{"id":704880,"date":"2026-06-15T05:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T05:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/704880\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T05:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T05:33:08","slug":"anne-schedeen-dies-alf-actress-was-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/704880\/","title":{"rendered":"Anne Schedeen Dies: ‘ALF’ Actress Was 77"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAnne Schedeen<\/a>, the actress who starred as matriarch Kate Tanner on NBC\u2019s ALF<\/a> (1986-\u201990), has died. She was 77.<\/p>\n

\n\tDeadline confirms the actress died after the family announced on Sunday that she \u201cpassed peacefully\u201d with a heartfelt tribute posted on her Facebook. A cause of death was not immediately known.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt is with the heaviest of hearts that we share Annie has passed peacefully,\u201d the family wrote in the post<\/a>. \u201cShe leaves behind an extraordinary legacy of creative energy, whip smart humor, delight in her family, adoration for little dogs, burning hatred for Trump, passion for second-hand thrifting, and love for a good story. We are bereft without her. We loved her so so much, as did all who met her.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThey continued, \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. The memories, artwork, belly laughter, handmade jewelry, oil paintings, sculptures, costumes, and all around joie de vivre live on.\u00a0Raise a margarita in her honor.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe family asked that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to \u201cone of Annie\u2019s favorite causes,\u201d Habitat for Humanity. \u201cWe all love you, Annie,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n

\n\tSchedeen\u2019s longtime agent Tom Markley also confirmed the news to Deadline. \u201cAnnie meant the world to her family and this agency,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\n\tBorn Jan. 8, 1949 in Portland, Oregon, Luanne Ruth Schedeen began drama classes as a child, studying and performing at Portland Civic Theatre. After performing dinner theater in Hawaii, she moved to New York City to pursue an acting career, getting her start in summer stock theater. She eventually moved to Los Angeles and signed a contract with Universal Pictures.<\/p>\n

\n\tSchedeen made her onscreen debut in a 1974 episode of The Six Million Dollar Man, going on to appear in episodes of McCloud, The Bionic Woman, Emergency!, The Incredible Hulk, Three\u2019s Company, Cheers, Magnum PI, Murder She Wrote and Judging Amy, as well as movies like Embryo (1976), Flight to Holocaust (1977), Exo-Man (1977), Champions: A Love Story (1979), Second Thoughts (1983), Slow Burn (1986) and Cast the First Stone (1989).<\/p>\n

\n\tThe actress was most know for her role as Kate Tanner, a mother who takes the titular alien into her home on the NBC sitcom ALF, which ran for four seasons from 1986 to 1990.<\/p>\n

\n\tSchedeen is survived by her husband of 55 years, Christopher Barrett, daughter Taylor Barrett, daughter-in-law Hilary Flynn, sister Sarabeth Schedeen, niece Minnie Schedeen, brother Roland \u2018Tony\u2019 Schedeen, sister-in-law Julieanne Schedeen and her rescue dogs Roo and Red.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anne Schedeen, the actress who starred as matriarch Kate Tanner on NBC\u2019s ALF (1986-\u201990), has died. She was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[304488,304489,236,88],"class_list":["post-704880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-alf","tag-anne-schedeen","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}