How often have you thought about an old show you enjoyed watching and wondered what the cast members are up to after all these years? I suspect that many of you who watched Our Little Farm and were excited by each new adventure of the family living on the farm in Plum Creek near Walnut Grove, Minnesota, would like to know what the cast members are up to these days.
Fans who loved actress Melissa Sue Anderson, who played Mary Ingalls, were convinced that she would continue to be a part of their lives on screen, but she had other plans. Today, she opens up about her decision to leave Hollywood behind and move to Canada. This actress began her career in guest roles and found her way into show business when she became one of the central characters on Little Farm. Her performance earned her multiple nominations for best actress in a drama series, and her fans knew she deserved it.
Of her experience filming the drama that made her famous, Anderson told Pop Entertainment in 2010: “I’m lucky that there was even a part to play because there’s not a lot of her in the book. Laura [Ingalls, author of the “Little House” novels on which the series is based and the story is centered] was a much older woman when she wrote the books.
She remembered the best of her life. The Ma and Mary characters didn’t really matter. There were a lot of Laura and Pa and Laura and Jack the Dog and Laura and Mr. Edwards, but there wasn’t a lot of Mary. I’m lucky that they found out I could play.” After “Little House on the Prairie,” she tried other smaller roles, but married television producer Michael Sloan in 1990 and moved to Montreal in 2002 with her husband and their two children, daughter Piper and son Griffin. In 2007, the family became Canadian citizens, and with their new life came new responsibilities. As a result, Anderson decided to leave show business behind as she wanted to spend more time with her children and did not want them to feel pressured to pursue acting careers themselves.
In an interview with E-Talk, Anderson said, “I retired for a long time. This was really for the kids, so they could develop their own sense of self instead of always being with me.”
However, Anderson did not completely step away from acting, instead taking on smaller roles in recent years. years. Her life experience as part of a series like Our Little Farm encouraged her to write the memoir titled The Way I See It: A Look Back at My Life on Little House.
