Barrie Youngfellow Freed (born Barrie Sarah Rivchun; October 22, 1946 – March 28, 2022) was an American actress. She was the wife of stage and screen actor

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Career

Youngfellow began her career in the early 1970s in a small role in a 1973 episode of ''

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''. She went on to appear as a guest in episodes of numerous American TV shows of the 1970s and 80s, including ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. She also starred in numerous films and made-for-TV movies including ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and '' Moviola: The Scarlett O'Hara War'' in which she portrayed

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. Youngfellow is best known for her role as sharp-tongued and sarcastic waitress Jan Hoffmeyer Gray on the sitcom ''

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'' from 198082 on

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and 198589 in

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. She and

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and

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were the only actors from ''It's a Living'' to last all the way through the show's network and syndication runs. In 1990, ''It's a Living'' producers

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and Tony Thomas cast Youngfellow in the pilot episode of ''

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'', in which she played the mother of

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's title character; she did not continue with the project when

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picked it up as a regular series. In 1998, she made her last TV appearance, in an

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of ''

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''.

Personal life

She married stage and screen actor

in 1983. The two narrated the 2001

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of ''The Children's Book of Faith'' by

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. Youngfellow was formerly married to Michael Mund Youngfellow from 1968 to 1975. , she was president of the

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corporation To Be Announced, Inc. (founded November 20, 1978).

Death

Youngfellow lived in

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, from 1989. She died on March 28, 2022, at the age of 75.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Youngfellow, Barrie 1946 births 2022 deaths Actresses from Cleveland American film actresses American television actresses American voice actresses People from Woodstock, New York 20th-century American actresses 21st-century American women