
Melissa Sue Anderson
Department: Acting
Biography
Melissa Sue Anderson (born September 26, 1962) is an American actress. She played the role of Mary Ingalls on the NBC television series Little House on the Prairie. She starred on the show from 1974 until 1981, leaving after Season 7, but later appeared in 2 episodes of Season 8 in late 1981. She won an Emmy Award for her performance in Which Mother Is Mine? (1979). One of her more recent performances was as First Lady Megan Hollister in the 2006 television mini-series 10.5: Apocalypse.
Known For

Far North
1988

Happy Birthday to Me
1981

Midnight Offerings
1981

Dead Men Don't Die
1990

The Loneliest Runner
1976

A Different Approach
1978

Little House on the Prairie
1974

NBC 75th Anniversary Special
2002

The Survival of Dana
1979

The Return of Sam McCloud
1989

James at 15
1977

Killing Machine
1984

Advice to the Lovelorn
1981

The Suicide Club
1988

Chattanooga Choo Choo
1984

Earthquake in New York
1998

Dark Mansions
1986

The Con Is On
2018

Little House on the Prairie: A Merry Ingalls Christmas
2014

An Innocent Love
1982

The Little House Years
1979

Hollywood’s Children
1982

Memories of Manon
1989

First Affair
1983

While She Was Out
2008

Thin Ice
2000

Crazy Eights
2006

Little House on the Prairie
1974

The Love Boat
1977

The Brady Bunch
1969

E! True Hollywood Story
1996

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1985

Hotel
1982

The Equalizer
1985

Bewitched
1964

X-Men
1992

Glitter
1984

Battle of the Network Stars
1976

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1985

Intimate Portrait
1993

The Mike Douglas Show
1961

10.5: Apocalypse
2006

Marco Polo
2007

Burke's Law
1994

Finder of Lost Loves
1984

The Love Boat
1977

The Love Boat
1977

Murder, She Wrote
1984

Little House on the Prairie
1974