Star ’80s Actress Passes Away At 70

Jill Jacobson, the “Star Trek” actress known for her spitfire comedy as well as her good looks, has died at the age of 70.

The Hollywood star passed away on December 8th following “a long illness,” her friend and publicist Daniel Harary said in a statement, according to the New York Post. “Beautiful, energetic, and positive to the end, she will be deeply missed by numerous relatives, friends, and her beloved dogs Benny and Kowalsk,” her family added in a statement. Ben Padua, Jacobson’s manager, added, “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.”

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Best known for her recurring roles on “Falcon Crest” and “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” Jacobson revealed in September that she had been battling esophageal cancer for two and a half years. “It’s been a secret. Kind of took me out of the game for a while,” she shared on “The Jim Masters Show.” “It was esophageal cancer. It took like two, two and a half years of treatment. 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.”

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The Texas native got her start after majoring in radio, TV and film performance at the University of Texas at Austin, eventually moving to Los Angeles and picking up her first role in the 1977 horror flick “Nurse Sherri.” She is credited with appearances in the shows “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, Jacobson was part of the cast of “Falcon Crest,” a sultry soap opera about a California wine maker battling business rivals and competing affections from suitors. She joined other colleagues like Jane Wyman, Robert Foxworth, Susan Sullivan, Lorenzo Lamas, David Selby and Abby Dalton for two of the show’s nine seasons. “Falcon Crest’ is one of those great, great times,” Jacobson said 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.”

In addition to acting, Jacobson held her own in the comedy scene, making regular appearances at the Improv and the Comedy Store in L.A. In her limited spare time she volunteered for the American Cancer Society.

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