Question: What actress plays "Frankie" in an American sitcom about a middle-class family living in Indiana facing the day-to-day struggles of home life, work, and raising children?

Context articles: Grandparents Plus
Embedded In Baghdad
Patricia Heaton
List of Love Thy Neighbor episodes
Saplings
List of The Middle characters
A Grande Família
The Middle (TV series)
The Woodentops (TV series)
Family Matters

Grandparents Plus is a national charity for England and Wales that supports and campaigns on behalf of the 200,000 grandparents, siblings, aunts, uncles and other relatives who are raising children in Britain today because their parents cannot look after them.
 This is often because of very difficult family circumstances, including parental death, disability, serious illness, drug or alcohol abuse, imprisonment or domestic violence.
 Relatives who are raising children from within the wider family are known as kinship carers.
Embedded In Baghdad is a 2003 documentary created by Alexandre Trudeau for the CTV Television Program W-FIVE.
 It documents Trudeau's experience before, during, and after the US Bombing Campaign with the A-Saadi family, a middle-class family living in Baghdad.
Patricia Helen Heaton (born March 4, 1958) is an American actress and model.
 She is known for portraying Debra Barone on the CBS sitcom "Everybody Loves Raymond" from 1996 to 2005, and as Frances "Frankie" Heck on the ABC sitcom "The Middle" (2009–present).
"Love Thy Neighbor" is American sitcom television series on the Oprah Winfrey Network that debuted on May 29, 2013 at 9/8c.
 "Love Thy Neighbor" is a half-hour sitcom revolving around diner owner Hattie Mae Love and her middle-class family's daily triumphs and struggles.
 The focal point of the show is a location known as the Love Train Diner, an old locomotive car converted to a diner that serves up all of Hattie Mae's old recipes.
 It is the neighborhood hang out spot that, along with great food, serves up a whole lot of fun and offers advice to its customers in all walks of life.
 The series is written, directed and produced by Tyler Perry.
Although Saplings (1945) is generally regarded as one of Noel Streatfeild's novels for adults, it is at least partially told from the perspective of four children - Laurel, Tony, Tuesday, and Kim, as well as from the perspective of their mother, Lena.
 The Wiltshires are an idyllic middle-class family living in the comforts of Regent's Park in pre-Second World War London.
"The Middle" is an American sitcom about a working-class family living in Indiana and facing the day-to-day struggles of home life, work, and raising children.
 "The Middle" premiered September 30, 2009, on the ABC network and is airing its eighth season as of 201617.
 It features" Everybody Loves Raymond" star Patricia Heaton and "Scrubs" star Neil Flynn.
A Grande Família (English: "The Big Family") is a Brazilian television sitcom created by Oduvaldo Vianna Filho and Armando Costa which originally aired on Rede Globo from March 29, 2001 to September 11, 2014.
 The show tells the story of a typical middle-class family living in a suburb neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro.
 It is a remake of a namesake's series that was aired in Brazil in the 70's.
The Middle is an American sitcom about a middle-class family living in Indiana facing the day-to-day struggles of home life, work, and raising children.
 The show premiered September 30, 2009, on the ABC network and features "Everybody Loves Raymond" actress Patricia Heaton and "Scrubs" actor Neil Flynn.
 "The Middle" was created by former "Roseanne" and "Murphy Brown" writers Eileen Heisler and DeAnn Heline of Blackie and Blondie Productions.
 The show is produced by Warner Bros.
 Television and Blackie and Blondie Productions.
 "The Middle" has been praised by television critics and earned numerous award nominations.
The Woodentops is a children's television series first shown on BBC Television in 1955.
 Created by Freda Lingstrom and Maria Bird, it featured on the Friday edition of "Watch with Mother".
 The main characters are the members of a middle-class family living on a farm.
 The aim of the programme was to teach pre-school children about family life.
Family Matters is an American sitcom which originated on ABC from September 22, 1989 to May 9, 1997, before moving to CBS from September 19, 1997 to July 17, 1998.
 A spin-off of "Perfect Strangers," the series revolves around the Winslow family, a middle-class African American family living in Chicago, Illinois.
 Midway through the first season, the show introduced the Winslows' nerdy neighbor Steve Urkel (Jaleel White), who quickly became its breakout character and eventually the show's main character.
 Having run for nine seasons, "Family Matters" became the second longest-running non-animated US sitcom with a predominantly African American cast, behind only "The Jeffersons" (11).
 Having aired 215 episodes, "Family Matters" is ranked third, behind only "Tyler Perry's House of Payne" (254), and "The Jeffersons" (253).