv shows. Statistics show that if she had continued acting, by now, she should worth over $10million

The early life of Melissa Sue

Melissa Sue’s parent had two daughters which Melissa was the youngest. When she was still young, her family relocated to San Francisco Bay area to Los Angeles, from reliable sources, when she was 13, sadly her parents were divorced, and she was raised by her mother who was Roman Catholic.

While taking up dancing classes, her instructor encouraged her parents to try and find an agent for her, therefore leading her to appear in several commercials. This led to an advertisement she got featured in ”Mattel and Sears”.

As times goes on, she started getting jobs for television roles, including as a guest in an episode of “Bewitched”. She played the use of Millicent, a girl who kissed Bobby from the series “The Brady Bunch”, in precisely the same year, she appeared in an episode of “Shaft”.

Melissa’s Acting Career

In 1979, she featured in the “ABC Afterschool Special” entitled “Which Mother Is Mine?” The show regularly presented controversial situations of attention to children and teenagers, and also her performance led her to acquire an Emmy Award.

Later, she appeared at a television movie entitled “Survival of Dana”, playing a North Dakota transfer student called Dana Lee Gilbert.

Back in 1980, she acquired a TP de Oro award which is considered one of the very prestigious for television in Spain, as a result of her role in “Little House on the Prairie”, and which led her to look as a guest in the Spanish series “625 Lineas”.

The following year, Melissa Sue got a nomination for her role in the slasher movie entitled “Happy Birthday to Me”, with her leaving “Little House on the Prairie” following her seventh season. She moved on to look in other television series such as “The Equalizer”, “Murder, She Wrote”, also”CHiPs”.

In the latter part of her livelihood, her acting career became erratic. One of her acting jobs was in 2006 titled “10.5 Apocalypse”, playing First Lady Megan Hollister.

She also appeared in several independent productions, also had an uncredited role in the 2014 film “Veronica Mars” as Stosh’s mother. She published an autobiography entitled “The Way I See It: A Look back in my Life around Little House”, that is dependent on her years as a child star, additionally covering behind-the-scenes tales about stars, guest stars and crew members.