Laurie Walters
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Laurie Walters (born January 8, 1947 in San Francisco, California) is a former television actress, arguably best known for playing Joanie Bradford on the television "dramedy" Eight Is Enough, which aired from 1977 until 1981 on ABC. Walters was, by several years, the oldest actor of the eight actors playing the Bradford children, even though her character, Joanie Bradford, was the third-oldest child in the family. Additionally, she was 3 months older than, Betty Buckley, (born July 3, 1947), the actor who played her series stepmother.
Walter's first "on camera" role was that of Sheila Grove in the 1973 movie The Harrad Experiment.
Walters made guest appearances on a number of other television series through the 1980s, such as Cheers and Highway to Heaven, as well as on two Eight Is Enough reunion specials, but she has not acted on television since 1993.
According to the Internet Movie Database, Walters, as of 1999, lived in Los Angeles, where she worked as an environmentalist. More recently, she has directed theater productions in Ojai, California under her married name Laurie Walters Slade. [1]
