Gilbert served as the President of the Screen Actors Guild from 2001 to 2005.
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In 2014, she wrote a short story for children, called Daisy and Josephine as well as My Prairie Cookbook: Memories and Frontier Food from My Little House to Yours.
The actress says Stone wrote the audition scene for her in order to get revenge after she had embarrassed him at a nightclub.
In 2016, Gilbert ran for U.
In 2009, her autobiography Prairie Tale: A Memoir, was released.