Actress Jill Jacobson, best known for her roles in “Falcon Crest” and “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” has died. She was 70 years old.
Jacobson died in Los Angeles on December 8 after a battle with a “prolonged illness”, confirmed by his friend and publicist Daniel Harry. Diversity On Sunday.
his family said a statement“Beautiful, energetic and positive to the end, she will be greatly missed by many relatives, friends and her beloved dogs Benny and Kowalsk.”
Jacobson’s manager Ben Padua told Entertainment Weekly“We are incredibly sad to say goodbye to our beautiful, soulful, hysterically funny, elegantly raunchy client, Jill Jacobson. Jill was an actress with the comedic timing from a Marx Brothers film and the Hollywood glamor from her golden age. Jill took us on lots of adventures and she was an absolute blast. Thanks, Jill. We will see you in our dreams.”
Jacobson revealed “The Jim Masters Show” In September, she battled esophageal cancer for two and a half years.
“It has been a mystery. “It kind of took me out of the game for a while,” he shared. “It was esophageal cancer. The treatment took two-two and a half years.
The actress further said, “What I went through was very serious. You can’t work, you just can’t work. And now I’m so grateful, I just want to keep going, I want to help people. It makes you want to help people.”
Jacobson grew up in Texas and attended the University of Texas at Austin, where she received a BS degree in Radio, TV and Film Performance. After graduation, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue her acting career.
Her first acting role was in the 1977 supernatural horror film “Nurse Sherry”.
Jacobson appeared on “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,” “War of the Worlds,” “Quantum Leap,” “Newhart,” “Who’s the Boss?” Appeared in the show. Murphy Brown,” “Days of Our Lives” and “Castle.”
From 1985 to 1987, she played Erin Jones in 22 episodes of “Falcon Crest”.
The CBS soap opera, which was based on a feuding wealthy family in California, also starred Jane Wyman, Robert Foxworth, Susan Sullivan, Lorenzo Lamas, David Selby and Abby Dalton. It aired for nine seasons from 1981 to 1990.
“Falcon Crest is one of those great, great times,” Jacobson said. An interview in 2008.
“It didn’t get as much attention as some of the others,” he said. “There were some great actors in it, it was fun.”
Jacobson also played LaRue Wilson in 8 episodes of the sitcom “The New Gidget” in the 1980s. The show was a sequel to the Sally Field series “Gidget”.
The actress said in a 2008 interview that she liked working on “Falcon Crest” and “The New Gidget” because “they were completely different characters.”
In addition to his acting roles, Jacobson performed stand-up comedy at The Improv and The Comedy Store in LA.
The late star also did volunteer work with the American Cancer Society.
