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Sally Anne Struthers is an American actress, voice actress, spokeswoman, and activist, who, for Disney, voiced Rebecca Cunningham in TaleSpin and Charlene Sinclair in Dinosaurs.

Struthers was born in 1947 and attended Grant High School. She pursued an acting career following high school and eventually moved to Los Angeles where she trained at the Pasadena Playhouse College of Theatre Arts, earning a scholarship as its "most promising student." She performed briefly in regional stock plays until finding her break as both a commercial actress and dancer on television. She became a recurring performer on The Smothers Brothers Summer Show and The Tim Conway Comedy Hour before appearing in films, like Five Easy Pieces and The Getaway.

She gained acclaim and recognition for her role as Gloria Bunker in the 1971-1979 sitcom All in the Family starring Carroll O'Connor and Jean Stapleton as conservative parents Archie and Edith, and Rob Reiner as liberal husband Mike. Struthers went on to win two supporting Emmy Awards and four Golden Globe nominations. She would reprise the role in two spinoffs, Archie Bunker's Place and her short-lived leading sitcom Gloria. She also appeared in other shows, like Love, American Style, The Courtship of Eddie's Father, Ironside, Murder, She Wrote, Gilmore Girls, General Hospital, 9 to 5, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and Still Standing.

She also voice-acted in animated productions, like Yo Yogi!, Tiny Toon Adventures, Droopy, Master Detective, The Wild Thornberrys, Tom and Jerry Kids, Betsy's Kindergarten Adventures, and as teenaged Pebbles Flintstone in The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show and Fred Flintstone and Friends.

Struthers also appeared on Broadway and regional theater productions, like Wally's Cafe, Hello, Dolly!, 9 to 5: The Musical, Always...Patsy Cline, Annie, Grease, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Mame, and a gender-bending version of The Odd Couple as neat-freak "Florence" opposite Rita Moreno's slovenly "Olive".

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