Sian Barbara Allen

About Sian Barbara Allen

Who is it?: Actress, Writer
Birth Day: July 19, 2012
Birth Place:  Reading, Pennsylvania, United States

Sian Barbara Allen

Sian Barbara Allen was born on July 19, 2012 in  Reading, Pennsylvania, United States, is Actress, Writer. Sian Barbara Allen was born Barbara Susan Pokrass in Reading, Pennsylvania on July 12, 1946. She studied at the Pasadena Playhouse from 1964 to1965. Her performance as the mentally challenged Kathleen in "You'll Like My Mother" (1972) opposite Patty Duke, Rosemary Murphy and Richard Thomas earned her a 1973 Golden Globe nomination for "Most Promising New Actress". While working on "You'll Like My Mother" Sian Barbara met and fell in love with the man playing her character's psychopathic brother, actor Richard Thomas. The two began a relationship that lasted for several years in the 1970's. Richard Thomas went on to play John-Boy on the hit TV show The Waltons (1971). When the writers of The Waltons wanted to do a love story for John-Boy in the first season, Thomas suggested his real-life girlfriend play his onscreen love interest. Sian appeared as "Jenny Pendleton" in the episode "The Love Story," which earned Richard Thomas his Emmy award in 1973. Sian portrayed the titular character Peggy Johns in the 1973 TV movie "Scream, Pretty Peggy" with Bette Davis and Ted Bessell. Sian worked steadily as a TV actress throughout the 1970s, appearing on shows like The Rockford Files (1974), Ironside (1967), Bonanza (1959), Gunsmoke (1955) and many others. She also wrote a script for an episode of the fourth season of "Baretta." Her last on screen role was in the L.A. Law (1986) episode, "Whatever Happened to Hannah?" Sian ended her acting career after marrying and giving birth to a daughter. She now channels her creativity into writing. She is the older sister of flash fiction author, editor, and teacher Meg Pokrass. She lives in Portland, Oregon.
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Popular As Sian Barbara Allen
Occupation Actress
Age 11 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born July 19, 2012 ( Reading, Pennsylvania, United States)
Birthday July 19
Town/City  Reading, Pennsylvania, United States
Nationality United States

🌙 Zodiac

Sian Barbara Allen’s zodiac sign is Leo. According to astrologers, people born under the sign of Leo are natural born leaders. They are dramatic, creative, self-confident, dominant and extremely difficult to resist, able to achieve anything they want to in any area of life they commit to. There is a specific strength to a Leo and their "king of the jungle" status. Leo often has many friends for they are generous and loyal. Self-confident and attractive, this is a Sun sign capable of uniting different groups of people and leading them as one towards a shared cause, and their healthy sense of humor makes collaboration with other people even easier.

🌙 Chinese Zodiac Signs

Sian Barbara Allen was born in the Year of the Dragon. A powerful sign, those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Dragon are energetic and warm-hearted, charismatic, lucky at love and egotistic. They’re natural born leaders, good at giving orders and doing what’s necessary to remain on top. Compatible with Monkey and Rat.

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Biography/Timeline

1964

She studied at the Pasadena Playhouse (1964–1965). She appeared in You'll Like My Mother (1972), starring Patty Duke, Rosemary Murphy and Richard Thomas. For this role, Allen was nominated for the 1973 Golden Globe Award as Most Promising New Actress.

1965

She married and had a daughter. Her own mother and father divorced around 1965. She is the older sister of flash fiction author, Editor and Teacher Meg Pokrass.

1973

She later garnered fame on two episodes of The Waltons (1973) as Jenny Pendleton, an early love interest of John-Boy Walton (reuniting her with Thomas, who played John-Boy and with whom she had appeared in You'll Like My Mother the previous year). Allen and Thomas were themselves described as "together these days", and Thomas wanted Allen to play the Pendleton role. She played the title role in the 1973 ABC Movie of the Week, Scream, Pretty Peggy.

1974

Allen appeared on television programs such as Captains and the Kings, The Incredible Hulk, Ironside, The Rockford Files, Alias Smith and Jones, Bonanza, Kojak, Gunsmoke, Love, American Style, Columbo: Lovely but Lethal, Cagney & Lacey, Adam-12, and Hawaii Five-O. In 1974 she was the lead Actress in the western Billy Two Hats, alongside Gregory Peck and Jack Warden. In 1976, she portrayed Anne Morrow Lindbergh in the television movie The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case, based on the real-life Lindbergh baby kidnapping/murder. Her last role was in an episode of L.A. Law in 1990, after which she retired from acting.

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