Brenda Buell Vaccaro (born November 18, 1939) is an American stage, television and film actress.

Early life[link]

Vaccaro was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Italian American parents Christine M. (née Pavia) and Mario A. Vaccaro (originally a lawyer), both of whom were pioneers in Italian cuisine.^[1][2][3] She was raised in Texas, where her parents co-founded Mario's Restaurant (a nationally recognized restaurant)^[4] and where Vaccaro graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in Dallas in 1958.^[5] She returned to New York City to study at the Neighborhood Playhouse, and made her Broadway debut in the short-lived 1961 comedy Everybody Loves Opal, for which she won the Theatre World Award.

Career[link]

Vaccaro's Broadway credits include The Affair (1962), Cactus Flower (1965), How Now, Dow Jones (1967), The Goodbye People (1968), the female version of The Odd Couple, (1985), and Jake's Women (1992).^[6] The husky-voiced actress is a three-time Tony Award nominee, for Best Featured Actress in a Play (Cactus Flower), Best Actress in a Musical (Dow Jones), and Best Actress in a Play (The Goodbye People).^[7]

Vaccaro co-starred in the 1969 Dustin Hoffman/Jon Voight film Midnight Cowboy, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. For her performance in the 1975 film adaptation of Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough she gained an Academy Award nomination and won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress. Additional screen credits include Airport '77, Capricorn One, The Pride of Jesse Hallam, Supergirl, The Mirror Has Two Faces, Heart of Midnight, Zorro: The Gay Blade, and House by the Lake aka, Death Weekend.

Vaccaro's many television credits include the title role in the 1976 series Sara, a number of television movies, and a regular role in the short-lived 1984 series Paper Dolls in addition to guest appearances on Banacek, The Fugitive, The Defenders, Coronet Blue, The Name of the Game, Marcus Welby, M.D., McCloud, The Streets of San Francisco, The Love Boat, St. Elsewhere, Murder, She Wrote, The Golden Girls, Columbo, Touched by an Angel, Friends, The King of Queens, and Nip/Tuck. She has been nominated for an Emmy Award three times and won for Best Supporting Actress in Comedy-Variety, Variety or Music for The Shape of Things in 1974. She also starred in a series of commercials for Playtex.

Later she went on to supply the voice for Johnny Bravo's mother Bunny Bravo in the animated cartoon series. She also made a later appearance on The Smurfs as Scruple, an apprentice of Gargamel, opposite Paul Winchell.

Filmography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Brenda Vaccaro at the Internet Broadway Database
• Brenda Vaccaro at the Internet Movie Database

Sally Struthers
Struthers at the Filmex Tribute to Elizabeth Taylor, November 1981
Born	Sally Ann Struthers (1948-07-28) July 28, 1948 (age 63) Portland, Oregon
Occupation	Actress; spokesperson
Years active	1970–present
Known for	All in the Family
Spouse	Dr. William Rader (1977-1983; divorced)

Sally Ann Struthers (born July 28, 1948)^[1] is an American actress and spokeswoman, best known for her roles as Gloria Stivic on All in the Family, for which she won two Emmy awards, and as Babette on Gilmore Girls.

Personal life[link]

Struthers was born in Portland, Oregon, and attended Grant High School. She is the daughter of Margaret Caroline (née Jernes) and Robert Alden Struthers, who was a surgeon.^[2] Her maternal grandparents were Norwegian immigrants.^[3] Struthers married Dr. William C. Rader, a psychiatrist, on December 18, 1977 until their divorce on January 19, 1983. They had one child together, Samantha Struthers Rader.

Career[link]

Struthers (upper-left) in the cast promotional photo of All in the Family, 1976.

Struthers move quickly into stardom between the late 60s and early 70s. In Five Easy Pieces (1970) she was in a nude sex scene with Jack Nicholson, but achieved fame as Gloria Stivic on the 1970s sitcom, All in the Family. Producer Norman Lear found the actress dancing on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, a counterculture variety show whose writing staff included Rob Reiner. According to a WPTT-AM 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 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, word-of-mouth propelled the program to the top of the Nielsen ratings, 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 in All in the Family.

