Sara Gilbert (born Sara Rebecca Abeles on January 29, 1975 in Santa Monica, California) is an American actress best known for her longtime role as Darlene Conner-Healy from 1988-1997 in the U.S. sitcom Roseanne.

Biography

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Gilbert was born in Los Angeles, California to a Jewish family. Her parents are Barbara Crane and Harold Abeles. She has two older siblings, Melissa Gilbert (of Little House on the Prairie (1974-1983) fame) and Jonathan Gilbert (who played Willie Olsen on Little House on the Prairie, now a NY stock broker), whom her mom adopted with her first husband. Sara Abeles became an actress and in 1984 changed her surname to Gilbert (to gain notoriety off her older sister and brother's Gilbert name) becoming " Sara Gilbert ".

Television Career

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Gilbert decided at a young age that she wanted to be an actress after seeing her older sister Melissa Gilbert star in Little House on the Prairie. The roles she has played tend to reflect her laid back and unthreatening personality. Following appearances in television movies and a commercial for Kool Aid, at the age of thirteen she landed the role of Darlene Conner, the sarcastic middle child, in Roseanne. Sara was a constant cast member during the show's nine-year run from 1988 to 1997, for which she also wrote an episode called Don't Make Me Over. Sara's contribution was considered so important to Roseanne that the show's producers arranged the filming schedule to allow her to study at Yale University while remaining part of the cast. At Yale she majored in art with an emphasis on photography; she graduated with honors in 1997. To coincide with her personal life, Sara wanted her Roseanne character Darlene to come out as a lesbian, although ABC executives were not ready for a lesbian in a prominent role.

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