‘Sesame Street’ and ‘227′ actress Alaina Reed Hall dies
December 23rd, 2009 - 2:01 am ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt ( 2 comments )
Santa Monica, Dec 22 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The ‘Sesame Street’ and ‘227’ actress Alaina Reed Hall has died, after losing her long battle with breast cancer. She was 63.
She was also known as Alaina Reed-Amini and she was born in 1946 in Ohio. And Reed-Amini had joined the cast of “Sesame Street” in 1976.
Alaina Reed Hall was the actress who played Olivia Robinson on “Sesame Street” for a more than a decade from the mid-1970s and later played Rose Holloway on the situation comedy “227”. Reed Hall co-stared as Rose with Jackée Harry on ‘227.’ And the situational comedy series lasted five seasons.
She had guest appearances on the cult favorite ‘Blossom’ and then was cast as the lead on the sitcom ‘Cleghorne!’ in 1995. She also appeared on Broadway in shows like “Hair” and “Chicago.”
Alaina Reed Hall was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2007, and she died on Thursday at Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, according to her husband, Tamim Amini.
Her professional work is as follows • 1969: 1, Sesame Street (Sesame Street) (TV): Olivia Robinson (1976-1988) • 1978: Cindy (TV): Venus • 1978: Christmas Eve on Sesame Street (TV): Olivia • 1981: Eubie! (TV) • 1985: Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird: Olivia • 1985: 227 (TV): Rose Lee Holloway • 1992: Death Becomes Her (Death Becomes Her): Psychologist • 1993: Me and the Kid: Sarah • 1994: Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? (TV): Additional Voices (voice) • 1995: Cleghorne! (TV series): Lena • 1996: The Cherokee Kid (TV): My Holsopple • 1997: The Blues Brothers Animated Series (TV series): Mama Lou (voice) • 1999: Cruel Intentions (Cruel Intentions): Nurse • 2001: Chasing Sunsets: Mrs.. Stevens • 2003: Scrambled: Gert .
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December 23rd, 2009 at 5:58 am
how could you report someone died when it isn’t Dec 23rd yet?
December 23rd, 2009 at 8:11 am
I was raised in Utah, born in 1966, live in Seattle now. Utah was so white back then. Along comes this wonderful program Sesame Street. All kinds of people living on a street with Big Bird and Cookie Monster (My favorite). People of all colors working together teaching us life skills about respect, reading, being different and it all being OK.
Thank you Alaina for giving us that gift in such a formidable time in my life. And to her husband after losing my wife to bc in 2004, my best wishes and hopes to you and your family.