MTW-Mame, Sally Struthers Bio

SALLY STRUTHERS (Agnes Gooch) is a two-time Emmy Award winner and was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. She attended the famed Pasadena Playhouse College of Theatre Arts, where she won a scholarship as the most promising first-year student. Sally worked on numerous commercials, dance on the "Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass Special" and made regular appearances on two variety series, "The Summer Brothers Smothers Show" and "The Tim Conway Comedy Hour". She then won the "Gloria Stivic" role in "All in the Family". The rest is television history. In the film "Five Easy Pieces", Sally appeared with Jack Nicholson, and in 1972 she appeared with Steve McQueen and Ali McGraw in "The Getaway". Struthers' credits include the television movies: "Deadly Silence", "A Gun in the House", "And Your Name is Jonah", "My Husband is Missing", "Intimate Strangers", "The Great Houdinis", "Hey I'm Alive" and "In the Best Interest of the Children". Sally also starred in the television series "9 to 5" and "Gloria". She appeared on the Broadway stage in Neil Simon's female version of THE ODD COUPLE, starred as Miss Hannigan in the 20th Anniversary National tour of ANNIE, starred as Miss Lynch on Broadway and in the National Tour of the Tommy Tune production of the musical GREASE and the recent REPRISE! production of ANYTHING GOES. Sally has appeared several times as Louise Seger, Patsy Cline's most avid fan, in the popular musical, ALWAYS PATSY CLINE.