Jill Jacobson, the actress recognized for appearances in reveals like Star Trek: The Subsequent Technology and Who’s the Boss? has died. She was 70.
In line with buddy and publicist Dan Harary, Jacobson died “after an extended sickness” on Sunday, Dec. 8 at Culver West Well being Heart in Culver Metropolis, California.
“Lovely, energetic, and constructive to the top, she will probably be deeply missed by quite a few family, mates, and her beloved canine Benny and Kowalski,” reads a press release from her household.
The actress, who obtained awards for her work as a spokesperson for the American Most cancers Society, revealed earlier this yr that she overcame a two-and-a-half-year battle with esophageal most cancers that “type of took me out of the sport for some time.”
She defined to Jim Masters, “What I went by was fairly intense. You may’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.”
QUANTUM LEAP, from left: Jill Jacobson, Scott Bakula, ‘Thou Shalt Not… – February 2, 1974’, season 2, ep. 7, aired 11/15/1989, (1989-1993). ph: Fred Sabine /© NBC /courtesy Everett Assortment
Jacobson’s The New Gidget co-star and shut lifelong buddy Caryn Richman additionally remembered Jacobson in a press release. “Jill’s comedian timing was sensible. And her enthusiasm and love of life made our time collectively on set joyful,” stated Richman.
Jacobson appeared in such TV reveals as Days of Our Lives, Falcon Crest, Quantum Leap, Murphy Brown and Star Trek: Deep Area 9, Arli$$, Get together Down, Hung and Fort, in addition to a number of indie movies because the ’70s.
After graduating from College of Texas in Austin with a BS in Radio-TV-Movie/Efficiency, the Texas native made her onscreen debut within the title function of director Al Adamson’s 1977 cult horror movie Nurse Sherri. She went on to seem in such motion pictures as Dangerous Georgia Highway (1977), Forbidden Love (1982), Child Sister (1983) and Splash (1984).
Along with a number of stage appearances, Jacobson additionally carried out stand-up comedy at The Improv and The Comedy Retailer in Los Angeles.
