Karen Grassle

Karen Grassle ( born February 25, 1942 in Berkeley, California) is an American actress. Your year of birth is given in various sources with 1944.

Career

After completing her degree in English and theater at the University of California at Berkeley, Grassle got 20 years a scholarship to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art ( LAMDA ). Then she joined some theater companies. In addition, she has held various roles in three soap operas.

Your up to date most successful role was that of mother figure Caroline Ingalls in the Little House series. In this role, which she played from 1974-1982, it reached a high degree of popularity in Germany.

After the series was followed by several smaller films with limited success. Grassle played further in several episodes of Cruising Fun and Arabesque with. In American television, she is often seen as an advertising spokesperson for the videos of the series Little House.

Grassle is the initiator of the first shelters for abused women, which was founded in the USA. In 1978 she took over in the book written by her own TV movie Battered which deals with domestic violence, one of the lead roles. In 1989, the actress, a theater company in Santa Fe in New Mexico.

In the biopic Wyatt Earp - The life of a legend with Kevin Costner in the title role, Grassle played the mother of the film heroes. In 2000, she played the lead role in the play Wit, which deals with the topic of cancer. In 2012 she starred in the film drama Tales of Everyday Magic with. The focus of her work is now mainly in the theater.

Private life

With her ​​second husband, a real estate agent, the actress adopted a child in 1985. The marriage was just like her first marriage to actor Leon Russom and her third marriage divorced with an osteopath. Grassle lives with her adopted daughter in Pacific Palisades in California.