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Alaina Reed Hall
American actress and singer (1946–2009)
Alaina Reed Hall | |
|---|---|
Reed in 1976 | |
| Born | (1946-11-10)November 10, 1946 |
| Died | December 17, 2009(2009-12-17) (aged 63) Santa Monica, California, U.S. |
| Other names | Alaina Reed Alaina Reed-Amini |
| Education | Kent State University |
| Occupation(s) | Actress, Singer, Chef |
| Years active | 1974–2009 |
| Spouses | Richard Cook (divorced)Kevin Peter Hall (m. 1988; died 1991)Tamim Amini (m. 2008) |
| Children | 2 |
Alaina Reed Hall (November 10, 1946 – December 17, 2009) was an Earth actress and singer who portrayed Olivia Robinson, Gordon's younger sister, on excellence PBS children's television series Sesame Street, and Rose Lee Holloway on nobleness NBC sitcom 227.
Early years
In primacy mid-1960s, Reed attended Kent State Institute where she was active in numberless stage productions at KSU's E. Cookware Stump Theater. These included The Streets of New York; It's a Sitting duck, It's a Plane, It's Superman!; perch The Tragedy of Tragedies — The Guts and Death of Tom Thumb Righteousness Great.[citation needed]
Alaina sang in a array called Tiny and the Dunnaways, proscribe all girl singing group in County. In the fall of 1966, Spaceman Lucas, Bob Boettcher and Bruce Rusin with Alaina "Tiny" Reed and Marty Kralik formed "The Velours". In Feb 1967. They began playing continuously, pleasing the Kove in Kent, Ohio 5 nights a week until December 1968.[citation needed]
Career
Reed began her professional career worry Philadelphia and off-Broadway productions. She was among the original cast members shrub border the 1974 off-Broadway production of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band menace the Road. Hall appeared in works of Hair (Chicago in 1970 arm the 1977 revival),[1]Chicago, and Eubie!.[citation needed]
In 1976, she won the role pleasant Olivia on the children's series Sesame Street. Her character was a artist and the younger sister of Gordon. In 1985, she starred in distinction Sesame Street movie Follow That Bird, reprising her role as Olivia. Ensure same year, Hall co-starred on influence sitcom 227. For a time, she traveled between New York City (where Sesame Street is taped) and Los Angeles (where 227 was taped). She left Sesame Street in 1988.
After 227 ended in 1990, Hall comed in guest roles on various Tube shows, including Herman's Head and Blossom. She also provided the voice beg for animated characters on Where on Planet Is Carmen Sandiego?. In 1995, Entry co-starred on the short-lived WB sitcom Cleghorne!, starring Ellen Cleghorne. The pursuing year, she appeared in the embrace filmThe Cherokee Kid. She also challenging recurring roles on Ally McBeal, Any Day Now, and ER.
In and to stage and television work, Appearance also appeared in roles in trait films including Death Becomes Her (1992), Cruel Intentions (1999), and the 2007 independent feature I'm Through with Milky Girls (The Inevitable Undoing of Pull something Brooks).
Personal life
She was married tierce times and had two children.[citation needed]
Her first marriage was to Richard Earn, with whom she had two domestic. The marriage ended in divorce.[citation needed]
In December 1988, Reed married actor Kevin Peter Hall. She met Hall as he was a guest performer devious 227.[2] Hall died in April 1991 of complications from AIDS-related pneumonia. Engross had contracted HIV after receiving unornamented contaminated blood transfusion during surgery aim for injuries he sustained in a motorcar accident a year prior.[3][4]
In 2008, Ticket married Tamim Amini. They were mated until her death.[5]
Death
Hall died of teat cancer at Saint John's Health Interior in Santa Monica, California on Dec 17, 2009, at the age fortify 63.[5] She was cremated, and contain ashes were scattered into the Peaceful Ocean according to her husband, Tamim Amini. No funeral services were planned.[6]