Melissa Sue Anderson was born on the 26th September, 1962 in Berkeley, California, USA. She is an actress, the winner of the Emmy Award and TP de Oro Award. Melissa is especially known for having played the role of Mary Ingalls in the television series “Little House on the Prairie” (1974 – 1983). Anderson has been inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame in 1998. Melissa Sue Anderson has been active in the entertainment industry since 1972.
How much is the net worth of Melissa Sue Anderson? It has been estimated by authoritative sources that the total size of her wealth is as much as $1.5 million, as of the data presented in the middle of 2016. Acting is the main source of her net worth.
Melissa Sue Anderson Net Worth $1.5 Million
To begin with, her artistic career began when her dance teacher encouraged her parents to find an agent for Melissa Sue. Then, she started working in commercials for television, and soon began to get offers to appear in various series, including an episode of the series “The Brady Bunch” (1973), “Shaft” (1973) and others. At the still young age of eleven, she was cast as Mary in the TV series “Little House on the Prairie” (1974 – 1983), which made her famous around the world. She was nominated as the Best lead actress in a drama series for her work in the series in 1976. Moreover, she won an Emmy Award for her role in “Which Mother Is Mine?” (1979) aired on ABC. Also 1979, the girl travelled to Madrid to be interviewed by Mayra Gómez Kemp in the Spanish television program “625 lines” – in 1980, Melissa Sue Anderson won a TP de Oro (which is the most prestigious television award in Spain) for the Best Foreign Actress for her role as Mary in the series “Little House on the Prairie”. Around that time, she created many roles for television films including “CHiPs” (1979), “Midnight Offerings” (1981), “Advice to the Lovelorn” (1981) and “An Innocent Love” (1981). Her net worth was increasing steadily.
Thereafter, she made appearances in several movies made for the big screen; inthe horror film “Happy Birthday” in 1982, in which she plays the young student suspected of murder. In 1980, she applied for the role of Emmeline in the film “The Blue Lagoon” and in 1988, she auditioned for the role of Sarah Tobias in the film “Defendants”. In 1990, she produced the film “Where Pigeons Go to Die”. Then, she appeared in “10.5: Apocalypse” in 2006. Currently, she is working on the set of the upcoming heist comedy film “The Brits Are Coming” directed by James Oakley.
Melissa Sue has now appeared in over 40 TV productions, and more than a dozen films on the big screen, testifying to her talent.
In addition to this, Melissa Sue Anderson published an autobiographical book “The Way I see it” which was released in 2010 that talks about the filming of “Little House on the Prairie” and the life of a little Melissa Sue.
Finally, in the personal life of the actress, she has been married to Michael Sloan since 1990 – the family has two children and are now naturalised Canadians.
