The actress Hersha Paradyknown for her interpretation of Alice Garvey in the famous television series the ingalls family, died at age 78 after suffering from a brain tumor known as a meningioma.
The death of the American artist occurred last wednesday at the home of his son Jonathan Peverall, in Norfolk, Virginia, as he himself confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter.
According to this American medium, Parady’s son had begun to ask donations last month through the GoFundMe platform to cover the high medical costs to care for his motherwho suffered from a meningioma that —according to data from the Mayo Clinic— is the most common tumor that forms on the head y the most common in older women.
Peverall said he hoped the fundraising efforts would “improve” his mother’s “quality of life” and “give her the support” she needed as a result of her illness. On the other hand, she had indicated that the campaign sought “show her that she is not alone in her struggle“.
“This disease robbed her of her strength, her memory, and sadly, her vibrant personality. She was bedridden for a long time. It’s so hard to see my mom, that was once full of life and energy, now struggling with basic daily tasks“, Peverall had written some time ago in an update of his mother’s health on social networks.
Born to Shine: The Hersha Parady Story
Hersha Paradywhose real name was Betty Sandhoffwas born on May 25, 1945 in the city of Berea, in the state of Ohio.
As he recounted in an interview for Cleveland Plain Dealer in 1975, from his first years of life he felt that “she was destined to become an actress“. “I was always a girl who lived in the world of simulation,” she said at the time. And she added: “Even when she was very little, I would rather fantasize than play with dolls“.
After graduating in 1963, moved to los angeles seeking further opportunities in show business, landing the role of Stella opposite Jon Voight in a touring production of A Streetcar Named Desire.
His debut on the small screen was through the series Bearcats!, in a single episode. She later appeared in Mannix, The Waltons, and in a pilot episode for a Gunsmoke spin-off, which was not included in the series. But the actress made the big leap when she found her place in the cast of the ingalls family. That’s where the fame started.
the ingalls family It was a series broadcast on NBC. between 1974 and 1983 which narrated the life of a family group in the Midwest of the United States during the 19th century.
Although she had auditioned for the role of Caroline Ingalls, before Karen Grassle was cast, his first appearance on the show was during the third season, in 1976, as Eliza Ingallsthe sister-in-law of Charles Ingalls of Landon. But in the next installment he had to embody Alice Garvey in a better way for 35 episodesthe character remembered for his tragic death in a fire at the School for the Blind, accidentally caused by Albert Ingalls.
After Los ingalls appeared in movies Raw Courage y The Breakand also participated in some series, such as unsolved mysteries, the second noah y Kenan & Ex.
Parady was married to the producer John Peverallwho shared the 1979 Best Picture Oscar for his work on The Sniper.
