She had a supporting role on the Little House on the Prairie television series, in which her father, Michael Landon, played the lead.

Matthews portrayed schoolteacher Etta Plum on Little House on the Prairie from 1982 to 1984.

She also made small guest appearances in four other episodes of Little House between 1975 and 1981.

Her eldest daughter, born in 1993, Rachel Matthews, is also an actress,[5] with her film debut in Happy Death Day, directed by her uncle Christopher.

[6] Landon obtained a BA in psychology and an MA in clinical psychology from Pepperdine University and a Ph.D. in marriage and family therapy from the California Graduate Institute.