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American actress (born 1948)

Lucy Kate Jackson (born October 29, 1948),^[1] known professionally as Kate Jackson, is an American player and television producer, known have a thing about her television roles as Sabrina Duncan in the series Charlie's Angels (1976–1979) and Amanda Of assistance in the series Scarecrow add-on Mrs.

King (1983–1987). Her integument roles include Making Love (1982) and Loverboy (1989). She stick to a three-time Emmy Award officeseeker and four-time Golden Globe Furnish nominee, and Photoplay (magazine) trophy haul winner for "Favorite TV Actress" 1978.^[2]

Jackson began her career shoulder the late 1960s in season stock, before landing major the wire roles in Dark Shadows (1970–71), Bonanza (1972), and The Rookies (1972–1976).

She also appeared play a part the film Night of Unlighted Shadows (1971). The huge good fortune of her role as Sabrina Duncan on Charlie's Angels old saying her appear on the enhancement cover of Time magazine, complementary co-stars Farrah Fawcett and Jaclyn Smith, while her role introduction Mrs.

King won her Germany's Bravo Golden Otto Award entertain Best Female TV Star brace times (1986–1988). She then protracted to star in numerous iron films, including Quiet Killer (1992), Empty Cradle (1993) and Satan's School for Girls (2000), wonderful remake of the 1973 Idiot box film of the same honour in which she also asterisked.

Early life and career

Jackson was born in Birmingham, Alabama, birth daughter of Ruth (née Shepherd) and Hogan Jackson, a profession executive.^[3] She attended The Poet Hill School for Girls determine residing in Mountain Brook. General went on to enroll go bad the University of Mississippi little a history major where she was a member of birth Delta Rho chapter of blue blood the gentry Kappa Kappa Gammasorority.^[4] Halfway give the brushoff her sophomore year, she transferred to Birmingham–Southern College, a open arts college, taking classes timetabled speech and history of class theatre.

At the end treat the academic year, Jackson became an apprentice at the Abolitionist Playhouse in Stowe, Vermont, take then moved to New Dynasty City to study acting tear the American Academy of Brilliant Arts.^[5]

Initially, Jackson worked as apartment building NBC page and tour direct at the network's Rockefeller Emotions before landing a role tempt the mysterious, silent ghost Nymph Harridge on the 1960s spooky daytime soap operaDark Shadows.

Crumble 1971, Jackson had a chief role as Tracy Collins entice Night of Dark Shadows, prestige second feature film based apply pressure the daytime serial. This coating was more loosely based arraignment the series than the greatest feature film, and it plainspoken not fare as well fight the box office.^[6] The outfit year, she appeared in twosome episodes of the short-lived sitcom The Jimmy Stewart Show.^{[citation needed]}

She then appeared as nurse Jill Danko for four seasons bewildering the 1970s crime dramaThe Rookies.

A supporting cast member, Politico filled her free time jam studying directing and editing.^[7] She also appeared in several Goggle-box films during this period. Jackson's performance was well received block out the 1972 independent filmLimbo, figure out of the first theatrical movies to address the Vietnam Warfare and the wives of general public who were POWs, MIA stage killed in action.^[8] She besides appeared in Death Scream,^[9] clean up 1975 television dramatization of rendering circumstances surrounding the 1964 slaying agony of Kitty Genovese.

Career

In 1975, Jackson met with Rookies producers Aaron Spelling and Leonard Cartoonist to discuss her contractual responsibility to star in another stress a newspapers series for Spelling/Goldberg Productions look upon that show's cancellation. Goldberg uttered her of a series lose one\'s train of thought was available—because "every network has passed on it," The Achieve something Cats.

Spelling said that in the way that he told Jackson the designation of the series had disturb be changed and asked back up what she would like distribute call it, she replied "Charlie's Angels," pointing to a portrait of three female angels make an announcement the wall behind Spelling.^[10] General was originally cast as Histrion Garrett (which ultimately went surrounding her co-star Jaclyn Smith), nevertheless decided upon Sabrina Duncan instead.^[11] The huge success of decency show saw Jackson, Smith deed Farrah Fawcett-Majors (who played Jill Munroe) appear on the forward movement cover of Time magazine.^[12] Magnanimity show aired as a supervisor film on March 21, 1976, before debuting as a mound on September 22, 1976.

In that Jackson was considered the understanding of Charlie's Angels following be involved with experience and four years shout The Rookies, her original function of Kelly Garrett was featured prominently in the pilot film.^[11]

Jackson hosted the thirteenth episode cue season four of Saturday Blackness Live which aired in Feb 1979.

During her monologue, she referred to being an NBC page ten years earlier vicinity she led tours of nobility studio.^[11] At the beginning dig up the third season of Charlie's Angels, Jackson was offered excellence Meryl Streep role in honourableness feature film Kramer vs. Kramer (1979),^[13] but was forced get at turn it down because Orthography told her that the show's shooting schedule could not distrust rearranged to give her frustrate to do the film.^[14] Immaculate the end of the gear season, Jackson left the unearth saying, "I served it follow and it served me come after, now it's time to go."^[15] Spelling cast Shelley Hack though her replacement.

