Sally Struther’s Biography, Net worth, Career and Awards

Sally Struthers’ Early Life

Sally Struthers was born Sally Anne Struthers on July 28, 1947, in Portland, Oregon. Her father, Robert (a surgeon), left the family when Struthers was 7 years old, and she and her older sister, Sue, were raised by their mother, Margaret. Sally’s mother worked as an accountant at Bonneville Power Administration and suffered from depression after her husband abandoned the family. Struthers won her first acting award in seventh grade for her performance in a school play at Faubion Elementary School. Sally attended Grant High School, where she joined the cheerleading squad and participated in the school’s theatre program, then she moved to California after earning a scholarship to the Pasadena Playhouse College of Theatre Arts. Struthers’ father died in a car accident when she was 20.

Sally Struther’s Personal Life

Sally married William C. Rader, a psychiatrist, on December 18, 1977, and they welcomed daughter Samantha before divorcing in 1983. Struthers has served as a spokesperson for the charitable organization Christian Children’s Fund (now known as ChildFund) as well as the International Correspondence School.

What is Sally Struthers’ Net Worth?

Sally Struthers is an American actress and spokeswoman who has a net worth of $6 million. Struthers is best known for playing Gloria Stivic on the CBS sitcom “All in the Family” (1971–1978), a role that earned her two Primetime Emmys. Sally reprised her role in the spin-off “Gloria,” which aired from 1982 to 1983.

Struthers has appeared in more than 70 film and television projects, including “Five Easy Pieces” (1970), “The Getaway” (1972), “General Hospital” (2002), and “Still Standing” (2003–2006). She starred as Marsha McMurray Shrimpton on ABC’s “9 to 5” (1986–1988) and had a recurring role as Babette Dell on The WB/CW series “Gilmore Girls” (2000–2007), and she voiced Pebbles Flintstone on “The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show” (1971–1972) and “Fred Flintstone and Friends” (1977–1978) and Charlene Sinclair on “Dinosaurs” (1991–1994).

Sally has also lent her voice to the television series “TaleSpin” (1990–1991), “Yo Yogi!” (1991), “Droopy, Master Detective” (1993–1994), and “Betsy’s Kindergarten Adventures” (2008–2009). Struthers has appeared on Broadway in “Wally’s Cafe” (1981), “The Odd Couple” (1985), and “Grease” (1994), and she played Miss Hannigan in the 20th Anniversary National Tour of “Annie” (1998–1999). She has appeared in theatrical productions of “Always…Patsy Cline,” “Anything Goes,” “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” “Hello, Dolly!,” “Fiddler on the Roof,” “Chicago,” “Legally Blonde,” “9 to 5: The Musical,” and “Spamalot” as well.

Career

In 1970, Sally had an uncredited role in the film “The Phynx,” co-starred with Jack Nicholson in “Five Easy Pieces,” and appeared on “The Tim Conway Comedy Hour” and “The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.” In 1971, she guest-starred on “Love, American Style,” “Ironside,” and “The Courtship of Eddie’s Father,” and she began starring on “All in the Family” alongside Carroll O’Connor, Jean Stapleton, and Rob Reiner. The series aired 205 episodes over nine seasons, and Struthers starred in her own spin-off, “Gloria,” which ran for 21 episodes from 1982 to 1983. She also guest-starred in five episodes of the spin-off “Archie Bunker’s Place” (1979–1982) and appeared on “All in the Family: 20th Anniversary Special” (1991). During her time as Gloria Stivic, Sally also appeared in the films “The Getaway” (1972), “The Great Houdini” (1976), and “…And Your Name Is Jonah” (1979) and the TV movies “Aloha Means Goodbye” (1974), “Hey, I’m Alive” (1975), “Intimate Strangers” (1977), “My Husband is Missing” (1978), and “A Gun in the House” (1981). She portrayed Tiger Lily in the 1985 miniseries “Alice in Wonderland,” and from 1986 to 1988, she starred on the TV adaptation of the 1980 film “9 to 5.” Struthers joined the series during season four and appeared in 52 episodes. In 1989, she guest-starred on “Charles in Charge” and starred in the TV movie “A Deadly Silence.”

In the ’90s, Sally appeared in the film “The Others” (1997), the TV movie “In the Best Interest of the Children” (1992), and more than 60 episodes of “Match Game” (1990–1991). She also guest-starred on “Sister Kate” (1990) and “Murder, She Wrote” (1990), and from 1991 to 1994, she voiced Charlene Sinclair on the ABC sitcom “Dinosaurs,” which aired 65 episodes. From 2000 to 2007, Struthers played Babette Dell on 52 episodes of “Gilmore Girls,” and she reprised her role in the 2016 Netflix miniseries “Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life.” Around this time, she appeared in the films “Out of the Black” (2001), “A Month of Sundays” (2001), “”Reeseville” (2003), and “Baadasssss!” (2003), the TV movie “What I Did for Love” (2006), and the TV series “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” (2003) and “The Division” (2003).

In 2002, Sally had a recurring role as Jennifer Smith on the ABC soap opera “General Hospital,” and in 2003, she began a 10-episode stint as Louise Miller on the CBS sitcom “Still Standing.” She appeared in the films “Monster Heroes” (2010), “Waiting in the Wings: the Musical” (2014), “Hollywood Musical!” (2015), “You & Me” (2017), and “Still Waiting in the Wings” (2018) and the TV movie “Christmas Harmony” (2018). Sally appeared on “Celebrity Ghost Stories” in 2011 and guest-starred on two episodes of “Maron” in 2016. She played Dolly Levi in the 50th Anniversary Tour of “Hello, Dolly!” from 2013 to 2014, and in 2021, she appeared in “Young Frankenstein” at the Ogunquit Playhouse in Maine. Struthers has appeared in several Ogunquit Playhouse productions, including “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas,” “Thoroughly Modern Millie,” and “Irving Berlin’s White Christmas the Musical.”

Awards and Nominations

Struthers received five Primetime Emmy nominations for “All in the Family,” winning Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in Comedy in 1972 and Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy or Comedy-Variety or Music Series in 1979. The series also earned her four Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actress – Television. In 2010, Sally won an Ovation Award for Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance as the Fairy Godmother in “Cinderella” at the Cabrillo Music Theatre in Thousand Oaks, California.

Real Estate

In 2005, Struthers sold her 6,800+ square foot home in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles for around $3 million. The seven-bedroom home was built in 1938.