On the short-lived Archie Bunker's Place spin-off Gloria (1982–1983), Struthers reprised Gloria as a new divorcee (she became an "exchange student", when husband Mike exchanged her for one of his students). The series co-starred Burgess Meredith as the doctor of an animal clinic with Gloria as his assistant.

She was a semi-regular panelist on the 1990 revival of Match Game. She also was an occasional celebrity guest on Win, Lose or Draw, even once guest hosting the NBC daytime version. She also had a recurring role as Bill Miller's manipulative mother, Louise, on the CBS sitcom Still Standing and regularly appeared on Gilmore Girls as Babette Dell. Struthers provided voices for a number of animated series such as The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show (as a teenage Pebbles Flintstone), TaleSpin (as Rebecca Cunningham) and was one of the voice stars on ABC's Dinosaurs produced by Walt Disney and Henson Productions (as Charlene Sinclair).

She has been the spokesperson for International Correspondence Schools in television ads. Now called Penn Foster Career School in America, the distance education organization offers degrees by sending lessons directly to individuals' homes. Struthers recently starred in the stage production of "Annie" at the Fabulous Fox Theatre in Atlanta.

Activism[link]

Struthers is also widely known for her work with two organizations that advertised heavily on cable and late-night television. The first of these is the ChildFund International, advocating on behalf of impoverished children in developing countries, mainly in Africa. Her activism has been satirized in episode 19 of the seventh season of Grey's Anatomy, episode 6 of In Living Color, and in the South Park episodes "Starvin' Marvin", and "Starvin' Marvin in Space".

Work[link]

Television credits[link]

• The Tim Conway Comedy Hour (1970)
• The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
• The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show (1971–1972)
• All in the Family (1971–1978)
• Aloha Means Goodbye (1974)
• Hey, I'm Alive (1975)
• The Great Houdini (1976)
• Intimate Strangers (1977)
• Fred Flintstone and Friends (1977–1978)
• My Husband Is Missing (1978)
• ...And Your Name Is Jonah (TV movie; 1979)
• A Gun in the House (1981)
• Gloria (1982–1983)
• Alice in Wonderland (1985)
• 9 to 5 (1986–1988)
• A Deadly Silence (1989)
• Charles In Charge (1989)
• TaleSpin: Plunder & Lightning (1990)
• TaleSpin (1990–1994)
• Tom & Jerry Kids (1990)
• Yo Yogi! (1991)
• Dinosaurs (1991–1994)
• In the Best Interest of the Children (1992)
• Acting Crazy (1994)
• The New Adventures of Mother Goose (1995)
• The Awful Truth with Michael Moore (1999)^[4]
• General Hospital (2002)
• Gilmore Girls (2000–2007)
• Still Standing (2003–2006)
• The Winner (2007)
• Celebrity Ghost Stories (2011)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Sally Struthers at the Internet Movie Database
• Sally Struthers at the Internet Broadway Database

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Faye Dunaway
Dunaway at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival premiere of Baby Mama
Born	Dorothy Faye Dunaway (1941-01-14) January 14, 1941 (age 71) Bascom, Florida, United States
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1962 - present
Spouse	Peter Wolf (1974–1979) Terry O'Neill (1983–1987)
Partner	Marcello Mastroianni (1968-1970)[citation needed]

Dorothy Faye Dunaway (born January 14, 1941) is an American actress. She won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the 1976 film Network. She was previously nominated for Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and Chinatown (1974). She has starred in a variety of other successful films, including The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), Three Days of the Condor (1975), and Mommie Dearest (1981).

Early life[link]

Dunaway was born in Bascom, Florida, the daughter of Grace April (née Smith), a housewife, and John MacDowell Dunaway, Jr., a career non-commissioned officer in the United States Army.^[1] She is of Scots-Irish, English, and German descent.^[2][3][4] She attended the University of Florida,^[5] Florida State University,^[6] and Boston University, but graduated from the University of Florida in theater. In 1962, Dunaway joined the American National Theater and Academy.

