Jill Jacobson, whose appearing credit embrace two “Star Trek” exhibits, “Newhart” and “Falcon Crest” died in Los Angeles final week. She was 70.
Variety reported that the prolific performer succumbed to an unspecified “lengthy sickness” on Dec. 8. Jacobson was finest recognized for enjoying Erin Jones in 22 episodes of the primetime drama “Falcon Crest” within the mid-Nineteen Eighties.
She counted that have among the many “happiest instances” of her life in a 2021 tribute to that CBS present.
“How a lot enjoyable might one probably have?” Jacobson requested rhetorically.
Trekkies might keep in mind her from a 1989 look on “The Next Generation” and a 1996 position on “Deep Space Nine.”
She sometimes carried out stand-up comedy routines The Improv and The Comedy Store in Los Angeles, in response to Variety. IMDb says her comedic endeavours included a small half in Ron Howard’s “Splash” starring Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah.
“We are extremely unhappy to say goodbye to our lovely, soulful, hysterically humorous, elegantly raunchy shopper, Jill Jacobson,” her supervisor Ben Padua instructed Entertainment Weekly.
Jacobson married fellow “Murphy Brown” actor Paul Dorman in 2001. They each had small components on episodes of that Emmy Award-winning sitcom.
Publicist Dan Harary instructed the Hollywood Reporter the family members the Texas native leaves behind embrace her canines, Benny and Kowalski.
