Profile
Melissa Gilbert
Actress + Screen Actor + Director
Female
Born
May 8, 1964
Age
49
Hometown
Los Angeles
Other Names
Melissa Ellen Gil...
Melissa Ellen Gilbert is an American actress, writer, and producer, primarily in film and television. Gilbert is best known as a child actress who starred as Laura Ingalls Wilder, on the NBC series Little House on the Prairie (1974–1984). As an adult… Read More
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Romance
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Bo BrinkmanMarried 1988 - 1992
Family
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Melissa Gilbert
Age 49
siblings
children
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Dakota BrinkmanSon, Age 24
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Michael BoxleitnerSon, Age 18
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Melissa Gilbert & Timothy Busfield Wed (See Her Red Wedding Dress!)Yahoo News - Apr 25, 2013
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Melissa Gilbert And Timothy Busfield Are MarriedSeattle Pi - Apr 25, 2013
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Melissa Gilbert Engaged To Thirtysomething's Timothy Busfield (People.Com)Wesmirch.com - Jan 30, 2013
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Melissa Gilbert Opens Up About Past AddictionEntertainment Tonight - Sep 21, 2012
Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1964
Birth
Born on May 8, 1964.
TEENAGE
Her mother, Barbara, then married Harold Abeles, and together they had biological daughter Sara Rebecca Abeles (the actress known professionally as Sara Gilbert), born on January 29, 1975.
1983
19 Years Old
Gilbert had no contact with Landon after Little House ended during the 1983–84 season.
TWENTIES
1988
24 Years Old
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The couple married on February 22, 1988, only seven weeks after she ended her relationship with Rob Lowe.
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1989
25 Years Old
On May 1, 1989, she gave birth to Dakota Paul Brinkman. After Dakota's birth, the couple began to have marital problems and divorced in 1992.
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1991
27 Years Old
Seven years later, on May 9, 1991, when she saw a gaunt-looking Landon on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson discussing his pancreatic cancer, she was compelled to finally telephone him.
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THIRTIES
After reuniting for a third time, they finally married on January 1, 1995 in her mother's living room.
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1996
32 Years Old
Gilbert has continued to work regularly, mainly in television. She starred as Jean Donovan in the biopic Choices of the Heart (1983), and as Anna Sheridan in three episodes of Babylon 5 with then husband Bruce Boxleitner in 1996.
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1998
34 Years Old
In 1998, she was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
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2001
37 Years Old
Gilbert was elected president of the Screen Actors Guild in 2001 after a contentious candidacy, in which she ultimately beat her opponent, Rhoda actress Valerie Harper, 21,351 votes to 12,613 votes after a second vote was taken.
2003
39 Years Old
In 2003, she was re-elected, defeating Kent McCord with 50% of the vote to his 42%.
FORTIES
2010
46 Years Old
On July 22, 2010 Gilbert underwent surgery to replace a disc as well as fuse a vertebra in her lower spine.
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On March 1, 2011, Gilbert announced that she and Boxleitner had separated.
2012
48 Years Old
In March 2012, Gilbert joined the cast of celebrity contestants on season 14 of Dancing with the Stars.
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