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Image:MelissaGilbertYoung.jpg Gilbert as Laura Ingalls in Little House on the Prairie
Family and early careerGilbert was born in Los Angeles, California, to a Jewish family. She was adopted by actor Paul Gilbert (born Paul MacMahon) and his wife, Barbara Crane. Her younger brother, Jonathan Gilbert stock broker), was also adopted. Melissa and Jonathan worked together when he portrayed Willie Oleson in Little House on the Prairie and in the movie The Miracle Worker. When Melissa was eight, her parents divorced, and when she was 11, her adoptive father died. Her adoptive mother married Harold Abeles and gave birth in 1975 to Sara Abeles, who became an actress. In 1984 Sara Abeles changed her name to Sara Gilbert. Sara would later star in the American television series Roseanne. Career after Little HouseGilbert has continued to work regularly, mainly in television. She starred as Jean Donovan in the biopic Choices of the Heart (1983), and played Anna Sheridan in three episodes of Babylon 5 in 1996. Melissa won the Screen Actors Guild presidency in 2001 after a competitive election in which she ultimately beat her opponent, Valerie Harper, 21,351 votes to 12,613 votes after a second vote was taken. In July 2005, she announced that she would not seek a third term. She was succeeded by Alan Rosenberg, who assumed the Guild presidency on September 25.
Gilbert regularly keeps in contact with her friend Alison Arngrim, who played her nemesis and sometimes best friend "Nellie Oleson" on Little House on the Prairie. and is still living Marriage
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