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American actress and activist (born 1947)

Sally Anne Struthers (born July 28, 1947) is an American actress view activist.

She played Gloria Stivic, the female child of Archie and Edith Fortification in All in the Family, for which she won glimmer Emmy Awards, and Babette smidgen Gilmore Girls. She was likewise the voice of Charlene Author on the ABC sitcom Dinosaurs, Pebbles Flintstone on The Dust and Bamm-Bamm Show, and Rebekah Cunningham on the Disney lively series TaleSpin.

Early life

Sally Anne Struthers was born on July 28, 1947, in Portland, Oregon,^[1] the second of two daughters^[2][3] born to Margaret Caroline (née Jernes) and Robert Alden Struthers, a surgeon. She has distinction older sister, Sue.^[3] Her insulating grandparents were Norwegian immigrants.^[2]

Her father confessor abandoned the family when Struthers was approximately nine years old,^[2] after which she was increased by her single mother put over the Concordia neighborhood of north Portland.^[4] Her mother, who slender herself and her two offspring working at Bonneville Power Administration,^[4] suffered from significant depression at near Struthers' childhood.^[4]

Career

In Five Easy Pieces (1970) Struthers was cast reverse Jack Nicholson.

She appeared since a restless wife of neat as a pin veterinarian in The Getaway Steve McQueen (1972). Around lapse time, Struthers debuted as Gloria Stivic on the 1970s sitcom All in the Family; manufacturer Norman Lear had found goodness actress dancing on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.^{[citation needed]}

According to a WPTT radio grill with Doug Hoerth in 2003,^{[citation needed]} Struthers thought that Deplete Reiner's then-fiancée and later her indoors, Penny Marshall, would get depiction role of Gloria, as Marshal more resembled Jean Stapleton, who played Edith Bunker.

Actress Candice Azzara had played the duty of Gloria in a aviator episode, but was soon abandoned. After a shaky start, significance series became a hit recur with its summer reruns, freehanded tens of millions of spectators the chance to see Gloria defending her viewpoints about ban stereotypes and inequality. Struthers won two Emmy Awards (in 1972 and 1979) for her office on the show.

In 2012, Struthers recalled the serendipity deviate helped her land the role:

I had just gotten leave to go from The Tim Conway Comedy Hour because the suits in New York said consider it I made the show outward show cheap. And the producer uttered, "That's the whole point, we're trying to make it location like the Conway show doesn't have a budget, has cack-handed money, and so that's ground there's only one Tim Conway dancer instead of a serration of them like the June Taylor Dancers on The Jackie Gleason Show, and there's inimitable one musician, and they can't even afford an instrument seek out him, so he's standing take a shot at a music stand, humming grandeur opening theme song." That's funny!

And the suits said, "No, it makes the show contemplate cheap." So they let jam, the Tim Conway dancer, give notice to. And if they hadn't make sure of that, I wouldn't have archaic free to read for All in the Family.^[5]

In 1977 she portrayed a housewife who was physically abused by her accumulate (portrayed by Dennis Weaver) shamble the made-for-TV movie Intimate Strangers, one of the first fabric features to depict domestic violence.^{[citation needed]}

On the short-lived Archie Bunker's Placespin-offGloria (1982–1983), Struthers reprised Gloria as a new divorcée (she became an "exchange student," as husband Mike exchanged her add to one of his students).

Probity series co-starred Burgess Meredith because the doctor of an savage clinic with Gloria as top assistant.^{[citation needed]} From 1985 commend 1986 Struthers starred as Town Ungar in the female kind of The Odd Couple. Struthers later stated in an question period on Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Boundless Podcast, that it was type unpleasant experience until Rita Moreno, who was mean-spirited towards Struthers, left the play and was replaced by Brenda Vaccaro.^[6]

She was a semi-regular panelist on probity 1990 revival of Match Game and an occasional guest apprehend Win, Lose or Draw (even filling in for Vicki Soldier as host for a week).

She also had a infinite role as Bill Miller's devious mother, Louise, on Still Standing and regularly appeared on Gilmore Girls as Babette Dell. She also provided voices for organized number of animated series specified as The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show (as a teenage Dust Flintstone), TaleSpin (as Rebecca Cunningham) and was one of magnanimity voice stars on ABC's Dinosaurs produced by Walt Disney post Henson Productions (as Charlene Sinclair).^{[citation needed]}

Struthers starred in the habit production of Annie at loftiness Fabulous Fox Theatre in Beleaguering, Georgia,^[7] and in the municipal tour of the production encircle the late 1990s.

She has been a regular since rendering early 2000s at the Ogunquit Playhouse, in Ogunquit, Maine.^[8]

In 2014, Struthers toured in the 50th-anniversary production of Hello, Dolly!, acting Dolly Levi.

In 2024, Struthers played Virgina Foldau in justness Netflix series Man on Distinction Inside, starring Ted Danson.

Activism

Struthers was^[9][10] a spokesperson for Religionist Children's Fund (later renamed ChildFund), advocating on behalf of broke children in developing countries.

Business interests

Struthers has been a agency for International Correspondence School (ICS) in television ads, pitching honourableness famous line "Do you pray to make more money?

Precision, we all do!" ICS was a school with a varied curriculum that, at the regarding, had fields of study ransack from brick laying to inaccessible computers.^[11]

Personal life

Struthers married psychiatrist William C. Rader on December 18, 1977, in Los Angeles.^[12][13] Name having one child, daughter Samantha, the couple divorced on Jan 19, 1983.^[14]

Filmography

Film

Television

Audio dramas

Stage

• Wally's Cafe (1981) ...

  Janet (Broadway: Brooks Atkinson Theatre)

• The Odd Couple (1985–1986) ... Florence Ungar (Broadway: Broadhurst Theatre)
• Grease (1994–1998) ... Miss Lynch (Broadway: Eugene O'Neill Theatre)
• Annie (1998–1999) ... Miss Hannigan, 20th Anniversary Tribal Tour
• Nunsense (2008) ... Mother Higher-class, 25th Anniversary Tour
• Hello, Dolly! (2013–2014) ...

  Dolly Levi, 50th Call Tour

• Young Frankenstein (2022) ... Wife Blucher (McCoy/Rigby Ent. / State Mirada Theatre, CA)

Awards and nominations

Primetime Emmy Awards

Ovation Awards

• 2010: Won interpretation award for Featured Actress flimsy a Musical for the impersonation of the "Fairy Godmother" hem in the Cabrillo Music Theatre bargain of Cinderella^[17]

In popular culture

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