Career[link]

Dunaway appeared on Broadway in 1962 as the daughter of Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons. Her first screen role was in 1967 in The Happening. In 1967, she was in Hurry Sundown; that same year, she gained the leading female role in Bonnie and Clyde opposite Warren Beatty, which earned her an Oscar nomination. She also starred in 1968 with Steve McQueen in the caper film The Thomas Crown Affair (and had a small role in the 1999 remake with the same title with Pierce Brosnan).

Dunaway at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.

In the 1970s, she starred in such films as Three Days of the Condor, Little Big Man, Chinatown, The Three/Four Musketeers, Eyes of Laura Mars, and Network, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress as the scheming TV executive Diana Christensen. She worked with such leading men as Dustin Hoffman, Charlton Heston, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Tommy Lee Jones, Jack Nicholson, and Robert Duvall.

In the 1980s, although her performances did not waver, the parts grew less compelling.^{[citation needed]} Dunaway would later blame Mommie Dearest (1981) for ruining her career as a leading lady.^{[citation needed]} She received a Razzie Award for Worst Actress, and the critics despised the film, although it grossed a moderate $19 million in its first release and was one of the top 30 grossing films of the year. In 1987, she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama for her performance in Barfly with Mickey Rourke. In the 1980s, Dunaway worked alongside legendary actress Bette Davis. During a 1988 appearance on The Johnny Carson Show, the latter emphatically stated that she would never work with Dunaway again. In a later movie, Don Juan DeMarco (1995), Dunaway co-starred with Johnny Depp and Marlon Brando.

Dunaway starred in the 1986 made-for-television movie Beverly Hills Madam opposite Melody Anderson, Donna Dixon, Terry Farrell and Robin Givens. She had earlier turned down the role of Sable Colby on The Colbys, the Aaron Spelling spin-off of the nighttime soap Dynasty.^[7] In 1993, Dunaway briefly starred in a sitcom with Robert Urich, It Had to Be You.^[8] She also starred in Arizona Dream in 1993. Dunaway won an Emmy for a 1994 role as a murderer in "It's All in the Game," an episode of the long-running mystery series Columbo.

In 1996, she toured nationally with the stage play Master Class. The story about opera singer Maria Callas was well received. Dunaway bought the rights to the Terrence McNally play for possible film development.^{[citation needed]}

In 2000, she turned down Requiem for a Dream^[9] and appeared in The Yards. In 2006, Dunaway played a character named Lois O'Neill in season six, episode 13 of the crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, titled "Kiss-Kiss, Bye-Bye". She served as a judge on the 2005 reality show The Starlet, which sought, American Idol-style, to find the next young actress with the potential to become a major star. In the spring of 2007, the direct-to-DVD movie release of Rain, based on the novel by V. C. Andrews and starring Dunaway, was released. In 2009, Dunaway starred in the film The Bait, by Polish film director and producer Dariusz Zawiślak. The Bait is a contemporary version of a drama Balladyna, by Polish 19th - century poet Juliusz Słowacki.^{[citation needed]}

On October 2, 1996, Dunaway was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7021 Hollywood Boulevard.^[10]

Personal life[link]

Dunaway at Fashion for Relief 2007

Dunaway has been married twice, from 1974 to 1979 to Peter Wolf, the lead singer of the rock group The J. Geils Band,^{[citation needed]} and from 1984 to 1987 to Terry O'Neill, a British photographer.^[11] She and O'Neill have one child, Liam O'Neill (born 1980). In 2003, despite Dunaway's earlier claims that she had given birth to Liam, Terry claims that Liam was adopted.^[11]

Dunaway is an adult convert to Roman Catholicism.^[12]

In August, 2011, Dunaway was sued for eviction by the landlord of her rent stabilized apartment on East 78th Street in Manhattan. The suit alleged that she was not actually residing in the apartment but rather lived in California. Rent stabilization rules require tenants to live in the apartment they are renting as a primary residence, not as a second home. If Dunaway were to leave the apartment, rented by her on August 1, 1994, the landlord could receive more than double the $1,048.72 per month rent paid by Dunaway.^[13] In a voice message to the New York Times, Dunaway said that she had not been evicted, but had chosen to leave the apartment because of its condition and that she had been spending less time in New York.^[14]

Filmography[link]