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What is Melissa Gilbert’s Net Worth and Salary?

Melissa Gilbert, an actress and director, has a net worth of $500,000 combined with her husband Timothy Busfield. Gilbert gained fame in the 1970s portraying Laura Ingalls Wilder on the television series “Little House on the Prairie”. She has struggled financially and personally in recent years due to a cooling career, costly divorce, and tax issues. Gilbert entered politics in 2016 as a Democratic candidate for Congress for Michigan’s 8th congressional district. She has appeared in TV movies and films, voiced a character on “Batman: The Animated Series”, and competed on “Dancing with the Stars” in 2012. Gilbert has been nominated for one Emmy and one Golden Globe award and won two Young Artist Awards for her work on “Little House on the Prairie”. Gilbert served as president of the Screen Actors Guild from 2001 until 2005 and documented her battle with addiction in her 2009 memoir “Prairie Tale”.

Early Life and Family

Melissa Gilbert was born on May 8, 1964 in Los Angeles, California and was given up for adoption. She was adopted by actor Paul Gilbert and his wife, actress Barbara Crane, just one day after her birth. Gilbert’s adoptive parents divorced when she was eight years old and her mother later remarried Harold Abeles, with whom she had a daughter named Sara. Gilbert also has a brother named Jonathan who was adopted by her parents. However, when Gilbert was 11, her adoptive father died by suicide. Later, her mother and stepfather also divorced.