Melissa Gilbert as Laura Ingalls in The Little House on the Prairie Laura Ingalls is played the beautiful and talented Melissa Gilbert.  Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote a book called "Little House on the Prairie" Published in 1935.  The Television series Little House on the Prairie was written by Laura Ingalls Wilder.  Although there are many facts that Laura Ingalls Wilder may have used from her childhood memories living on the Prairie, however the Little House stories are viewed more as fiction and are not considered an autobiography.  Melissa Gilbert named her second son after Michael Landon a lifelong friend.  Melissa Gilbert was the President of the Screen Actors Guild for two terms and later married Bruce Boxleitner who played her husband on Babylon 5.  Melissa Gilbert got her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1998.