Bonnie Bartlett

About

Bonnie Bartlett Daniels (born June 20, 1929) is an American retired actress, best known for her television roles, with her career spanning some seven decades, her first major role being on the 1950s daytime drama, Love of Life. Bartlett is known for her role as Grace Snider Edwards on the Michael Landon television series Little House on the Prairie and as Ellen Craig on the medical drama series St. Elsewhere. Her husband, actor William Daniels, played her fictional husband Dr. Mark Craig, and they both won Emmy Awards on the same night in 1986—becoming the first married couple to accomplish the feat since Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in 1965.
In 2026, having been married to her husband since 1951, over 75 years, they have the distinction of currently being the oldest living married couple in Hollywood.

Bartlett was born in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, the daughter of Carrie Archer and Elwin Earl Bartlett, and was raised in Moline, Illinois. Her father had been an actor in stock productions across the country, but he gave up acting because her mother wanted to settle in Wisconsin.
In 1947, Bartlett graduated from Moline High School. Afterward, she attended Northwestern…