{"id":2179,"date":"2024-06-21T00:35:13","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T00:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/?p=2179"},"modified":"2024-06-21T00:35:14","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T00:35:14","slug":"melissa-sue-anderson-star-of-little-house-on-the-prairie-speaks-of-her-decision-to-leave-hollywood-for-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/melissa-sue-anderson-star-of-little-house-on-the-prairie-speaks-of-her-decision-to-leave-hollywood-for-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Melissa Sue Anderson, star of \u2018Little House on the Prairie,\u2019 speaks of her decision to leave Hollywood for Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>How often have you thought about an old show you loved and wondered what the actors are up to now? Fans of \u201cLittle House on the Prairie,\u201d eagerly following the adventures of the family on their farm in Plum Creek near Walnut Grove, Minnesota, may be curious about the actors\u2019 lives today.\n\n\n\n<figure class='\"wp-block-image\"'><img decoding='\"async\"' src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/ddnews.us%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/06%5C/usa-1-720x1024-1.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"\"' class='\"wp-image-5442\"\/'>\n\n\n\n<p>Those who admired Melissa Sue Anderson, who played Mary Ingalls, might have expected her to remain a TV fixture, but she chose a different path. Anderson left Hollywood and moved to Canada, speaking candidly about her decision.\n\n\n\n</p><p>She began her career in guest roles before becoming a central figure on \u201cLittle House on the Prairie.\u201d Her portrayal earned her several nominations for Best Lead Actress in a Drama Series. Reflecting on her role in 2010, Anderson told Pop Entertainment, \u201cI\u2019m lucky that there even was a character to play because in the book, there isn\u2019t much of one\u2026 I\u2019m fortunate that they discovered that I could act.\u201d\n\n\n\n<figure class='\"wp-block-image\"'><img decoding='\"async\"' src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/ddnews.us%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/06%5C/BE5F7837-1E85-4BAC-A855-F890E4589ED0.jpeg%5C%22" alt='\"\"' class='\"wp-image-5443\"\/'>\n\n\n\n<p>After \u201cLittle House,\u201d Anderson took on minor roles until she married television producer Michael Sloan in 1990. In 2002, they moved to Montreal with their two children, Piper and Griffin. By 2007, they became Canadian citizens. Anderson stepped back from showbiz to focus on her family.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"</p><div class='\"mh-excerpt\"'><p>How often have you thought about an old show you loved and wondered what the actors are up to now? Fans of \u201cLittle House on <a class='\"mh-excerpt-more\"' href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/sciencesandnatures.com%5C/melissa-sue-anderson-star-of-little-house-on-the-prairie-speaks-of-her-decision-to-leave-hollywood-for-canada%5C/%5C%22" title='\"Melissa' sue anderson star of house on the prairie speaks her decision to leave hollywood for canada>[&hellip;]\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2181,"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179\/revisions\/2181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}</a></p></div></figure></p></figure></p>