1978 Press Photo Karen Grassle American Film & Television Actress

Karen Grassle, American actress stars in the TV movie "Battered."

Karen Grassle (born February 25, 1942 in Berkeley, California) is an American actress, best known for her role as Caroline Ingalls, the wife of Michael Landon's character and the mother of Melissa Gilbert's character, on the Little House on the Prairie TV series. She graduated from Ventura High School in 1959 (after skipping two grades), serving as the student body's vice-president, and afterward enrolled in Sophie Newcomb College (Tulane University, 1959-1960) and then the University of California, Berkeley. She graduated with two BA degrees in 1965, one in English, the other in Dramatic Art. She received a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and eventually became head of its Voice Department. Her first acting job in New York City was in the short-lived 1968 play The Gingham Tree, and she began calling herself "Gabriel Tree."
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