Andrea Feldman

(New York Magazine). She named her son after Michael Landon, her mentor on Little House. The most striking performance - in large part non-performance - comes from the late Andrea Feldman as the flat-voiced, freaked-out daughter, a mass of psychotic confusion, infantile and heart-breaking. She is the older half-sister of Roseanne star Sara Gilbert. She was noted for her exhibitionist nature and heavy dependence on drugs, particularly amphetamines. Gilbert is married to Bruce Boxleitner. Feldman’s suicide preceded the release of Heat, in which she had a significant role, by only three weeks. As a former child actor, she is best known for her role of Laura Ingalls on the television series Little House on the Prairie and for her term as president of the Screen Actors Guild which she won after a bitter election with Valerie Harper.

Urban legend often mis-attributes the location of Feldman’s suicide to the Hotel Chelsea. Melissa Ellen Gilbert (born May 8, 1964) is an American actress. Feldman was holding a can of Coke in one hand and a rosary in the other when she jumped from the fourteenth floor of 51 Fifth Avenue & 12th St, NYC. In August of 1972, Andrea summoned several ex-boyfriends, including poet Jim Carroll, to the home of her parents so that they would be witness to her 'final starring role'; her suicide. Feldman was heavily involved in the Exploding Plastic Inevitable shows curated by Andy Warhol at which she would perform her famous whip-dance.

A native New Yorker, she starred in several of Warhol’s underground movies before committing suicide in 1972. Andrea Feldman (also known as Andrea ‘Whips’ Feldman) (1948- 8 August 1972) was an actor and Warhol superstar. Heat (1972). Trash (1970).

Four Stars (1967) aka 24 Hour Movie.