32 Facts About Sandra Peabody

Sandra Peabody was born on January 11,1948 and is an American producer, writer, acting coach, talent agent, and retired actress.

Sandra Peabody began her career as a teen actress in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

In 1966, Sandra Peabody began studying drama at Carnegie Mellon University and began training in the Meisner technique directly from acting teacher Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre.

Sandra Peabody retired from acting by the mid-1970s and taught theatrical training for children at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts before moving to Portland, Oregon and launching a successful career in cable television as a children's television producer, beginning in 1982.

Sandra Peabody's producing and writing credits include the show Get Movin' and the award-winning series Popcorn.

Sandra Lee Peabody was born on January 11,1948, in Portland, Oregon.

In 1964, Sandra Peabody got cast in another one-act play, Riders to the Sea, which opened at Florida State University in July.

Burgeoning as a teen actress, Sandra Peabody got cast in a leading role as a drug-addicted teenager in Bob O'Donnell's religious educational film Misfit, which was her feature film debut.

The film was produced by a New York-based production company, and although Sandra Peabody was not the original choice for the role, she got cast after the leading actress became sick before filming began.

Sandra Peabody subsequently portrayed Beauty in a play adaptation of Beauty and the Beast and Katie Brown in the play Calamity Jane.

In 1970, Sandra Peabody had a supporting role as The Sun in the Robert Kalfin and The Rubber Duck directed Off-Broadway production Tarot, which ran at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Sandra Peabody appeared in the film's fictitious commercial segments as a character named Olga.

Sandra Peabody later had roles in the drama film Love-In '72 and Chuck Vincent's Manhattan-set horror film Voices of Desire.

Craven and Cunningham originally wanted Sandra Peabody to read for the role of Phyllis ; after they met her, they decided to cast her as Mari.

Craven's original script for The Last House on the Left was for a hardcore pornographic horror film, but Sandra Peabody did not want to do the movie based on the script, and Craven promised her that he would rewrite it as a traditional horror film.

Sandra Peabody believes Craven and Cunningham succeeded with the film given their limited resources.

Sandra Peabody had a sporadic television career in the early 1970s, appearing on the soap operas All My Children, As the World Turns, The Edge of Night, and One Life to Live in supporting roles, along with various commercial appearances for products such as breakfast cereal.

Sandra Peabody's portrayal received praise: writer Jonathan Takiff of Philadelphia Daily News stated that she was believable as an actress.

Sandra Peabody's performance received positive reviews: one critic, Linda Gross, wrote for Los Angeles Times that her performance was "ingenious", while a review written for DVD Talk praises her comic timing capabilities.

Sandra Peabody's last acting credit is the stage production Tunnel of Love.

In 1982, Sandra Peabody conceptualized the Cablesystems Pacific local late-night talk show Portland Tonight.

Sandra Peabody was heavily inspired by The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and wanted to make it Portland-oriented.

Sandra Peabody conceptualized the series at a time when networks began to decrease funding for children's programming.

Subsequently, Sandra Peabody produced the children's public broadcasting series Popcorn for the television station KATU, which debuted as a prime-time special in 1985 before being picked up as a weekly series in September 1986.

In 1993, KATU canceled the series, and Sandra Peabody was laid off.

In 1988, Sandra Peabody developed A Time to Care, a television documentary film that focuses on local nursing homes and the positive effects that community volunteerism has on the residents.

In 1994, Sandra Peabody served as the casting director for the children's musical home video Wee Sing: Under the Sea.

Sandra Peabody wrote and produced the educational public television series Zone In revolving around "tough issues for kids".

Since the 2000s, Sandra Peabody has worked as an acting coach and talent agent at theater schools such as Northwest Children's Theater.

Sandra Peabody has taught the Meisner technique she was trained with during her youth to a younger generation and has helped launch the acting careers of several child actors such as Bret Harrison and Alicia Lagano and has provided guidance to those studying under her with both entering and navigating the industry.

In 1973, Sandra Peabody stated that she studied both free-form jazz dance and Transcendental Meditation.

Sandra Peabody described Hurwitz as being a "fatherly kind of guy" towards her and was saddened by his death on a bicycle a few years after the release of the film.