Melissa Sue Anderson (born September 26, 1962) is an American actress. She played the role of Mary Ingalls on the NBC television series Little House on the Prairie. She starred on the show from 1974 until 1981, leaving after Season 7, but later appeared in 2 episodes of Season 8 in late 1981. She won an Emmy Award for her performance in Which Mother Is Mine? (1979). One of her more recent performances was as First Lady Megan Hollister in the 2006 television mini-series 10.5: Apocalypse.

Filmography

• 2018The Con Is On — Guest Two
• 2014Little House on the Prairie: A Merry Ingalls Christmas — Mary Ingalls
• 2008While She Was Out — Cassie (voice) (uncredited)
• Marco Polo — Mother (voice) (uncredited)
• 10.5: Apocalypse — Megan Hollister
• 2006Crazy Eights — Hospital Patient (uncredited)
• 2000Thin Ice — Tanya Ferguson
• 1998Earthquake in New York — Marilyn Blake
• E! True Hollywood Story
• Burke's Law — Michelle Ryder
• X-Men
• 1990Dead Men Don't Die — Dulcie Niles
• 1989Memories of Manon — Yvette Marcel
• 1989The Return of Sam McCloud — Colleen McCloud
• 1988Far North — Nurse
• 1988The Suicide Club — Laura Donovan
• 1986Dark Mansions — Noelle Drake
• The Equalizer — Yvette Marcel
• The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents — Laura Donovan, Julie Fenton
• 1984Chattanooga Choo Choo — Jennie
• Finder of Lost Loves — Nikki Gatos
• Glitter
• 1984Killing Machine — Kukki
• Murder, She Wrote — Eve Crystal
• 1983First Affair — Toby King
• 1982An Innocent Love — Molly Rush
• Hotel — Cassie Ray
• 1981Advice to the Lovelorn — Maureen Tyler
• 1981Happy Birthday to Me — Virginia Wainwright
• 1981Midnight Offerings — Vivian Sotherland
• 1979The Little House Years — Mary Ingalls
• 1979The Survival of Dana — Dana Lee
• 1978A Different Approach
• 1977James at 15 — Lacey Stevens
• The Love Boat — Jennifer "Chubs" Smith, Cindy Jerome, Cathy Cummings
• Battle of the Network Stars
• 1976The Loneliest Runner — Nancy Rizzi
• 1974Little House on the Prairie — Mary Ingalls
• Little House on the Prairie — Mary Ingalls, Mary Ingalls Kendall
• The Brady Bunch — Millicent
• Bewitched — Girl (uncredited)

Appearances as themselves (4)

• 2002NBC 75th Anniversary Special — Self
• Intimate Portrait — Self
• 1982Hollywood’s Children — Self (archive footage)
• The Mike Douglas Show — Self