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Sara Gilbert: Melissa Gilbert
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Actress Melissa Gilbert was born in New York, N.Y on May 8th 1964. First appeared on tv in Gunsmoke in 1972. In 1974 Melissa starred in Little House on the Prairie as Laura Ingalls. The long-running series ended in 1983. In 2002 she beat-out Valerie Harper to be elected president of the Screen Actors Guild. In 1999 she starred with Rosanna Arquette in Mistaken Identity.
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Her two older siblings were stars of Little House on the Prairie: Melissa Gilbert and Jonathan Gilbert. Melissa and Jonathan were adopted by Barbara and her first husband Paul Gilbert (born Paul MacMahon); Paul died in 1975.
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Info: Sara decided she wanted to be an actor at the age of six when she saw her sister Melissa get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Sara promptly told her mother that she wanted to be an actress too.
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