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词条 Karen Grassle
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  1. Early life

  2. Career

  3. Filmography

  4. References

  5. External links

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|birth_name = Karen Trust Grassle
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1942|2|25}}
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|years_active = 1966–present
|spouse = Dr. Scott Sutherland (1991 - 1997) (divorced)
James Allen Radford (1982 -1987) (divorced) (1 child)
Leon Russom (1966-1970) (divorced)
}}Karen Trust Grassle (born February 25, 1942) is an American actress, known for her role as Caroline Ingalls, the wife of Michael Landon's character and the mother of Melissa Sue Anderson’s and Melissa Gilbert's character, in the NBC television drama series Little House on the Prairie.[1]

Early life

Grassle studied ballet, acted in school plays, sang in the Baptist choir, and was Vice President of the student body her senior year, when she graduated from Ventura High School in 1959. She attended Sophie Newcomb College (Tulane University, 1959–60) and then transferred to the University of California, Berkeley.[1] She graduated with BA degrees in 1965, a BA in English, the other in Dramatic Art. She received a Fulbright Fellowship to the London Academy of Dramatic Art in London.[1] She apprenticed at the Actor's Workshop of San Francisco in 1961-62.

Her parents, Gene F. Grassle and Frae Ella Berry had struggled through the depression, as well as Frae being a school teacher and Gene a small business man. They established the Grassle Realty in Ventura, California in the 50's.

Career

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.[2]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 entitled "The Wiving" as Fran, one of several saloon girls kidnapped à la Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Subsequently, she acted in the features Wyatt Earp, starring Kevin Costner, in 1994. and Harry's War, a 1981 American film. She played Kathy, the wife of Edward Herrmann's title character. 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,""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.

Ms. 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 occasionally appeared in commercials such as the promotional face for Premier Bathrooms, a supplier of bathing products for the elderly and infirm.

TEACHING

LAMDA: Voice Department Chair

College of Santa Fe:Acting for the Camera

Independent Voice Teacher: Stella Adler Studio, Linklater Studio, Los Angeles, and Shakespeare and Co., England.

Film Acting Workshop: University of California at Berkeley

DIRECTING

Keely and Du Marshall University

Rain Actors Theatre of Louisville Apprentice Showcase

Cow Actors Theatre of Louisville Apprentice Showcase

Waiting for Godot Equity Production, Resource Theatre Co., Santa Fe, NM

Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune Resource Theatre Co., Santa Fe, NM

Filmography

Film and Television roles
Year Title RoleNotes
1974–82 Little House on the Prairie Caroline Ingalls 182 episodes
1974 Gunsmoke Fran Episode: "The Wiving"
1977 Emily, Emily Terry TV film
1978 The President's Mistress Donna Morton TV film
1978 Battered Susannah Hawks Also writer
1979 Crisis in Mid-air Betsy Culver TV film
1979 Little House Years Caroline Ingalls TV special of Little House on the Prairie
1981 Harry's War Kathy Feature film
1981 The Love Boat Paula Episode: "Maid for Each Other/Lost and Found/Then There Were Two"
1983 One Man's Seduction Barbara Gant TV film
1983 Hotel Susan Walker Episode: "Christmas"
1984 Little House: The Last Farewell Caroline Ingalls TV film
1985 Between the Darkness and the Dawn Ellen Foster Holland TV film
1987 Murder, She Wrote Christine Stoneham Episode: "Murder in a Minor Key"
1988 Murder, She Wrote Fay Hewitt Episode: "Harbinger of Death"
1994 Wyatt Earp Mrs. Sutherland Feature film
2012 Tales of Everyday Magic Aunt Dorothy Feature film
2012 My Greatest Teacher Aunt Dorothy Feature film
2017 Lasso Lillian Feature film
2017 Where's Roman? Mysterious Woman Short film

References

1. ^Karen Grassle Biography, Biography Channel
2. ^Remembering Brandon.net/A Word on the Elitch Theatre While contracted by "Butterflies are Free," she continued to do experimental work with artists such as JoAnne Akalaitis and at the Public Theatre. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116181318/http://www.rememberingbrandon.net/A-Word-on-the-Elitch-Theatre.html |date=January 16, 2013 }}

External links

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  • {{Official website|http://www.karengrassle.net/}}
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  • The Carolyn Jackson Collection, No.52-Interview with Karen Grassle from the Texas Archive of the Moving Image
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