What Is Sally Struthers Doing Now? Inside the Life of ‘All in the Family’ Star

Archie Bunker (Car­roll O’Connor) was the main attrac­tion of All in the Fam­i­ly,but his daugh­ter Glo­ria (Sal­ly Struthers) was a fire­crack­er all her own. A fem­i­nist through and through, Glo­ria Stivic (née Bunker) cap­tured the hearts of audi­ences was she grew from a kind and some­what dimwit­ted girl to a qui­et but mature young woman over time. Still, as big as it was, All in the Fam­i­lyonly rep­re­sent­ed just one por­tion of Struthers’ career. What else did she accom­plish after mak­ing it big?

Sal­ly Struthers was born on July 28, 1947, mak­ing her 74 as of sum­mer 2021. Born in Port­land, Ore­gon, she spent most of her youth there before enter­ing show busi­ness. Her first act­ing role came in the form of 1970’s The Phynx as ‘World’s No. 1 Fan.” She got her first real break when cast oppo­site Jack Nichol­son in the ’70s flick Five Easy Pieces. From there on, she attract­ed addi­tion­al roles through­out both the TV and film indus­tries. That cul­mi­nat­ed in her land­ing the role of Glo­ria in All in the Fam­i­ly.

Mak­ing it big 

Struthers had a chance to stretch her com­e­dy legs with a recur­ring gig on The Tim Con­way Com­e­dy Hour. She was most­ly uti­lized as a dancer. That would ulti­mate­ly end with her being let go from the show. Her stint end­ed because, accord­ing to Struthers, “the suits in New York said that I made the show look cheap.” But, as she point­ed out, being free from the Tim Con­way gig ensured she was able to read for All in the Fam­i­ly. The rest, as we know, is his­to­ry. She went on to cap­ture hearts around the globe as part of the Bunker clan, win­ning two Emmy awards in the process.

Voice work and a sto­ried return

But the world wasn’t tired of see­ing Glo­ria on All in the Fam­i­ly just yet. She would first return to her role on the All in the Fam­i­ly spin-off Archie Bunker’s Place before going on to star in 1982’s Glo­ria, where she reprised her role as Bunker’s daugh­ter Glo­ria Stivic, now a new­ly-divorced vet­eri­nary assis­tant. It was a short-lived return to the char­ac­ter, how­ev­er, as the show only last­ed for one sea­son.

Struthers lat­er appeared in the sit­com Nine to Five, based on the 1980 film of the same name, play­ing the char­ac­ter Moreno for a 52-episode run

What did Sal­ly Struthers do after ‘All in the Fam­i­ly‘?

Struthers has had a rel­a­tive­ly qui­et life since enter­ing the spot­light. She hasn’t entered a pub­lic rela­tion­ship since 1977, dur­ing which she mar­ried psy­chi­a­trist William C. Rad­er. The pair had one child (Saman­tha), and divorced in 1983. Out­side of her per­son­al life, she found suc­cess work­ing in all facets of the movie and TV indus­try. She’s voiced a num­ber of icon­ic char­ac­ters. That includes Dinosaurs‘ Char­lene Sin­clair, TaleSpin’s Rebec­ca Cun­ning­ham, and Peb­bles Flint­stone. She’s also seen recur­ring roles in new­er series, like Gilmore Girls and Still Stand­ing

Out­side of her act­ing work, Struthers is a spokesper­son for Child­Fund (for­mer­ly Chris­t­ian Children’s Fund). She also rep­re­sent­ed the Inter­na­tion­al Cor­re­spon­dence School (ICS) in com­mer­cials through­out the late ’90s and ear­ly 2000s. But no mat­ter what Struthers does next, we’ll nev­er for­get the flax­en-haired Bunker who fell in love with her “Meat­head”.