Schuyler Grant
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox person Schuyler Grant is an American former actress best known for playing Diana Barry in Anne of Green Gables (1985) and for other supporting roles in television.
Education and personal life
Grant is a graduate of Analy High School, class of 1988,<ref name="SG2NYC">"Grant goes to N.Y.C.". Sonoma West Times and News. August 25, 1988. p. 20. Retrieved July 23, 2023.</ref> and of Columbia University, where she met her husband, Jeff Krasno, in 1993.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> They married in 1995 and have three children: Phoebe, Lolli, and Micah Krasno.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Family
{{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} Grant is the daughter of Jack Grant and Ann Grant.<ref name="SG2NYC"/> She has one brother, Jason Grant.<ref>"Academic Olympiad Medals Awarded". Sonoma West Times and News. March 28, 1985. p. 5. Retrieved July 23, 2023. "Jason Grant, a senior at Analy High, won the bronze medal and $50 in the social science competition. He has also won the Bank of America Plaque for Liberal Arts and is a National Merit finalist. His parents are Ann and Jack Grant."</ref>
Her paternal grandmother was Connecticut historian Marion Hepburn, sister of actress Katharine Hepburn and daughter of suffragist Katharine Martha Houghton Hepburn, who, with Margaret Sanger, played a prominent role in the American Birth Control League that would evolve into Planned Parenthood.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Her paternal grandfather was Ellsworth Strong Grant, a historian and former mayor of West Hartford, Connecticut, who was a direct descendant of Puritan minister Thomas Hooker.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Notable relatives in the acting world include her aunt Katharine Houghton and her great-aunt Katharine Hepburn.<ref name="sullivanmovies">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Anne of Green Gables fame
Grant is best known for her work in the Canadian Anne of Green Gables mini-series,<ref name="sullivanmovies" /> in which she played Diana Barry opposite Megan Follows as Anne Shirley. Grant reprised her role in the sequel Anne of Avonlea (1987), in which Diana married Fred Wright and had a child, as well as the trilogy's finale Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story (2000).
Additional roles
At age 17, Grant co-starred with her great-aunt Katharine Hepburn in Laura Lansing Slept Here (1988),<ref name="MH re KH–SG & MG">Template:Cite news</ref> and she later played the role of Camille Hawkins on All My Children. This character had a brief romance with another All My Children character, Tad Martin.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | Anne of Green Gables | Diana Barry | TV movie |
| 1987 | Anne of Avonlea | ||
| 1988 | Laura Lansing Slept Here | Annette Gomphers | |
| 1991 | Law & Order | Callie | Episode: "Aria" |
| 1998 | Wrestling with Alligators | Delores | |
| All My Children | Camille Hawkins / Joy Hawkins | 3 episodes | |
| 2000 | Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story | Diana Barry Wright | TV movie |
See also
References
External links
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- 20th-century American actresses
- 21st-century American women
- Actresses from the San Francisco Bay Area
- American child actresses
- American soap opera actresses
- American television actresses
- Analy High School alumni
- Columbia College, Columbia University alumni
- Houghton family
- Living people
- Year of birth missing (living people)