The Falcon Crest and Star Trek actress has died aged 70

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Jill Jacobson, the actress best known for her roles in “Falcon Crest” and “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” has died. She was 70.

Jacobson died Dec. 8 in Los Angeles after a “long illness,” her friend and publicist, Daniel Harary, confirmed to Oppo. Black on Sunday.

Jill Jacobson at Cops 4 Causes’ annual Fallen Heroes benefit in 2011. FilmMagic

Her family agreed a statement“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 manager, Ben Padua, said Weekly entertainment“We are incredibly sad to say goodbye to our beautiful, soulful, hilarious, elegantly sassy client, Jill Jacobson. Jill was a total firebrand of an actress with comic timing right out of a Marx Brothers movie and Hollywood glamor right out of its golden age. Jill took us on so many adventures and she was an absolute blast. See you in our dreams.”

Jill Jacobson in “Falcon Crest”. Warner Brothers
Jill Jacobson in “Star Trek”. Paramount

Jacobson revealed on “The Jim Masters Show” in September that she battled esophageal cancer for two and a half years.

“It’s been a secret. It kind of took me out of the game for a while,” she shared. “It was esophageal cancer. It took about 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 me want to help people .”

Jill Jacobson at the premiere of “Method To The Madness Of Jerry Lewis” in 2011. FilmMagic

Jacobson grew up in Texas and attended the University of Texas at Austin, where she received a bachelor’s degree in radio, television and film. After graduating, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue her acting career.

Her first acting appearance was in the 1977 supernatural horror film “Nurse Sherri”.

Jacobson went on to appear on 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.”

Jill Jacobson and Scott Bakula in “Quantum Leap” in 1989. NBC

From 1985 to 1987, she played Erin Jones in 22 episodes of “Falcon Crest”.

The CBS soap opera, which followed a feuding wealthy family in California, also starred Jane Wyman, Robert Foxworth, Susan Sullivan, Lorenzo Lamas, David Selby and Abby Dalton. It aired for nine seasons from 1981 to 1990.

Jill Jacobson at the premiere of “A Week In London” in 2016. Getty Images

“Falcon Crest is one of those big, big times,” Jacobson said 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 also played Larue Wilson in 8 episodes of the sitcom “The New Gidget” in the 1980s. The show was a sequel to the Sally Field series “Gidget”.

Jill Jacobson at BET’s premiere party for “The Game” and “Let’s Stay Together” in 2012. FilmMagic

The actress said in the 2008 interview that she loved working on “Falcon Crest” and “The New Gidget” because “they were completely different characters.”

In addition to his acting roles, Jacobson performed stand-up comedy at The Improv and The Comedy Store in LA.

The late star also did volunteer work with the American Cancer Society.