Sian Barbara Allen.
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Allen starred in several 1970s and 1980s TV shows, including The Waltons, The Incredible Hulk, Hawaii Five-0, Columbo, The Rockford Files and Gunsmoke. She also appeared in films such as Billy Two Hats (1974), Love American Style, Scream, Pretty Peggy (1973) and The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case (1976).
Allen was born in Reading, Penn., and attended the Pasadena Playhouse on a scholarship after graduating high school. She went on to star in several theater productions including Our Town in 1976, playing one her favorite roles, Emily Webb — and later naming her daughter after the character.
Sian Barbara Allen in ‘Scream, Pretty Peggy’.
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The late star earned her first Golden Globe nomination for her role in the 1972 film You’ll Like My Mother and became the first woman to pen a script for the TV series Baretta in 1978. She withdrew from acting and public life to focus on politics in 1990, according to the obituary.
“Along with then-husband, Peter, and daughter, Emily, they volunteered for Jackie Goldberg’s 1993 city council campaign in Los Angeles. Sian was a staunch supporter of Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers and never crossed a picket line in her entire life,” the obituary further noted.
Allen’s daughter asked that her mother be honored with donations to the AuthoraCare collective hospice of Burlington or a local organization combating oppression.
