Melissa Francis

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Broadcast journalist Melissa Francis is an anchor on Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network, and a regular contributor on financial, economic and political issues on shows such as The Five, Outnumbered, Happening Now and America’s Newsroom, among others. As an actress, she appeared in numerous motion pictures, television series and more than a hundred television commercials, and is best known for her role as Michael Landon’s daughter, Cassandra Cooper Ingalls, on Little House on the Prairie. She earned a bachelor’s in economics from Harvard University and lives in Manhattan with her husband and their three children.