Laura From 'Knots Landing' Left Acting To Help People – At 75 She's a Blessed Grandparent With Husband of 44 Years

• Laura from "Knots Landing" found her happiness far away from Hollywood!
• Constance McCashin chose to help people instead of going after on-screen popularity.
• Now she is a doting grandmother who shares photos of her husband of 44 years and their lovely grandchildren.

On June 18, 1947, Constance McCashin was welcomed by her parents in Chicago, Illinois. When she was only five, she initially found some fame when appearing on "The Howdy Doody Show," but her parents stopped that in its tracks because they wanted her to have a normal childhood.

Later in life, a well-known acting teacher from New York suggested that McCashin thinks about taking therapy because she couldn't bring the depths of her life experiences into her work. The star recalled how distrusting and guarded she was.

Her issue was so bad that she couldn't show anger or cry in a scene, and luckily, she took the teacher's advice, and her work blew up! When she landed in Hollywood, she spent much time working in series, television movies, pilots, and commercials.

The actress played Laura Avery in 1979's "Knots Landing" for nine years, and in 1987 on the 200th episode, her character was killed off by a brain tumor. McCashin fought back by refusing to have her character's footage released in two reunion specials, and Avery had to be blurred.

In 1979, she starred in "The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan" and later in 1999's "The Out-of-Towners," plus she also got to be on two seasons of "Brooklyn Bridge." Things were different for McCashin after she left Hollywood to focus on helping people and her family.

How Did McCashin's Life Change after the Death of Laura in "Knots Landing?"

In May 2023, McCashin was already 75, turning 76 the following month. On October 15, 1978, the actress married the love of her life, Sam Weisman, and the pair - who would be married for 45 years in 2023 - welcomed two children during their relationship.

Sam was born in 1947 in Binghamton, New York, before studying at Deerfield Academy and Yale University. While in college, he started directing and acting in plays, and after graduation, he taught English at a high school level.

He then went back to studying at Brandeis University and earned a Master's degree in Fine Arts for acting and directing at Brandeis University. McCashin's husband started as an actor in New York, then relocated to Los Angeles, where he found a role in "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman."

In October 2022, McCashin celebrated her and her husband's 44th wedding anniversary with a Twitter post. The post included a throwback photo of her and Sam smiling as they looked at the camera, and she revealed that all those years back, an Irish Catholic woman married a Jewish boy.

In July 2022, she showed off her only daughter in a Twitter picture taken 27 years ago. On May 1, 2023, the star revealed that she was a grandmother by sharing a social media image of her grandchild.

According to another Twitter post, her grandchild was born in early February 2023. In December 2022, the actress uploaded a side-by-side image of her when she was 31 and her 19-month-old grandson, Hardy.

She revealed that her son, Daniel Weisman, had compared the pair because he thought they looked alike, but McCashin wasn't convinced! One fan sided with Daniel and noted that the celebrity and her grandson "certainly do look alike," while someone else wrote:

"I can see that a little in the smile."

In May 2020, the actress shared a Twitter image showing off her now-adult children, whom she loved with all her heart. The photo showed Daniel standing in a field with his sister, Marguerite "Meg" Weisman, smiling with his arm around her, with McCashin captioning it:

"Meg & Daniel….how Blessed am I!"

Daniel was born in California on May 1, 1982, and followed in his parents' career footsteps by becoming an actor. In 1990 he appeared in "Deadly Dancer," in 2001, he was in "What's the Worst That Could Happen?" and in 2007, he was featured in "Universal Remote."

Besides acting, McCashin's son also ran a consulting, management, and branding business called Elitaste, Inc, which once placed number 25 on the top 50 music blogs of VIBE Magazine's list. He also managed Wale, a rapper, and Mike Posner, a producer, songwriter, and singer.

Constance Chose Selfless Work Instead of Fame

McCashin has since retired from acting and, instead, chose selfless work where the focus was to help others. According to her IMDb account, she decided to become a therapist in West Newton, Massachusetts, instead of raking money in as an actress.

Besides that, the former actress was also on the National Advisory Board of the National Down Syndrome Society. Sam's wife was verified as a clinical social worker or a therapist on the Psychology Today website.

The former actress [Constance McCashin] had worked with people in acting, creative arts, voice acting, dance, writing, and visual arts.

On her profile, McCashin revealed that she'd spent twelve years working in her new field at a college counseling center. The celebrity shared how the post allowed her to work with students.

The learners she worked with struggled in their teenage years and early twenties with anxiety, depression, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), attention deficit disorder (ADD), and substance abuse.

The mother of two also dealt with the issues of students having to live away from home, staying with roommates, realizing their sexual identities, academic strain, and more. McCashin said that as someone who'd once worked as an actress, she'd helped people in similar industries.

The former actress had worked with people in acting, creative arts, voice acting, dance, writing, and visual arts. She believed that having well-balanced therapeutic skills and a strong background in the arts assisted in what she called "an unusual" yet, "successful clinical approach."

Since leaving Hollywood and taking on a completely different career path, McCashin rarely appeared at public events as an actress. If the famous New York teacher or the star's former therapist had discovered that her passion wasn't acting but holding space for people, she might have found her true calling even sooner.

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