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Tony Award-Winning ‘Sopranos’ Actress Rae Allen Dies at 95

R.I.P.

Allen starred in “Damn Yankees” on Broadway and its film adaptation, and won a Tony Award for best actress in 1971.

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Brooklyn-born actress Rae Allen, whose career spanned Damn Yankees in the ’50s to All in the Family and The Sopranos, has died at 95. “She [was] one the most gifted actresses I have ever had the pleasure of working with,” her representative, Kyle Fritz, told The Hollywood Reporter in a statement confirming her death. “I will be forever grateful to have been a part of her incredible journey.” Allen won a Tony Award for best actress in 1971 for And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little, and also appeared in A League of Their Own, Stargate, Seinfeld, NYPD Blue, and Grey’s Anatomy, among many others.

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