Nelly Olson, the little pest from Little House on the Prairie, the TV series, arrives near Perpignan

Fans of the series have not forgotten Nelly Oleson. A tall jig with blonde braids, haughty, persecuting the adorable Laura Ingalls, she was essential to the casting of Little House on the Prairie, a bucolic TV series first broadcast in 1974. And rebroadcast many times since.

In town Nellie Oleson is Alison Arngrim and said in her biography The Little Bitch on the Prairiepublished in 2011, that this series was like therapy for her. She admitted in this biography to having been raped by her brother in the heart of a “childhood nightmare”. “As unstable as my parents may have been, they still had the reflex to build up savings for me. So I received my full salary when I was able to release it, when I turned 18“, assured the interpreter of Nellie Oleson to Gala magazine, in July 2024.

The American, born in 1962 in New York, is now starring in a show entitled “Destination 80’s” scheduled in Port-Vendres and presented to the press this Tuesday, January 21. Patrick Loubatière shares this poster. A show in French performed almost exclusively on stages in small French towns. A show where she doesn’t forget a few nods to Nellie Oleson. Alison Arngrim has since 1981, and the end of Little House on the Prairieled a career as an actress in cinema and theater, mainly in the USA and France.