Jill Jacobson, the actress finest identified 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 “a long illness,” her good friend and publicist, Daniel Harary, confirmed to Selection on Sunday.
Her household stated in a press release, “Beautiful, energetic, and positive to the end, she will be deeply missed by numerous relatives, friends, and her beloved dogs Benny and Kowalsk.”
Jacobson’s supervisor, Ben Padua, instructed Leisure Weekly, “We are incredibly sad to say goodbye to our beautiful, soulful, hysterically funny, elegantly raunchy client, Jill Jacobson. Jill was a total spitfire of an actress with comedic timing straight out of a Marx Brothers’ flick and Hollywood glamor right from its golden age. Jill took us on so many adventures and she was an absolute blast. Thank you, Jill. We’ll see you in our dreams.”
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 game for a while,” she shared. “It was esophageal cancer. It took like two, two and a half years of treatment.”
The actress added, “What I went through was pretty intense. You can’t function, you just can’t function. 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 College of Texas in Austin, the place she acquired a B.S. in Radio, TV and Movie Efficiency. After graduating, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue her performing profession.
Her first performing look was within the 1977 supernatural horror movie “Nurse Sherri.”
Jacobson went on to seem within the reveals “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 one of those great, great times,” Jacobson stated in an interview in 2008.
“It didn’t get the same attention that some of the others got,” she added. “It had some great actors, it was fun.”
Jacobson additionally performed Larue Wilson on 8 episodes of the sitcom “The New Gidget” within the Nineteen Eighties. The present was a sequel to the Sally Area collection “Gidget.”
The actress stated within the 2008 interview that she beloved engaged on “Falcon Crest” and “The New Gidget” as a result of “they were completely different characters.”
Along with her performing roles, Jacobson carried out stand-up comedy at The Improv and The Comedy Retailer in LA.
The late star additionally did volunteer work with the American Most cancers Society.
