Melissa GilbertMelissa Ellen Gilbert (born May 8, 1964) is an American actress. As a former child actor, she is best known for her role of Laura Ingalls on the television series Little House on the Prairie and for her term as president of the Screen Actors Guild which she won after a bitter election with Valerie Harper. Gilbert is married to Bruce Boxleitner. She is the older half-sister of Roseanne star Sara Gilbert. She named her son after Michael Landon, her mentor on Little House. This page about Melissa Gilbert includes information from a Wikipedia article. Additional articles about Melissa Gilbert News stories about Melissa Gilbert External links for Melissa Gilbert Videos for Melissa Gilbert Wikis about Melissa Gilbert Discussion Groups about Melissa Gilbert Blogs about Melissa Gilbert Images of Melissa Gilbert |
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She named her son after Michael
Landon, her mentor on Little House. Hawn has proved her singing talent with a cover version of the
Beatles' song "A Hard Day's Night" on George Martin's CD In
My Life (1998). She is the older
half-sister of Roseanne star Sara Gilbert. Melissa Ellen Gilbert (born May 8, 1964) is an American actress. She appeared in The Banger Sisters opposite Susan Sarandon in 2002. Through the late '90s into the year 2002 she has remained popular (in partial thanks to the success of her now adult daughter, actress Kate Hudson). She eventually came full circle playing an aging actress in the late 90s film The First Wives Club opposite Bette Midler and Diane Keaton. Her career died down a bit until 1992 when she revitalized it opposite Bruce Willis and Meryl Streep in the film Death Becomes Her. Into the 1970s and 1980s Hawn remained a popular figure in entertainment, appearing in various films (generally comedies.) She gathered great respect as a comedic actress, outspoken on her liberal political views. Hawn won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her work in the 1969 film Cactus Flower. She embodied both the concept of the free-loving hippie girl and the determined feminist. Noted equally for her chipper attitude and her bikini and painted body, she personified a 60s "it-girl." On the show she would often break out into high-pitched giggles in the middle of a joke, yet in the next moment deliver a very polished performance. born actress who began her career as one of the regular cast members on the 1960s sketch comedy show Laugh-In. Goldie Hawn (born November 21, 1945) is a Washington, D.C. The Banger Sisters (2002). The First Wives Club (1996). Everyone Says I Love You (1996). Death Becomes Her (1992). Housesitter (1992). Overboard (1987). Private Benjamin (1980). Shampoo (1975). Butterflies Are Free (1972). There's a Girl in My Soup (1970). Cactus Flower (1969). |