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.
Schuyler Grant | |
|---|---|
| Alma mater | Columbia University |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1985–2000 |
| Known for | Anne of Green Gables Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story |
| Spouse | Jeff Krasno (m. 1995) |
| Relatives | Katharine Hepburn (great-aunt) Katharine Houghton (aunt) |
| Family | See Houghton family |
| Website | schuylergrant |
Education and personal life
editGrant is a graduate of Analy High School, class of 1988,[1] and of Columbia University, where she met her husband, Jeff Krasno, in 1993.[2][3] They married in 1995 and have three children: Phoebe, Lolli, and Micah Krasno.[4]
Family
editGrant is the daughter of Jack Grant and Ann Grant.[1] She has one brother, Jason Grant.[5]
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.[6][7][8] 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.[9]
Notable relatives in the acting world include her aunt Katharine Houghton and her great-aunt Katharine Hepburn.[10][11]
Anne of Green Gables fame
editGrant is best known for her work in the Canadian Anne of Green Gables mini-series,[10] 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
editAt age 17, Grant co-starred with her great-aunt Katharine Hepburn in Laura Lansing Slept Here (1988),[12] 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.[13]
Filmography
edit| 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
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Grant goes to N.Y.C.". Sonoma West Times and News. August 25, 1988. p. 20. Retrieved July 23, 2023.
- ^ "Columbia Fit Club". Columbia Magazine. Retrieved September 25, 2020.
- ^ "Wanderlust Schuyler Grant: Hack Quarantine Tedium & Despair". Wanderlust. April 10, 2020. Retrieved September 25, 2020.
- ^ https://www.betterplaceproject.org/wanderlust-founders-jeff-krasno-schuyler-grant/#:~:text=In%201995%2C%20Jeff%20married%20Schuyler,%2C%20Phoebe%2C%20Lolli%20and%20Micah.
{{cite news}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ "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."
- ^ Upi (August 3, 1986). "Marion Hepburn Grant Dies; Wrote Books on Connecticut". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved September 25, 2020.
- ^ "Katharine Houghton Hepburn". CT Women’s Hall of Fame. Retrieved September 25, 2020.
- ^ "Katharine Houghton Hepburn, A Woman Before Her Time". Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project. March 18, 2015. Retrieved September 25, 2020.
- ^ Stagis, Julie (March 14, 2013). "Ellsworth Grant, Former West Hartford Mayor and State Historian, Dies At 95". Courant Community. Retrieved September 25, 2020.
- ^ a b "Cast: Then and Now". anne.sullivanmovies.com. Archived from the original on May 12, 2015. Retrieved July 10, 2015.
- ^ Carter, Maria (January 21, 2016). "Then and Now: The "Anne of Green Gables" Cast". Country Living. Retrieved September 25, 2020.
- ^ Hughes, Mike (March 7, 1988). "Hepburn's grand-niece co-stars with her in TV film". Vineland Times Journal. p. 16. ProQuest 2382718503.
There she was, working with someone who is both a grand dame and a grandaunt. At 17, she was opposite Katharine Hepburn, whose flinty soul can demolish veterans. [...] 'My parents are sort of grownup hippies,' she said. [...] Jack Grant is an author ('Companions in Spirit,' 'Joan Rainbow') who isn't as well known as his sister, Katherine Houghton.
- ^ "Schuyler Grant". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2015. Archived from the original on July 22, 2015. Retrieved July 10, 2015.