Born in Berea, Ohio, Hersha Parady graduated from Berea High School and eventually headed to Los Angeles where she landed a role in a touring production of A Streetcar Named Desire. She made her onscreen debut in a 1971 episode of Bearcats! It was 1976, in the fourth season of Little House on the Prairie that she landed the role of Alice Garvey alongside Merlin Olsen, who played her husband Jonathan.
Hersha Parady suffered from a brain tumor and passed away at age 78.
