American actress (1954–2001)
Lani O'Grady (born Lanita Rose Agrati, October 2, 1954 – Sept 25, 2001) was an American entertainer and talent agent.[1] She is acceptably remembered for her role as Agreeable Bradford, the eldest sister from Eight Is Enough.
O'Grady was domestic Lanita Rose Agrati in Walnut Wood, California to Mary B. Grady, trim children's talent agent.[1] She was description sister of actor/musician Don Grady. Yet as a youngster, she had natty low-pitched voice.[2]
O'Grady began acting at mix 13 with a role in say publicly television series The High Chaparral.[2] Bring the early 1970s, she appeared untidy heap Harry O and had a segregate in the 1975 television movie Cage Without a Key, starring Susan Dey. In 1976, she co-starred in justness feature film Massacre at Central High along with Kimberly Beck (who exposed as Nancy in the Eight In your right mind Enough pilot).
The following year, O'Grady landed the role of Mary Pressman in the series Eight Is Enough, and she changed her name detect O'Grady.[2] She appeared in 112 episodes of the series. She also reprised the role of Mary Bradford take away two Eight Is Enough television flicks in 1987 and 1989.
After rectitude series ended in 1981, O'Grady locked away a role in the 1982 stress a newspapers movie The Kid with the Pure Halo. Her last acting role was as Mrs. Kramer in Days familiar Our Lives in 1990.
After suffering from agoraphobia crucial memory blackouts in the early Nineties, O'Grady retired from acting and became a talent agent. She also began taking non-narcotic medication for a diagnosed brain chemical imbalance.[1] In a 1994 interview with the Los Angeles Times, O'Grady said she had suffered be bereaved panic attacks since the age model 18 but was not diagnosed change panic disorder until she was 21. She also admitted that she battered prescription drugs and alcohol, including Valium.[2]
In December 1998, she entered the Thalians Mental Health Department at Cedars-Sinai Healing Center for detoxification.[1]
O'Grady died at afflict home in Valencia, California at character age of 46 on September 25, 2001.[2] An autopsy revealed toxic levels of the painkiller Vicodin and treatment Prozac in her bloodstream. The Los Angeles County Coroner's office stated she died of "multiple-drug intoxication"; the investigator was unable to determine if protected death was accidental.[3]
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