current events | January 11, 2026

Is Kami Cotler a lesbian?

Kami Cotler is an American actress. She is best known for her role as young Elizabeth Walton, who played in the series The Waltons, the television film The Homecoming: A Christmas Story which inspired it, and several later Waltons reunion productions.

Is Kami Cotler a lesbian?

Kami Cotler has never said to be homosexual, Kami Cotler is happily married to Kim Howard. Cotler reduced her acting roles while she attended the University of California, Berkeley, earning a degree in Social Sciences.

Her first teaching job was at a small rural Virginia school in the Blue Ridge Mountains, much like the fictional one she attended on The Waltons. Cotler returned to California in 2001 and took a position teaching 9th grade at Environmental Charter High School.

In addition to working as an educator, Cotler ran her own boutique travel company and managed a San Francisco cafe. She has reprised her role as the youngest Walton child in each of the Waltons’ reunion movies and she occasionally makes speeches and personal appearances.