Jill Jacobson, the actress finest recognized for her roles in “Falcon Crest” and “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” has died. She was 70.
Jacobson handed away Dec. 8 in Los Angeles after a battle with “an extended sickness,” her good friend and publicist, Daniel Harary, confirmed to Variety on Sunday.
Her household mentioned in an announcement, “Beautiful, energetic, and constructive to the tip, she shall be deeply missed by quite a few family, pals, and her beloved canines Benny and Kowalsk.”
Jacobson’s supervisor, Ben Padua, advised Entertainment Weekly, “We are extremely unhappy to say goodbye to our lovely, soulful, hysterically humorous, elegantly raunchy shopper, Jill Jacobson. Jill was a complete spitfire of an actress with comedic timing straight out of a Marx Brothers’ flick and Hollywood glamor proper from its golden age. Jill took us on so many adventures and he or she was an absolute blast. Thank you, Jill. We’ll see you in our goals.”
Jacobson revealed on “The Jim Masters Show” in September that she battled esophageal most cancers for 2 and a half years.
“It’s been a secret. Kind of took me out of the sport for some time,” she shared. “It was esophageal most cancers. It took like two, two and a half years of remedy.”
The actress added, “What I went by way of was fairly intense. You can’t perform, you simply can’t perform. And now I’m so grateful, I simply need to preserve going, I need to assist individuals. It makes you need to assist individuals.”
Jacobson grew up in Texas and attended the University of Texas in Austin, the place she obtained a B.S. in Radio, TV and Film Performance. After graduating, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue her appearing profession.
Her first appearing look was within the 1977 supernatural horror movie “Nurse Sherri.”
Jacobson went on to look within the exhibits “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,” “War of the Worlds,” “Quantum Leap,” “Newhart,” “Who’s the Boss?,” “Murphy Brown,” “Days of Our Lives” and “Castle.”
From 1985 to 1987, she performed Erin Jones on 22 episodes of “Falcon Crest.”
The CBS cleaning soap opera, which adopted a feuding rich household in California, additionally starred Jane Wyman, Robert Foxworth, Susan Sullivan, Lorenzo Lamas, David Selby and Abby Dalton. It aired for 9 seasons from 1981 to 1990.
“Falcon Crest is a kind of nice, nice instances,” Jacobson mentioned in an interview in 2008.
“It didn’t get the identical consideration that a number of the others obtained,” she added. “It had some nice actors, it was enjoyable.”
Jacobson additionally performed Larue Wilson on 8 episodes of the sitcom “The New Gidget” within the Eighties. The present was a sequel to the Sally Field sequence “Gidget.”
The actress mentioned within the 2008 interview that she liked engaged on “Falcon Crest” and “The New Gidget” as a result of “they had been fully totally different characters.”
In addition to her appearing roles, Jacobson carried out stand-up comedy at The Improv and The Comedy Store in LA.
The late star additionally did volunteer work with the American Cancer Society.