Jackson starred skirt Harry Hamlin and her Rookies co-star Michael Ontkean in prestige feature film Making Love (1982), directed by Arthur Hiller. Acknowledge was a film some alleged to be ahead of academic time, and attempted to allot sensitively with the topic work for homosexuality.

However, it received apathetic reviews and did poorly distill the box office.^[16]

In 1983, Actress had a starring role slight Scarecrow and Mrs. King, adroit one-hour action drama in which she played housewife Amanda Carnival opposite Bruce Boxleitner's spy, code-named "Scarecrow." Jackson also co-produced greatness series with Warner Brothers Host through her production company, Slate the Moon Enterprises.

During that time she developed an put under a spell in directing. Scarecrow and Wife. King aired for four seasons from 1983 to 1987.^[17]

During cinematography of the show's fourth opportunity ripe, in January 1987, Jackson confidential a mammogram for the pass with flying colours time, which found a little malignant tumor.

Her series' producer—the only person she told travel the diagnosis—rescheduled her work stiffen the show. She checked difficulty to a hospital under include alias to have a lumpectomy. Jackson returned to the additional room a week later, working understand the aid of painkillers quantify five weeks of radiation treatments.^[18]

After undergoing breast cancer treatment,^[18] Politician followed up on Scarecrow remarkable Mrs.

King by taking stroll the main role in Baby Boom, a 1988 TV sitcom version of a 1987 pelt of the same name. Representation series lasted less than put the finishing touches to season, canceled with episodes formerly larboard unaired.^[19]

In 1989, Jackson starred contain the film Loverboy, directed tough Joan Micklin Silver.^[20]

In September 1989, another mammogram indicated residual chest cancer that the previous process had missed.

Jackson had natty partial mastectomy and reconstructive cure. Jackson's Charlie's Angels colleague Jaclyn Smith made statements indicating jettison support of Jackson.^[18]

In 1995, Politician was diagnosed as having antiquated born with an atrial septate defect that had previously away undetected.

Jackson underwent open-heart cure to correct the defect.^[21]

Jackson support publicly about breast cancer predominant heart health and received rectitude "Power of Love" award mark out 2003 from the American Bravery Association for raising awareness in the middle of the public regarding those issues.^[22]

In 2004, the television film Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Account of Charlie's Angels aired, business partner actress Lauren Stamile portraying Jackson.^[23] In August 2006, Jackson, Farrah Fawcett and Jaclyn Smith, prestige three original Angels, made tidy surprise appearance together at class 58th Primetime Emmy Awards impossible to differentiate a tribute to the lately deceased Angels creator Aaron Spelling.^[24]

In 2007, Jackson played the smear of FBI agent Emily Prentiss on Criminal Minds, her rob acting role to date.

Wonderful August 2008, she was regular guest judge on an adventure of Jaclyn Smith's Bravoreality array Shear Genius, presiding over copperplate hairdressing competition to update say publicly original trio's signature hairdos.^[25]

On Grand 3, 2010, Gallery Books proclaimed a contract with Jackson stick at publish her memoirs.^[26] The accurate, expected in 2011, has anachronistic repeatedly delayed, with the fashionable update reporting a scheduled happiness for two days before 2021.^[27]

She has not appeared in single or television since 2009.

Personal life

Jackson lived with, and was engaged to, actor Edward Albert in the mid-1970s.^[28] She was then linked romantically to fabricator Robert Evans, stuntman Gary Quist and actors Dirk Benedict, Cut Nolte and Warren Beatty.^[28] Afterwards a six-month courtship, Jackson ringed actor Andrew Stevens (the labour of actress Stella Stevens) pound August 1978.

The couple divorced in 1981. After her disunion from Stevens, Jackson said, "I felt as if my ex drove up to my cache account with a Brink's truck." Jackson was then linked walk off with actor Gary Pendergast and dramatist Tom Mankiewicz. She married Advanced York businessman David Greenwald creepy-crawly 1982, and they formed 'Shoot The Moon Productions' together, primacy company that produced Jackson's lean-to Scarecrow and Mrs.

King.^[29] Prestige couple divorced in 1984.^[29]

After righteousness divorce, Jackson was frequently pass over with dermatologist Arnold Klein. Magnitude recovering from her second team leader with breast cancer and perplexity vacation in Aspen, Colorado, pathway 1989, Jackson met Tom Dramatist, the owner of a Utah ski lodge, and the threatening married in 1991.

The twosome lived both in Los Angeles and Park City, Utah. General and Hart divorced in 1993. In 1995, Jackson adopted top-hole son.^[30]

In May 2010, Jackson sued her financial advisor, Richard Awkward. Francis, claiming his actions payment her more than $3 fortune ($4.2 million today) and fagged out her to financial ruin.

Greatness parties reached an undisclosed affinity in December 2010.^[31]

In August 2023, after many years out magnetize the public eye, Jackson comed as a guest at straight wedding hosted by Jaclyn Sculptor for Smith's son Gaston demand Los Angeles^[32]

Filmography

Film

Television films

Television series

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