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Karen Grassle

Karen Grassle

Actor · Born 1942-02-25 · Berkeley, California, USA

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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 …

Movies & TV Shows

  1. Little House on the Prairie (1974) — Caroline Ingalls
  2. Wyatt Earp (1994) — Mrs. Sutherland
  3. Murder, She Wrote (1984) — Christine Stoneham
  4. The Love Boat (1977) — Paula
  5. Gunsmoke (1955) — Fran
  6. Lasso (2017) — Lillian
  7. Hotel (1982) — Susan Walker
  8. Little House on the Prairie (1974) — Caroline Ingalls
  9. Little House: The Last Farewell (1984) — Caroline Ingalls
  10. Not to Forget (2021) — Melody
  11. The Mike Douglas Show (1961) — Self
  12. Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951)
  13. Cocaine: One Man's Seduction (1983) — Barbara Gant
  14. The President's Mistress (1978) — Donna Morton
  15. Harry's War (1981) — Kathy
  16. Between the Darkness and the Dawn (1985) — Ellen Foster Holland
  17. Little House on the Prairie: A Merry Ingalls Christmas (2014) — Caroline Ingalls
  18. Crisis in Mid-Air (1979) — Betsy Culver
  19. The Little House Years (1979) — Caroline Ingalls
  20. Battered (1978) — Susannah Hawks
  21. Tales of Everyday Magic (2012)
  22. Where's Roman? (2017) — Mysterious Woman
  23. Little House Homecoming (2025) — Self