Alison Arngrim, best known to viewers world-wide for her portrayal of the incredibly nasty "Nellie Oleson" on the much loved, long running hit television series Little House On The Prairie, continues to amuse audiences through her many film, television and stage appearances. An original founder of PROTECT, she is also a veteran activist and lobbyist on child protection issues, lending detailed and technical legislative and policy analysis to PROTECT.

In addition to her seven years on Little House, Alison guested on such cult classics as: The Love Boat, Fantasy Island and the NBC movie of the week, I Married Wyatt Earp, starring Marie Osmond. She mocked her own status as an "ex-child star" on Jay Leno's Tonight Show, during their month long parody, "Hollywood Survivor" and continues to be a frequent interview subject on everything from A&E, E! Entertainment, and VH-1, to CNN and the Travel Channel.

Alison's stage work includes, Sirena: Queen of the Tango, Butterflies Are Free, Hidden In The Laughter, Dear Brutus, The Wool Gatherer, Cry Of Players, the French bedroom farce, In One Bed And Out The Other, and Michael Kearns' AIDS/US II.

As a stand-up comedian, Alison has headlined at nightclubs such as the Laugh Factory, the Comedy Store and the Improv in Los Angeles; numerous comedy clubs all across the United States and Canada, and recently launched her one-woman-show Confessions of a Prairie Bitch at Club Fez in New York.

In the 1986 when her friend and "Little House husband" co-star, Steve Tracy, passed away due to complications of HIV/AIDS, Alison immediately began volunteering at AIDS Project Los Angeles. Her duties have ranged from working on the Southern California AIDS Hotline and the APLA food bank, (APLA's Necessities of Life Program) to chairing the steering committee of the volunteer speakers bureau and developing "Safer Sex" workshops. She has provided AIDS education to doctors, nurses, prison inmates, service clubs, churches, department stores, and schools.

She has written articles for the magazines Frontiers and Designers West, produced and hosted an HIV prevention video program for the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches (UFMCC), and spent seven years hosting the APLA educational cable television show, AIDS Vision.

She was the first woman to receive the "Friend in Deed" award at APLA, she received the "Celebration of Life" Award from South Bay Friends of Aid for AIDS, and in 1992, Joel Wachs presented Alison with a resolution by the Los Angeles City Council commending her on her work on behalf of people living with HIV and AIDS.

From 1989 through 1993 she served as Program Manager at Tuesday's Child, an organization assisting children and families affected by HIV and AIDS. Since 1989 she has served as both hostess and producer for the comedy stage at the AIDS Project Los Angeles Annual Summer Party, (on the backlot of Universal Studios), where through an evening of raucous entertainment, featuring name comedians, she helps to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for people living with HIV.

She continues to serve on the Ambassador Council of AIDS Project Los Angeles and the Board of Trustees of Tuesday's Child. She recently joined the Screen Actors Guild Young Performers Committee, addressing the needs of children working in the entertainment industry.

To get the latest about Alison and her adventures, check out her website at: http://www.hgd.com/alison.