lengths as the plotline dictated. Mattson would exit in early 2015 but returned once again in May 2016.

Film and primetime television

Mattson began acting at age seven.

She made her screen debut in Namu, the Killer Whale (1966). She co-starred in Bonnie's Kids (1973) when she was only 15, including appearing topless, as well as Candy Stripe Nurses (1974) and Return to Macon County