# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/melissa-gilbert
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:17:48.528Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/melissa-gilbert"
name: "Melissa Gilbert"
slug: "melissa-gilbert"
description: "Melissa Ellen Gilbert is an American actress. Gilbert began her career as a child actress in the late 1960s, appearing in numerous commercials and guest-starring roles on television. From 1974 to 1983, she starred as Laura Ingalls Wilder, the second-oldest daughter of Charles Ingalls on the NBC series Little House on the Prairie. During the run of Little House, Gilbert appeared in several television films, including The Diary of Anne Frank (1980) and The Miracle Worker (1979). As an adult, she continued her career mainly in television films. From 2009 to 2010, Gilbert appeared as Caroline \"Ma\" Ingalls in the touring production of Little House on the Prairie, the Musical. In 2012, she was a contestant on season fourteen of the reality dance competition show Dancing with the Stars on ABC."
tagline: "American actress"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Melissa_Gilbert_after_Drug_Free_America_shoot_-_cropped_(5242325680).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1964-05-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "MEGBusfield"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump