Elizabeth Hoffman

Elizabeth Hoffman was an American actress whose earliest screen work was a recurring part on Little House on the Prairie from 1980 to 1981. She went on to take a leading role in Frank LaLoggia's supernatural horror film Fear No Evil (1981). In 1983 she played Eleanor Roosevelt in the miniseries The Winds of War, and she took up that part again in War and Remembrance in 1988. In the drama Nuts (1987) she had a supporting part, acting with Barbra Streisand. She then appeared in Monte Hellman's Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out! (1989). Her best known role was Beatrice Reed Ventnor, mother of the sisters in the NBC drama Sisters, which she played from 1991 to 1996. She was Grandma Ruth in Dante's Peak (1997) and Catherine Langford in two episodes of Stargate SG-1, and she guest-starred on shows including Matlock and thirtysomething. Born in Corvallis, Oregon, she died in 2023.