About Rae Allen
Rae Julia Theresa Abruzzo (July 3, 1926 – April 6, 2022), professionally known as Rae Allen, was an American actress of stage, film and television. Her career spanned some seventy years and eight decades. Allen started her career in theatre in 1941 in a production of Gilbert and Sullivan and made her debut on Broadway in 1948, moving to television and film roles in 1958, making her screen debut in Damn Yankees. She appeared in numerous guest roles in TV shows and was best known for recurring parts in sitcom All in the Family (1972–1973) and mob drama The Sopranos (2004). Her film roles included A League of Their Own (1992) and Stargate (1994). == Biography == Allen was born Rae Julia Theresa Abruzzo in Brooklyn, New York City, on July 3, 1926, to Julia (née Riccio), a seamstress and hairdresser and Joseph Abruzzo, an opera singer and chauffeur, whose brothers acted in vaudeville. At 15, Allen played Buttercup in H.M.S. Pinafore. She trained at the HB Studio in New York City's Greenwich Village. She graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1947. She first married and divorced John M. Allen then later married and divorced Herbert Harris.
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