Danielle Chuchran

Real Name :  Danielle Ryan Chuchran
Born            :  June 9, 1993 Upland, California, U.S.
Occupation  :  Actress

Personal Life

Danielle Ryan Chuchran born June 9, 1993 is an American actress, having appeared in films since 2001. She played the role of Mary Ingalls in Little House on the Prairie and starred in the 2007 film The Wild Stallion (formerly Last of the Mustangs).  Chuchran was born in Upland, California but moved to Utah as an infant. At the age of five, she decided she wanted to be in a Hawaiian Tropic beauty pageant; she placed first in the pageant and won the Most Photogenic, Best Hair, and Best Personality categories as well.

After landing several print ads, Chuchran signed with an agent. She landed her first two auditions and filmed two movies for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, one of which still plays at the Salt Lake Visitors Center. At the age of eight she co-starred in Little Secrets, a feature film with Vivica A. Fox, Evan Rachel Wood and Michael Angarano. Shortly thereafter she landed the role of Thing 1 in The Cat in the Hat feature. In 2007 she also starred as one of the children in Saving Sarah Cain as Anna Mae Cottrell.  Additional credits include the HBO movie Shot in the Heart and episodes of several TV series, among them Crossing Jordan, Girlfriends, Days of Our Lives and The District. On stage she appeared in the production of Elvis and Juliet, written by Mary Willard and directed by Ted Lange. She also appeared on The Bold And The Beautiful as a young Stephanie Forrester in flashbacks.