# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/melissa-sue-anderson
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:38:03.284Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/melissa-sue-anderson"
name: "Melissa Sue Anderson"
slug: "melissa-sue-anderson"
description: "Melissa Sue Anderson is an American-Canadian actress. She began her career as a child actress after appearing in several commercials in Los Angeles. Anderson is known for her role as Mary Ingalls in the NBC drama series Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983), for which she received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series."
tagline: "Actress"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/1974_Melissa_Sue_Anderson_Little_House_on_the_Prairie.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1962-09-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           57.89
  momentum:             1.814502898392213
  historical:           22.231252
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0000757"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump