Sandra Peabody

Sandra Peabody (born January 11, 1948) is an American producer, writer, acting coach, talent agent, and retired actress. Trained in the Meisner technique directly from acting teacher Sanford Meisner, she is primarily known for her early influential scream queen roles in 1970s horror films and her subsequent career as an award-winning children's television producer. She received accolades during her producing career, including an Emmy Award and CableACE Award. Peabody began her career as a teen actress in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. First appearing in the professional stage production Enter Laughing (1965) as Wanda during her senior year of high school, Peabody later forayed into acting in feature films, such as Misfit (1965) and The Horse Killer (1966). In 1966, Peabody began studying drama at Carnegie Mellon University and Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre with Meisner. Peabody appeared on stage in The Odd Couple, Stop the World – I Want to Get Off (both 1969), and the off-Broadway play Tarot (1970), which opened at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and had roles in films such as Love-In '72 (1971) as the hippie Linda before reaching fame when Wes Craven cast her as Mari Collingwood in his controversial directorial... ()