Jill Jacobson, an actress finest identified for her roles on “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and the primetime cleaning soap opera “Falcon Crest,” has died. She was 70.
Jacobson died Dec. 8 in Los Angeles, California, at Cedars-Sinai’s Culver West Health Center, in line with her publicist and longtime buddy Daniel Hararay per studies from Variety and The Hollywood Reporter.
Harary informed the retailers the actress died after a battle with “an extended sickness.” Her supervisor, Ben Padua, additionally confirmed the information to Entertainment Weekly.
“We are extremely unhappy to say goodbye to our lovely, soulful, hysterically humorous, elegantly raunchy shopper, Jill Jacobson,” Padua stated in a press release to EW. “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.”
Jacobson started her appearing profession with the title function in “Nurse Sherri,” a 1977 low-budget slasher horror. She went on to behave in “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,” “Days of Our Lives,” “Castle,” “Hung,” “Newhart” and “Who’s the Boss?”
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Jacobson appeared in over 20 episodes of the CBS cleaning soap opera, “Falcon Crest,” created by Earl Hammer Jr. which aired for 9 seasons. On “Falcon Crest,” Jacobson performed Erin Jones.
At the identical time, Jacobson appeared on eight episodes of “The New Gidget,” the place she performed the character of Larue Wilson. Her final credited function was within the 2020 collection “Etheria.”
Before shifting to Los Angeles to pursue an appearing profession, Jacobson grew up in Beaumont, Texas, and Dallas, per The Hollywood Reporter. Jacobson obtained a B.S. in Radio, TV and Film Performance on the University of Texas in Austin.
“Jill took us on so many adventures and he or she was an absolute blast,” Jacobson’s supervisor Padua concluded the assertion. “Thank you, Jill. We’ll see you in our goals.”
