Schuyler Grant

Schuyler DeBarthe Ranson Grant (born April 29, 1970) is an American former actress best known for supporting roles in television, including the popular Anne of Green Gables mini-series.

Schuyler Grant
Born
Schuyler DeBarthe Ranson Grant

(1970-04-29) April 29, 1970
Alma materColumbia University
OccupationActress
Years active1985–2000
Spouse(s)Jeff Krasno (m. 1995)
Parent(s)Jack Grant
Ann Grant
RelativesKatharine Hepburn (great-aunt)
Katherine Houghton (aunt)
FamilySee Houghton family

Education

Grant graduated from Columbia University, where she met her husband, Jeff Krasno, in 1993.[1][2]

Family

Grant is the daughter of Jack Grant and Ann Grant. Her father is the son of Connecticut historian Marion Hepburn, sister of actress Katharine Hepburn, and Ellsworth Strong Grant, a historian and former mayor of West Hartford, Connecticut, who is a direct descendant of Puritan minister Thomas Hooker.[3][4] She has one brother, Jason Grant. Her great-grandmother is the suffragist Katharine Martha Houghton Hepburn, who played a prominent role in the American Birth Control League with Margaret Sanger that would evolve into Planned Parenthood.[5][6]

Notable relatives in the acting world include her aunt Katharine Houghton and her great-aunt Katharine Hepburn.[7][8]

Anne of Green Gables fame

Grant is best known for her work in Anne of Green Gables.[7] The 1985 film, a Canadian production, also starred Richard Farnsworth, Colleen Dewhurst, and Megan Follows in the starring role of Anne Shirley. Grant played Anne's "bosom friend" and closest companion, Diana Barry. Grant reprised her role in the sequel Anne of Avonlea (1987), in which Diana married Fred Wright and had a child, and the trilogy's finale Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story (2000).

Additional roles

Grant also played the role of Camille Hawkins on All My Children. This character had a brief romance with another All My Children character, Tad Martin.[9]

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
1985 Anne of Green Gables Diana Barry TV movie
1987 Anne of Avonlea Diana Barry TV movie
1988 Laura Lansing Slept Here Annette Gomphers TV movie
1991 Law & Order Callie Episode: "Aria"
1998 Wrestling with Alligators Delores
1998 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

  1. "Columbia Fit Club". Columbia Magazine. Retrieved September 25, 2020.
  2. "Wanderlust Schuyler Grant: Hack Quarantine Tedium & Despair". Wanderlust. April 10, 2020. Retrieved September 25, 2020.
  3. Upi (August 3, 1986). "Marion Hepburn Grant Dies; Wrote Books on Connecticut". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved September 25, 2020.
  4. STAGIS, JULIE. "Ellsworth Grant, Former West Hartford Mayor and State Historian, Dies At 95". Courant Community. Retrieved September 25, 2020.
  5. "Katharine Houghton Hepburn". CT Women’s Hall of Fame. Retrieved September 25, 2020.
  6. "Katharine Houghton Hepburn, A Woman Before Her Time". Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project. March 18, 2015. Retrieved September 25, 2020.
  7. "Cast: Then and Now". anne.sullivanmovies.com. Archived from the original on May 12, 2015. Retrieved July 10, 2015.
  8. Carter, Maria (January 21, 2016). "Then and Now: The "Anne of Green Gables" Cast". Country Living. Retrieved September 25, 2020.
  9. "Schuyler Grant". The New York Times. Retrieved July 10, 2015.
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