Schuyler Grant

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Education and personal life

Grant is a graduate of Sebastopol, California's 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

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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

Grant 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

At 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

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

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  1. a b "Grant goes to N.Y.C.". Sonoma West Times and News. August 25, 1988. p. 20. Retrieved July 23, 2023.
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  5. "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."
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