Leslie Landon Matthews (née Landon; born October 11, 1962) is an American clinical psychologist and former actress. She had a supporting role on the Little House on the Prairie television series, in which her father, Michael Landon, played the lead.
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Born | Leslie Ann Landon (1962-10-11) October 11, 1962 (age 60) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Education | Pepperdine University (BA, MA) California Graduate Institute (PhD.) |
Occupation | Actress clinical psychologist |
Years active | 1975–1984 |
Known for | Portraying Etta Plum in Little House on the Prairie |
Spouse | Brian Matthews (m. 1990) |
Children | 4, including Rachel Matthews |
Parent(s) | Michael Landon Marjorie Lynn Noe |
Relatives | Michael Landon, Jr. (brother) Christopher B. Landon (brother) Jennifer Landon (paternal half-sister) Mark Landon (adoptive brother) |
Born in Los Angeles, California, Landon is notable for her portrayal of schoolteacher Etta Plum on Little House on the Prairie from 1982 to 1984. She also made small guest appearances in four other episodes of Little House between 1975 and 1981.[1]
Landon's parents are actor-director Michael Landon and Marjorie Lynn Noe (known as Lynn Noe).[2] Landon has eight siblings. Two brothers, Michael Landon Jr. and Christopher Landon, and a sister, Shawna Leigh Landon, from her parents' marriage. From her mother's first marriage, Landon has another half-sister, Cheryl Lynn Landon. From her father's marriage to Cindy Clerico Landon, she has a half-sister, Jennifer Landon, and a half-brother, Sean Matthew Landon. She has an adopted brother, Mark Landon (now deceased) as well as a half-brother, Josh Landon, both from her father's first marriage to Dodie Fraser.[3] Her paternal grandfather was Jewish,[4] whereas her paternal grandmother was Catholic, although her father was raised Jewish.[5]
Landon married Brian Matthews in 1990. Her eldest daughter, born in 1993, Rachel Matthews, is also an actress,[6] with her film debut in Happy Death Day that was directed by her uncle Christopher.[7]
Landon obtained a BA in psychology and an MA in clinical psychology from Pepperdine University and a Ph.D. in marriage and family therapy from the California Graduate Institute.[8][9][10]
In a 1985 interview, Landon claimed he ate lunch alone at Collingswood High School, that he never had a date as a teen-ager because no Christian father in the town would allow his daughter to go out with a Jew.
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