Melissa Francis
TV Show Host
A Financial news reporter on the Fox Business and former child actress who played Cassandra Cooper Ingalls on Little House on the Prairie.
She became the executive editor of The Harvard College Economist magazine and graduated from Harvard in 1995.
She was captain of the Harvard polo team.
Her overbearing mother was the subject of her book Diary of a Stage Mother's Daughter: A Memoir.
She appeared with Ed Begley Jr. on the TV series St. Elsewhere in 1986.