Quick Facts
Biography
Allyce Beasley (born July 6, 1954) is an American actress. She is known for her role as rhyming, love-struck receptionist Agnes DiPesto in the television series Moonlighting. From September 2000 to March 30, 2007, she was the announcer on Playhouse Disney, a morning lineup of programming for toddlers on Disney Channel.(replaced by Disney Junior). She also appeared briefly as a guidance counselor in the Reese Witherspoon film comedy Legally Blonde and played Coach's daughter, Lisa Pantusso, on Cheers.
Personal life
Beasley was born Allyce Tannenberg in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Harriet, a bookkeeper, and Marvin Tannenberg, a cartoonist.
Beasley was married to Christopher Sansocie from 1970 until their divorce in 1972. From 1985 until their divorce in 1988, she was married to actor Vincent Schiavelli (who died in 2005); they had one son, Andrea Schiavelli. In 1999, Beasley married for the third time to her current husband Jim Bosche.
Beasley is a breast cancer survivor.
Voice work
Beasley has also worked as a voice actress. She is probably best known for Miss Alordayne Grotke in the popular Walt Disney TV series Recess and in 1999 she appeared in the movie Stuart Little along with her co star from Recess, Dabney Coleman.
On a computer game called Pacxon, she provides the voice of Clyde's mom.
She has also voiced herself in an episode of Johnny Bravo, made a guest appearance in the television series The Wild Thornberrys, Extreme Ghostbusters, Pound Puppies, Darkwing Duck, Lloyd in Space and Duckman and the film Garfield on the Town and voiced several characters in the video game EverQuest II.
She also narrated for Playhouse Disney from 2000 until 2007.
Stage work
During the summer of 2009, she was seen onstage in The Drowsy Chaperone at Gateway Playhouse on Long Island, playing Mrs. Tottendale.
She replaced Veanne Cox in the role of 'Mme. Renaud/Mme. Dindon' in the Tony Award-winning revival of La Cage aux Folles (alongside Kelsey and Douglas Hodge) on September 14, 2010.
In the Spring of 2014, she portrayed 'Doris' in the musical Damn Yankees with Lora Lee Gayer at the legendary Goodspeed Opera House In East Haddam, CT.
Filmography
- King's Crossing (1982)
- Taxi (1982)
- Cheers (1982)
- Filthy Rich (1982)
- Remington Steele (1983)
- One Cooks, the Other Doesn't (1983) (TV)
- Garfield on the Town (1983) (TV) (voice)
- The Ratings Game (1984) (TV)
- Shaping Up (1984)
- Moonlighting (1985-1989) as Agnes DiPesto
- Late Night with David Letterman (1986)
- Dolly (1987)
- Pound Puppies (1987) (voice)
- Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation (1990)
- What a Dummy (1990)
- ALF (1990) (TV) 1 episode
- Motorama (1991)
- Superboy (1991)
- Shades of L.A. (1991)
- Darkwing Duck (1991) (voice)
- Wilder Napalm (1993)
- The Tommyknockers (1993) (TV)
- Lies and Lullabies (1993) (TV)
- Loaded Weapon 1 (1993)
- Heaven Help Us (1994)
- Magic Kid II (1994)
- Duckman (1994) (voice)
- Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story (1996)
- Rumpelstiltskin (1996)
- Touched by an Angel (1996)
- Recess (1997) (voice)
- Johnny Bravo (1997) (voice)
- Extreme Ghostbusters (1997) (voice)
- Dream with the Fishes (1997)
- The Wild Thornberrys (1998)
- The Prince and the Surfer (1999)
- Stuart Little (1999)
- Diagnosis: Murder (2000)
- 7th Heaven (2000)
- Call Me Claus (2001) (TV)
- Recess Christmas: Miracle on Third Street (2001) (V)
- Legally Blonde (2001)
- Recess: School's Out (2001) (voice)
- I Might Even Love You (2001)
- Wishcraft (2002)
- Cathedral (2002)
- The John Kerwin Show (2002)
- Lloyd in Space (2002)
- Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade (2003) (voice)
- Numbers Farm (voice) Peep
- Recess: All Growed Down (2003) (voice)
- A Foreign Affair (released on DVD as Two Brothers and a Bride) (2003)
- No Ordinary Hero (2004)
- Joan of Arcadia (2004)
- EverQuest II (2004) (VG) (voice)
- Shattered! (2008)
- As the World Turns (2009)
- Medium (2009)
- Gravity (2010)
- Bored To Death (2010)
- Gotham (2015) as Nurse Dorothy Duncan in S1.E11 Rogues' Gallery
- Law & Order Special Victims Unit (TV series) (2016) as Mrs. Weissman.