Jill Jacobson, whose acting credits include two “Star Trek” shows, “Newhart” and “Falcon Crest” died in Los Angeles last week. She was 70.
Variety reported that the prolific performer succumbed to an unspecified “long illness” on Dec. 8. Jacobson was best known for playing Erin Jones in 22 episodes of the primetime drama “Falcon Crest” in the mid-1980s.
She counted that experience among the “happiest times” of her life in a 2021 tribute to that CBS show.
“How much fun could one possibly have?” Jacobson asked rhetorically.
Trekkies may remember her from a 1989 appearance on “The Next Generation” and a 1996 role on “Deep Space Nine.”
She occasionally performed stand-up comedy routines The Improv and The Comedy Store in Los Angeles, according to Variety. IMDb says her comedic endeavours included a small part in Ron Howard’s “Splash” starring Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah.
“We are incredibly sad to say goodbye to our beautiful, soulful, hysterically funny, elegantly raunchy client, Jill Jacobson,” her manager Ben Padua told Entertainment Weekly.
Jacobson married fellow “Murphy Brown” actor Paul Dorman in 2001. They both had small parts on episodes of that Emmy Award-winning sitcom.
Publicist Dan Harary told the Hollywood Reporter the loved ones the Texas native leaves behind include her dogs, Benny and Kowalski.
