Sally Anne Struthers (born July 28, 1947) is an American actress,
spokeswoman and activist. She played the roles of Gloria Stivic, the
daughter of Archie and Edith Bunker (played by Carroll O'Connor and
Jean Stapleton) on All in the Family, for which she won two Emmy
awards, and Babette on Gilmore Girls. She was the voice of Charlene
Sinclair on the ABC sitcom Dinosaurs and Rebecca Cunningham on the
Disney animated series TaleSpin.Sally Anne Struthers was born on July
28, 1947 in Portland, Oregon, and attended Grant High School. She is
one of two siblings. She has a sister, Sue. Their parents are Margaret
Caroline (née Jernes) and Robert Alden Struthers, a surgeon, who left
the family when Sally was 9 or 10 years old. Her maternal grandparents
were Norwegian immigrants.Struthers moved quickly into stardom between
the late 1960s and early 1970s. In Five Easy Pieces (1970) she was
cast opposite Jack Nicholson in a small yet memorable role. She
appeared as a restless wife of a veterinarian in the 1972 box office
success The Getaway. It was around that time that Struthers achieved
fame as Gloria Stivic on the 1970s sitcom All in the Family. Producer
Norman Lear had found the actress dancing on The Smothers Brothers
Comedy Hour, a counterculture variety show whose writing staff
included Rob Reiner.According to a WPTT radio interview with Doug
Hoerth in 2003, Struthers thought that Reiner's then-fiancée and
later wife, Penny Marshall, would get the role of Gloria, as Marshall
more resembled Jean Stapleton, who played Edith Bunker. Actress
Candice Azzara had played the role of Gloria in a pilot episode, but
was soon dropped. After a shaky start, the series became a hit
beginning with its summer reruns, giving tens of millions of viewers
the chance to see "Gloria" defending her liberal viewpoints about
negative stereotypes and inequality. Struthers won two Emmy Awards (in
1972 and 1979) for her work on the show. In 2012, Struthers recalled
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spokeswoman and activist. She played the roles of Gloria Stivic, the
daughter of Archie and Edith Bunker (played by Carroll O'Connor and
Jean Stapleton) on All in the Family, for which she won two Emmy
awards, and Babette on Gilmore Girls. She was the voice of Charlene
Sinclair on the ABC sitcom Dinosaurs and Rebecca Cunningham on the
Disney animated series TaleSpin.Sally Anne Struthers was born on July
28, 1947 in Portland, Oregon, and attended Grant High School. She is
one of two siblings. She has a sister, Sue. Their parents are Margaret
Caroline (née Jernes) and Robert Alden Struthers, a surgeon, who left
the family when Sally was 9 or 10 years old. Her maternal grandparents
were Norwegian immigrants.Struthers moved quickly into stardom between
the late 1960s and early 1970s. In Five Easy Pieces (1970) she was
cast opposite Jack Nicholson in a small yet memorable role. She
appeared as a restless wife of a veterinarian in the 1972 box office
success The Getaway. It was around that time that Struthers achieved
fame as Gloria Stivic on the 1970s sitcom All in the Family. Producer
Norman Lear had found the actress dancing on The Smothers Brothers
Comedy Hour, a counterculture variety show whose writing staff
included Rob Reiner.According to a WPTT radio interview with Doug
Hoerth in 2003, Struthers thought that Reiner's then-fiancée and
later wife, Penny Marshall, would get the role of Gloria, as Marshall
more resembled Jean Stapleton, who played Edith Bunker. Actress
Candice Azzara had played the role of Gloria in a pilot episode, but
was soon dropped. After a shaky start, the series became a hit
beginning with its summer reruns, giving tens of millions of viewers
the chance to see "Gloria" defending her liberal viewpoints about
negative stereotypes and inequality. Struthers won two Emmy Awards (in
1972 and 1979) for her work on the show. In 2012, Struthers recalled
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