Laurie Walters

Walters was born in San Francisco California and was by several years the oldest of the eight actors playing the Bradford children though her character Joanie Bradford was the thirdoldest child in the family Walters is six months older than Betty Buckley born July 3 1947 who played her characters stepmother Walters first screen role was as Sheila Grove in 1973s The Harrad Experiment Walters made guest appearances on a number of other television series through the 1980s such as Cheers and Highway to Heaven as well as on two Eight Is Enough reunion specials but she has not acted on television since 1993 Walters as of 1999 lived in Los Angeles where she worked as an environmentalistcitation needed More recently she has acted in plays in the Southern California area and directed theater productions in Ojai California under her married name Laurie Walters Slade Walters was later in charge of film acquisitions for a subscriptionbased film service called Ironweed Films