Laurie Walters


Laurie Jean Walters Slade is a retired American actress, best known for playing Joanie Bradford on Eight Is Enough, which aired from 1977 until 1981 on ABC.

Career

Walters was, by several years, the oldest of the eight actors playing the Bradford children, even though her character, Joanie Bradford, was the third-oldest child in the family. Walters is six months older than Betty Buckley, who played her character's stepmother. Walters' first screen role was as "Sheila Grove" in 1973's 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.
According to the IMDb, Walters, as of 1999, lived in Los Angeles, where she worked as an environmentalist. 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 currently is in charge of film acquisitions for a subscription-based film service , which distributes collections of critically acclaimed but hard to find independent documentaries and short films.

Filmography

Film

Television