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− | Lifetime Entertainment Services. "More About [[Melissa Gilbert]]'s Personal Life." [Includes portrait]. Available at: | + | Lifetime Entertainment Services. "More About [[Melissa Gilbert]]'s Personal Life." [Includes portrait]. Available at: www.lifetimetv.com/onair/intimate/frameset.shtml/port9818_2.html |
− | Jenkins, Shannon. "The Unofficial Melissa Gilbert Homepage." [Includes portraits]. Available at: | + | Jenkins, Shannon. "The Unofficial Melissa Gilbert Homepage." [Includes portraits]. Available at: www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Set/5998/melissa.html |
− | Krijgsman, P.D. "About Sara: The Unofficial Sara Gilbert Fan Page." [Includes portraits]. Available at: | + | Krijgsman, P.D. "About Sara: The Unofficial Sara Gilbert Fan Page." [Includes portraits]. Available at: www.geocities.com/~krijgsman/sara/_sara.htm |
− | Slegg, Jennifer. "Jonathan Gilbert." Available at: | + | Slegg, Jennifer. "Jonathan Gilbert." Available at: carver.pinc.com/home/jenslegg/jgilbert.htm |
[[Category: Adoption Celebrities]] | [[Category: Adoption Celebrities]] |
Latest revision as of 19:33, 3 March 2018
Biography
Melissa Gilbert was adopted as a new-born baby by a well-known Hollywood family. Her parents were actors and her grandfather was a television writer. Her parents divorced when she was eight and her adoptive father died when she was 11
became one of the principal actors, playing Laura Ingalls, in the long-running television series Little House on the Prairie, whose male lead, Michael Landon, became a surrogate father-figure to her. She has a large number of other acting credits to her name.
The family also includes an adopted brother, Jonathan, now a New York stockbroker, who as a child also acted in Little House on the Prairie, playing the part of Willie Oleson; he also later acted with Melissa in The Miracle Worker. Their half-sister, Sara, who played Darlene in the sitcom Roseanne, is not adopted.
References
Lifetime Entertainment Services. "More About Melissa Gilbert's Personal Life." [Includes portrait]. Available at: www.lifetimetv.com/onair/intimate/frameset.shtml/port9818_2.html Jenkins, Shannon. "The Unofficial Melissa Gilbert Homepage." [Includes portraits]. Available at: www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Set/5998/melissa.html Krijgsman, P.D. "About Sara: The Unofficial Sara Gilbert Fan Page." [Includes portraits]. Available at: www.geocities.com/~krijgsman/sara/_sara.htm Slegg, Jennifer. "Jonathan Gilbert." Available at: carver.pinc.com/home/jenslegg/jgilbert.htm