<P> Bartlett studied acting with Lee Strasberg, and first got her start in television playing the heroine "Vanessa Dale Raven" on the soap opera Love of Life from 1955 to 1959, replacing actress Peggy McCay . She also had a previous role on the program, in which briefly she played the character of Ellie Crown, a role which was played for several years by Hildy Parks . She then moved on to nighttime roles in the 1960s . </P> <P> Her most widely known role was as Ellen Craig on St. Elsewhere . Initially an infrequently recurring character, she took on greater prominence in the 1984--1985 season when the storyline included Ellen and Mark's marital problems . The storyline deepened in the next season when their son was killed and they had to raise their granddaughter . Bartlett won back - to - back Emmys, and was made a contract player . Further difficult material included Ellen and Mark's divorce and slow reconciliation following the loss of their granddaughter in a custody dispute with her birth mother . </P> <P> For many years Bartlett accepted only small guest appearances on such programs as Gunsmoke, The Rockford Files, and The Waltons, as well as a recurring role as Grace Snider Edwards on Little House on the Prairie from 1974 to 1977 . Her acting career picked up considerably in the 1980s, including the miniseries V and North and South: Book II . </P> <P> Bartlett and husband William Daniels made Emmy Awards history in 1986 when they became just the second real - life married couple to win acting awards on the same night . Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne first accomplished the feat in 1965 . Bartlett and Daniels won for their portrayals of Dr. Mark and Mrs. Ellen Craig on the TV series St. Elsewhere . They later acted together again when she played a college dean who employed her husband's character, in a season of Daniels's ABC series Boy Meets World, and their characters later married . </P>

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