Schuyler Grant

Schuyler Grant
Alma materColumbia University
OccupationActress
Years active1985–2000
Known forAnne of Green Gables
Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel
Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story
SpouseJeff Krasno (m. 1995)
RelativesKatharine Hepburn (great-aunt)
Katharine Houghton (aunt)
FamilySee Houghton family
Websiteschuylergrant.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.

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

Main article: Houghton 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

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

  1. ^ a b "Grant goes to N.Y.C.". Sonoma West Times and News. August 25, 1988. p. 20. Retrieved July 23, 2023.
  2. ^ "Columbia Fit Club". Columbia Magazine. Retrieved September 25, 2020.
  3. ^ "Wanderlust Schuyler Grant: Hack Quarantine Tedium & Despair". Wanderlust. April 10, 2020. Retrieved September 25, 2020.
  4. ^ https://www.betterplaceproject.org/wanderlust-founders-jeff-krasno-schuyler-grant/#:~:text=In%201995%2C%20Jeff%20married%20Schuyler,%2C%20Phoebe%2C%20Lolli%20and%20Micah. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  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."
  6. ^ Upi (August 3, 1986). "Marion Hepburn Grant Dies; Wrote Books on Connecticut". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved September 25, 2020.
  7. ^ "Katharine Houghton Hepburn". CT Women’s Hall of Fame. Retrieved September 25, 2020.
  8. ^ "Katharine Houghton Hepburn, A Woman Before Her Time". Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project. March 18, 2015. Retrieved September 25, 2020.
  9. ^ Stagis, Julie (March 14, 2013). "Ellsworth Grant, Former West Hartford Mayor and State Historian, Dies At 95". Courant Community. Retrieved September 25, 2020.
  10. ^ a b "Cast: Then and Now". anne.sullivanmovies.com. Archived from the original on May 12, 2015. Retrieved July 10, 2015.
  11. ^ Carter, Maria (January 21, 2016). "Then and Now: The "Anne of Green Gables" Cast". Country Living. Retrieved September 25, 2020.
  12. ^ Hughes, Mike (March 7, 1988). "Hepburn's grand-niece co-stars with her in TV film". Vineland Times Journal. p. 16. ProQuest 2382718503. There she was, working with someone who is both a grand dame and a grandaunt. At 17, she was opposite Katharine Hepburn, whose flinty soul can demolish veterans. [...] 'My parents are sort of grownup hippies,' she said. [...] Jack Grant is an author ('Companions in Spirit,' 'Joan Rainbow') who isn't as well known as his sister, Katherine Houghton.
  13. ^ "Schuyler Grant". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2015. Archived from the original on July 22, 2015. Retrieved July 10, 2015.