Her teacher encouraged her parents to try to locate an agent for her while she was attending dancing courses, which led to her appearing in various advertisements, including Mattel and Sears commercials. Soon after, she began receiving offers for television jobs, including a guest appearance on an episode of “Bewitched.”
She also played Millicent, a girl who kissed Bobby in “The Brady Bunch,” and she appeared in an episode of “Shaft” the same year. These eventually led to her landing a role in “Little House on the Prairie,” which she would work on for the following eight years, with the story centered on a farm family in the 1870s and 1880s.
Little House on the Prairie has come to an end.
Melissa Sue won a nomination the following year for her role in the horror film “Happy Birthday to Me” after leaving “Little House on the Prairie” after the seventh season. She then appeared in films such as “The Equalizer,” “Murder, She Wrote,” and “CHiPs.”
She also experimented in production, working as an associate producer on a 1990 television episode of “Where Pigeons Go to Die,” Michael Landon’s final film. She was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame in 1998 and starred in the ill-fated television sitcom “Partners” the following year.
In the latter phases of her career, she did very little acting. In the 2006 miniseries “10.5 Apocalypse,” she played First Lady Megan Hollister, one of her final television performances.
She has appeared in a number of short films and played Stosh’s mother in the uncredited role of “Veronica Mars” in 2014. “The Way I See It: A Look Back at My Life on Little House” was her autobiography based on her experience as a child star, and it includes behind-the-scenes stories about cast members, guests, and crew.
The family moved to Montreal in 2002 and became naturalized Canadians five years later on Canada Day. According to sources, she has largely abandoned her acting career in order to be a stay-at-home mom and care for her family.
In an interview, she stated that one of her most difficult jobs was when her character went blind during the fourth season of “Little House on the Prairie.
