Trivia

In Florida doing professional theater. (July 2005)

She was friends with fellow Little House actors Katherine MacGregor, Richard Bull, and Dabbs Greer until their deaths.

The TV star always knew she was destined to become an actress, telling the Cleveland Plain Dealer in 1975 that she was "always a child living in the world of pretend.

She began acting locally at age 14 in Cleveland area theatrical productions.

She was once married to Oscar-winning producer John Peverall and had one child with him.

She moved west in the early 1970s to further her acting career and landed a role opposite Jon Voight in a touring production of A Streetcar Named Desire.

She graduated from Berea High School in 1963, acted at the Cleveland Play House and in regional theater, then came to Los Angele.

Hersha was considered to play Caroline Ingalls in Little House on the Prairie, but lost out to Karen Grassle. Later, in 1976 episode "Journey in the Spring", Paraday played Eliza Anne Ingalls, Charles' sister-in-law. Then, in 1977, she was given the role of Alice Garvey in Little House on the Prairie, which she played until 1980 when her character was killed in a fire accidentally set by Albert Ingalls.

After Little House on the Prairie, she made only rare appearances in television, including Kenan & Kel.

Her educational path led her to Berea High School, where her acting pursuits took root.