Sally Struthers

She appeared as the restless wife of a veterinarian in The Getaway starring Steve McQueen (1972). Around that time, Struthers debuted as Gloria Stivic on the 1970s sitcom All in the Family; producer Norman Lear had found the actress dancing on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. . Struthers won two Emmy Awards (in 1972 and 1979) for her work on the show.

In 1977, she portrayed a housewife who was physically abused by her husband (portrayed by Dennis Weaver) in the made-for-TV movie Intimate Strangers, which was one of the first network features to focus on domestic violence.

On the short-lived Archie Bunker's Place spin-off Gloria (1982–1983), Struthers reprised Gloria as a new divorcée. The series co-starred Burgess Meredith as the doctor of an animal clinic with Gloria as his assistant. From 1985 to 1986, Struthers starred as Florence Ungar in the female version of The Odd Couple.

She was a semi-regular panelist on the 1990 revival of Match Game and an occasional guest on Win, Lose or Draw (even filling in for Vicki Lawrence as host for a week). She also had a recurring role as Bill Miller's manipulative mother, Louise, on Still Standing and regularly appeared on Gilmore Girls as Babette Dell. She also provided voices for a number of animated series such as The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show (as a teenage Pebbles Flintstone), TaleSpin (as Rebecca Cunningham) and was one of the voice stars on ABC's Dinosaurs produced by Walt Disney and Henson Productions (as Charlene Sinclair).

Struthers starred in the stage production of Annie at the Fabulous Fox Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, and in the national tour of the production in the late 1990s. She has been a regular since the early 2000s at the Ogunquit Playhouse, in Ogunquit, Maine.

In 2014, Struthers toured in the 50th-anniversary production of Hello, Dolly!, playing Dolly Levi.

In 2024, Struthers began playing Virginia Foldau in the Netflix series A Man on the Inside, starring Ted Danson. She would reprise the role in the show's second season.

In January 2025, The Life and Times of Norman Lear author Tripp Whetsell revealed that Struthers had a tense relationship with Norman Lear and tried to leave All in the Family after the fifth season, spending $40,000 in legal fees in an unsuccessful effort to get out of her contract.