Kami Cotler

Kami Cotler (born June 17, 1965, in Long Beach, California) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as young Elizabeth Walton, which she played in both the 1971 movie The Homecoming: A Christmas Story, and the series The Waltons. She reprised the role in each of the Waltons reunion movies during the 1980s and 1990s. Cotler gave up acting to pursue a career in teaching, although she does appear fairly regularly at Waltons events. One of her first positions was at a school near Schuyler, Virginia, the "real" Waltons Mountain. She is currently a principal at a charter school in Inglewood, is married, and has two children.