The actress, who played Nellie Oleson on the beloved NBC historical drama series, knew she wasn’t right for the original parts she auditioned for—Laura and Mary Ingalls (eventually played by Melissa Gilbert and Melissa Sue Anderson)—but when it came to rich mean girl Nellie, she knew exactly what to do.
She was shocked when got a call to go back to Paramount to read for Little House yet again. "And I'm sitting there with my dad, sitting on stairs [because] there's no seats left at the audition,” she added. “And I start reading, and I'm like, 'Wait, what?' And I turned to my father, and I said, 'This is not a normal part. This girl's a total... she's a b----!’ My father goes, 'Wait, what?' And I start reading it for him. He's dying while I'm reading the monologue.”
When Arngrim finally faced producers, she recited Nellie’s monologue just like she did for her father.
Arngrim repeated a scene in which Nellie brags about all of the sets of dishes her wealthy family owned. When she left the audition room, she could hear Landon and the other producers "still laughing behind the door."
Alison Arngrim Was Hired for the Part That Day
‘They’re like, ‘fabulous,’” she said of the producers’ final words to her as she left the audition.
Alison Arngrim Was Born to Play Nellie Oleson
Arngrim played the villainous Nellie for seven seasons on Little House on the Prairie in the 1970s into the early ‘80s. She later found herself typecast when auditioning for roles as loveable or "cute sexy” girls in the 1980s.
While she’ll always be the character fans loved to hate, Arngrim has embraced her signature role as Nellie. She even has a comedy act and wrote a memoir, fittingly titled Confessions of a Prairie B----.
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