Schuyler Grant

Grant is a graduate of Sebastopol, California's Analy High School, class of 1988,^[1] and of Columbia University, where she met her husband, Jeff Krasno, in 1993.^[2][3] They married in 1995 and have three children: Phoebe, Lolli, and Micah Krasno.^[4]

Grant is the daughter of Jack Grant and Ann Grant.^[1] She has one brother, Jason Grant.^[5]

Her paternal grandmother was Connecticut historian Marion Hepburn, sister of actress Katharine Hepburn and daughter of suffragist Katharine Martha Houghton Hepburn, who, with Margaret Sanger, played a prominent role in the American Birth Control League that would evolve into Planned Parenthood.^[6][7][8] Her paternal grandfather was Ellsworth Strong Grant, a historian and former mayor of West Hartford, Connecticut, who was a direct descendant of Puritan minister Thomas Hooker.^[9]

Notable relatives in the acting world include her aunt Katharine Houghton and her great-aunt Katharine Hepburn.^[10][11]

Grant is best known for her work in the Canadian Anne of Green Gables mini-series,^[10] in which she played Diana Barry opposite Megan Follows as Anne Shirley. Grant reprised her role in the sequel Anne of Avonlea (1987), in which Diana married Fred Wright and had a child, as well as the trilogy's finale, Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story (2000).

At age 17, Grant co-starred with her great-aunt Katharine Hepburn in Laura Lansing Slept Here (1988),^[12] and she later played the role of Camille Hawkins on All My Children. This character had a brief romance with another All My Children character, Tad Martin.^[13]