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- NAME: Karen Grassle
- OCCUPATION: Theater Actress, Television Actress
- BIRTH DATE: February 25, 1944 (Age: 69)
- EDUCATION: University of California, Berkeley, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Berkeley, California
- ZODIAC SIGN: Pisces
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For close to a decade, actress Karen Grassle was known to TV audiences as pioneer mother, Caroline Ingalls, on the hit show, Little House on the Prairie.
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Karen Grassle, http://www.biography.com/people/karen-grassle-222401 (last visited Jun 18, 2013).
Karen Grassle. The Biography Channel website. 2013. Available at: http://www.biography.com/people/karen-grassle-222401. Accessed Jun 18, 2013.
Karen Grassle lives in Pacific Palisades, California, with her daughter Lily. Single, she previously had been married to Leon Russom, J. Allen Radford and Scott Sutherland.
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