Karen Grassle

Karen Grassle

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 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.

  • ماۋزۇ: Karen Grassle
  • ئاممىباب: 7.147
  • For For For: Acting
  • تۇغۇلغان كۈنى: 1942-02-25
  • تۇغۇلغان جاي: Berkeley, California, USA
  • باش بەت: https://karengrassle.net
  • As As known As:
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Karen Grassle كىنولار

  • 1983
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    Cocaine: One Man's Seduction

    Cocaine: One Man's Seduction

    7 1983 HD

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  • 1981
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    Harry's War

    Harry's War

    5.2 1981 HD

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  • 1985
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    Between the Darkness and the Dawn

    Between the Darkness and the Dawn

    6.2 1985 HD

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  • 1974
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    Little House on the Prairie

    Little House on the Prairie

    8.2 1974 HD

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  • 2012
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    Tales of Everyday Magic

    Tales of Everyday Magic

    1 2012 HD

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  • 1979
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    Crisis in Mid-Air

    Crisis in Mid-Air

    6 1979 HD

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  • 1978
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    The President's Mistress

    The President's Mistress

    6.7 1978 HD

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  • 2014
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    Little House on the Prairie: A Merry Ingalls Christmas

    Little House on the Prairie: A Merry Ingalls Christmas

    8.4 2014 HD

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  • 1978
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    Battered

    Battered

    1 1978 HD

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  • 2017
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    Lasso

    Lasso

    6.5 2017 HD

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  • 1984
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    Little House: The Last Farewell

    Little House: The Last Farewell

    7.1 1984 HD

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  • 1994
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    Wyatt Earp

    Wyatt Earp

    6.76 1994 HD

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  • 1979
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    The Little House Years

    The Little House Years

    7 1979 HD

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  • 2017
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    Where's Roman?

    Where's Roman?

    1 2017 HD

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  • 2021
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    Not to Forget

    Not to Forget

    6.7 2021 HD

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  • 1978
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    Battered

    Battered

    1 1978 HD

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  • 1984
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    Murder, She Wrote

    Murder, She Wrote

    7.6 1984 HD

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  • 1974
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    Little House on the Prairie

    Little House on the Prairie

    8 1974 HD

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  • 1982
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    Hotel

    Hotel

    6.7 1982 HD

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  • 1955
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    Gunsmoke

    Gunsmoke

    6.5 1955 HD

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  • 1951
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    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    8.667 1951 HD

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  • 1977
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    The Love Boat

    The Love Boat

    6.295 1977 HD

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  • 1984
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    Murder, She Wrote

    Murder, She Wrote

    7.6 1984 HD

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  • 1961
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    The Mike Douglas Show

    The Mike Douglas Show

    5.143 1961 HD

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  • 1970
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    The Mike Douglas Show

    The Mike Douglas Show

    8 1970 HD

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