Schuyler Grant

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Schuyler Grant
Alma mater Columbia University
OccupationActress
Years active1985–2000
Known for Anne of Green Gables
Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel
Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story
SpouseJeff Krasno (m. 1995)
Relatives Katharine Hepburn (great-aunt)
Katharine Houghton (aunt)
FamilySee Houghton family
Website schuylergrant.com

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.

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Education and personal life

Grant 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

Grant 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

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

YearTitleRoleNotes
1985 Anne of Green Gables Diana BarryTV movie
1987 Anne of Avonlea
1988 Laura Lansing Slept Here Annette Gomphers
1991 Law & Order CallieEpisode: "Aria"
1998Wrestling with AlligatorsDelores
All My Children Camille Hawkins / Joy Hawkins3 episodes
2000 Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story Diana Barry WrightTV movie

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