Allyce Beasley

Allyce Beasley

Beasley and then husband, actor Vincent Schiavelli on September 20, 1987
Born Alice Tannenberg
(1954-07-06) July 6, 1954
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Occupation Actress
Spouse(s) Christopher Sansocie (m. 1970–72)
Vincent Schiavelli (m. 1985–88)
Jim Bosche (m. 1999)
Children Andrea Schiavelli (with Vincent Schiavelli)

Allyce Beasley (born July 6, 1954) is an American actress. She is known for her role as rhyming, love-struck receptionist Agnes DiPesto in the television series Moonlighting. From September 2000 to March 30, 2007, she was the announcer on Playhouse Disney, a morning lineup of programming for toddlers on Disney Channel.(replaced by Disney Junior). She also appeared briefly as a guidance counselor in the Reese Witherspoon film comedy Legally Blonde and played Coach's daughter, Lisa Pantusso, on Cheers.

Personal life

Beasley was born Allyce Tannenberg in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Harriet, a bookkeeper, and Marvin Tannenberg, a cartoonist.[1]

Beasley was married to Christopher Sansocie from 1970 until their divorce in 1972.[2] From 1985 until their divorce in 1988, she was married to actor Vincent Schiavelli (who died in 2005); they had one son, Andrea Schiavelli. In 1999, Beasley married for the third time to her current husband Jim Bosche.

Beasley is a breast cancer survivor.[3]

Voice work

Beasley has also worked as a voice actress. She is probably best known for Miss Alordayne Grotke in the popular Walt Disney TV series Recess and in 1999 she appeared in the movie Stuart Little along with her co star from Recess, Dabney Coleman.

On a computer game called Pacxon, she provides the voice of Clyde's mom.

She has also voiced herself in an episode of Johnny Bravo, made a guest appearance in the television series The Wild Thornberrys, Extreme Ghostbusters, Pound Puppies, Darkwing Duck, Lloyd in Space and Duckman and the film Garfield on the Town and voiced several characters in the video game EverQuest II.

She also narrated for Playhouse Disney from 2000 until 2007.

Stage work

During the summer of 2009, she was seen onstage in The Drowsy Chaperone at Gateway Playhouse on Long Island, playing Mrs. Tottendale.

She replaced Veanne Cox in the role of 'Mme. Renaud/Mme. Dindon' in the Tony Award-winning revival of La Cage aux Folles (alongside Kelsey and Douglas Hodge) on September 14, 2010.

In the Spring of 2014, she portrayed 'Doris' in the musical Damn Yankees with Lora Lee Gayer at the legendary Goodspeed Opera House In East Haddam, CT.

Filmography

References

  1. ↑ Allyce Beasley Biography
  2. ↑ Article People Magazine, 1986]
  3. ↑ List of breast cancer survivors
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