Stage and display veteran actress Rae Allen, handed away on Wednesday at the age of 95, studies `Variety`.
A Tony Award winner, Rae is finest remembered for her function as nosy reporter Gloria Thorpe in `Damn Yankees` and as Quintina Blundetto on `The Sopranos`.
The actress`s consultant Kyle Fritz confirmed her demise to `Variety`. Born in Brooklyn as Rae Julia Theresa Abruzzo, Allen started her profession on the stage after graduating from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1947. Her first Broadway credit score was in 1948, as an ensemble member within the George Abbott directed and written `Where`s Charley?`
Over the following few years, Rae would proceed to seem in Abbott`s numerous musicals, together with `Call Me Madam` in 1950 and `The Pajama Game` in 1954, the place she performed the small function of Poopsie, a union activist at the manufacturing facility the present is ready in. On movie and TV, Allen was a prolific character actor.
Some of her most notable tv appearances included `All within the Family`, the place she portrayed Edith Bunker`s cousin Amelia, and `Soap`, the place she had a stint as Judge Betty Small.
She additionally had a essential function within the brief lived 1995 Fox horror sequence `The Fearing Mind`, the place she performed the grandmother of the primary character, a well-known horror author who based mostly his work on his household. Other exhibits she appeared in for visitor roles included `The Untouchables`, `The Greatest American Hero`, `Lou Grant`, `Hill Street Blues`, `Head of the Class` and `Seinfeld`.
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