\u201cShe was a force. And it is unimaginable to think about life without her in it. But as she said, \u2018I\u2019m always with you.\u2019 And she\u2019s right.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe memories, artwork, belly laughter, handmade jewellery, oil paintings, sculptures, costumes, and all-round joie de vivre live on.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Schedeens asked fans to \u201craise a margarita in her honour\u201d.<\/p>\n
Their post continued: \u201cShe is survived by beloved friends and family, including her husband of 55 years, Christopher Barrett, darling daughter, Taylor Barrett, daughter-in-law, Hilary Flynn, sister, Sarabeth Schedeen, niece, Minnie Schedeen, brother, Roland \u201cTony\u201d Schedeen, sister-in-law, Julieann Schedeen, and her beloved rescue dogs, Roo and Red.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn lieu of flowers, the family welcomes donations to one of Annie\u2019s favourite causes, Habitat for Humanity.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe all love you, Annie.\u201d<\/p>\n
A cause of death is yet to be revealed.<\/p>\n
Social media was flooded with tributes for Anne, who also starred in the ABC sitcom Three\u2019s Company.<\/p>\n
Her agent Tom Markley wrote: \u201cAnne was a true artist and friend. One of a kind. I\u2019ll miss her.\u201d<\/p>\n
Morgan Fairchild, 76, who starred opposite Anne in Paper Dolls, typed: \u201cSo sorry to hear of Anne\u2019s passing! We did series Paper Dolls together, and she was such a lovely lady and wonderful actress! A great loss for all.<\/p>\n
\u201cCondolences to her family.\u201d<\/p>\n
And a fan wrote: \u201cWhat a treasure Annie was. What a gift to so many who knew and loved her.\u201d<\/p>\n
Born in Portland, Oregon, in January 1949, the entertainer first tried acting in a local theatre before she moved east to New York to kick-start her professional career in the entertainment industry.<\/p>\n
Anne told the Washington Post newspaper: \u201cIt was a long wait. I sold clothes, modelled clothes, and was a shoe model. I played in summer stock and did a commercial.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen I got signed by a big agent. Within a month, I had a contract with Universal.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought I\u2019d come out here, take fencing lessons, drive a small Thunderbird, and sit by the swimming pool. Instead, I was the daughter on Marcus Welby, M.D.\u201d<\/p>\n
In 1986, she was cast as Kate Tanner in Alf, which follows the titular alien who landed in the family\u2019s garage and moved in.<\/p>\n
Speaking of her time on the show, she recalled to People magazine: \u201c[It was] extremely slow, hot, and tedious.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you had a scene with Alf, it took centuries. A 30-minute show took 20 to 25 hours to shoot.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome of the actors in the cast had difficult personalities. The whole thing was a big, dysfunctional family.\u201d<\/p>\n
Anne\u2019s other acting credits included Magnum, P.I., mystery Murder, She Wrote and medical drama ER, all for CBS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cShe was a force. And it is unimaginable to think about life without her in it. But as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[100518,18919,240702,242780,18316,6179,7126,156,111,139,69,242779,2737],"class_list":["post-483412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-100518","tag-aged","tag-alf","tag-alfs","tag-anne","tag-died","tag-dies","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-schedeen","tag-star"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}