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Kate Jackson

Kate Jackson

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Kate Jackson (born October 29, 1948) is an American actress, director
Television director
A television director directs the activities involved in making a television episode.-Duties:The duties of a television director vary depending on whether the production is live or filmed/taped .In both types of productions, the director is responsible for supervising the placement of cameras ,...

, and producer
Television producer
The primary role of a television producer is to control all aspects of production, ranging from show idea development and cast hiring to shoot supervision and fact-checking...

. She is a three-time Emmy Award
Emmy Award
The Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards , Grammy Awards and Tony Awards .They are presented in various...

 nominee, twice in the Best Actress category and once in the Best Supporting Actress category. She has also been nominated for several Golden Globe Awards, and has won the title of Favorite Television Actress in England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

, and Favorite Television Star in Germany several times for her work in the television series, Scarecrow and Mrs. King
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
Scarecrow and Mrs. King is an American television series that aired from October 3, 1983, to May 28, 1987 on CBS. The show starred Kate Jackson and Bruce Boxleitner.-Synopsis:...

.

She also co-produced that series through her production company, Shoot the Moon Enterprises Ltd.
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Kate Jackson (born October 29, 1948) is an American actress, director
Television director
A television director directs the activities involved in making a television episode.-Duties:The duties of a television director vary depending on whether the production is live or filmed/taped .In both types of productions, the director is responsible for supervising the placement of cameras ,...

, and producer
Television producer
The primary role of a television producer is to control all aspects of production, ranging from show idea development and cast hiring to shoot supervision and fact-checking...

. She is a three-time Emmy Award
Emmy Award
The Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards , Grammy Awards and Tony Awards .They are presented in various...

 nominee, twice in the Best Actress category and once in the Best Supporting Actress category. She has also been nominated for several Golden Globe Awards, and has won the title of Favorite Television Actress in England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

, and Favorite Television Star in Germany several times for her work in the television series, Scarecrow and Mrs. King
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
Scarecrow and Mrs. King is an American television series that aired from October 3, 1983, to May 28, 1987 on CBS. The show starred Kate Jackson and Bruce Boxleitner.-Synopsis:...

.

She also co-produced that series through her production company, Shoot the Moon Enterprises Ltd. with Warner Brothers Television. She is perhaps best-known for her role as Sabrina Duncan
Sabrina Duncan
Sabrina Duncan is one of fictional private detectives in the 1976-1981 television series Charlie's Angels. She was portrayed by Kate Jackson in the first three seasons of the show...

 in the hugely popular 1970s television series Charlie's Angels
Charlie's Angels
Charlie's Angels is a television series about three women who work for a private investigation agency, and is one of the first shows to showcase women in roles traditionally reserved for men. The series was broadcast in the USA on the ABC Television Network from 1976 to 1981 and was one of the most...

. Jackson has starred in a number of theatrical and TV films, and played the lead role on the short-lived television adaptation of the film Baby Boom
Baby Boom (TV series)
Baby Boom is an American comedy television series starring Kate Jackson. The series is based on the 1987 film Baby Boom. The pilot premiered September 10, 1988 on NBC, and the series began on November 2, 1988.-Cast:*Kate Jackson as J. C...

.

Jackson is a breast cancer
Breast cancer
Breast cancer is a cancer that starts in the breast, usually in the inner lining of the milk ducts or lobules. There are different types of breast cancer, with different stages , aggressiveness, and genetic makeup. With best treatment, 10-year disease-free survival varies from 98% to 10%...

 survivor following two bouts with the disease in the late 1980s, and she serves as a spokeswoman for the American Heart Association
American Heart Association
The American Heart Association is a non-profit organization in the United States that fosters appropriate cardiac care in an effort to reduce disability and deaths caused by cardiovascular disease and stroke. It is headquartered in Dallas, Texas...

.

Early life and career


Jackson was born in Birmingham, Alabama
Birmingham, Alabama
Birmingham is the largest city in the state of Alabama in the United States. It is the county seat of Jefferson County and includes part of Shelby County. According to a 2007 estimate, the city had a population of 229,800 The Birmingham-Hoover Metropolitan Area, as of the 2008 census estimates,...

 as Lucy Kate Jackson, the daughter of Ruth (née Shepherd) and Hogan Jackson, a business executive. She attended The Brooke Hill School for Girls and then went on to the University of Mississippi
University of Mississippi
The University of Mississippi, also known as Ole Miss, is a public, coeducational research university located in Oxford, Mississippi. Founded in 1848, the school is composed of the main campus in Oxford and three branch campuses located in Booneville, Tupelo, and Southaven...

 in Oxford
Oxford, Mississippi
Oxford is a city and the county seat of Lafayette County, Mississippi, United States. Founded in 1835, it was named after the British university city of Oxford in hopes of having the state university located there, which it did successfully attract....

, where she was a member of the Delta Rho chapter of the Kappa Kappa Gamma
Kappa Kappa Gamma
Kappa Kappa Gamma is a college women's fraternity, founded at Monmouth College, in Monmouth, Illinois. Although the groundwork of the organization was developed as early as 1869, the 1876 Convention voted on October 13, 1870 as Founders Day, because no earlier charter date could be determined...

 sorority, but during her sophomore year at the University of Mississippi
University of Mississippi
The University of Mississippi, also known as Ole Miss, is a public, coeducational research university located in Oxford, Mississippi. Founded in 1848, the school is composed of the main campus in Oxford and three branch campuses located in Booneville, Tupelo, and Southaven...

, she moved to New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States, and the center of the New York metropolitan area, which is among the most populous urban areas in the world. A leading global city, New York exerts a powerful influence over worldwide commerce, finance, culture, fashion and entertainment...

 to study acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts
American Academy of Dramatic Arts
The American Academy of Dramatic Arts is a fully accredited two-year conservatory with campuses located at 120 Madison Avenue in New York City and 1336 North La Brea Avenue in Hollywood .The oldest acting school in...

.

Jackson worked as an NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices in Burbank,California...

 page at the network's Rockefeller Center
Rockefeller Center
Rockefeller Center is a complex of 19 commercial buildings covering between 48th and 51st streets in New York City. Built by the Rockefeller family, it is located in the center of Midtown Manhattan, spanning the area between Fifth Avenue and Seventh Avenue. It was declared a National Historic...

 studios and did summer stock
Summer Stock
For the article about the theatre genre, see Summer stock theatre.Summer Stock is an MGM musical made in 1950. The film was directed by Charles Walters and stars Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Eddie Bracken, Gloria DeHaven, Marjorie Main, and Phil Silvers...

 in Vermont before landing a small role as the mysterious, silent ghost Daphne Harridge on the 1960s supernatural daytime quasi-soap opera
Soap opera
A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on television or radio. The name "soap opera" stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers such as Procter & Gamble,...

 Dark Shadows
Dark Shadows
Dark Shadows is a Gothic soap opera that originally aired weekdays on the ABC television network, from June 27, 1966 to April 2, 1971. The show was created by Dan Curtis, who tells of a dream he had in which a girl takes a long train ride to visit a large mansion. The story "bible," which was...

.
In 1971, Jackson had a starring role as Tracy Collins in Night of Dark Shadows
Night of Dark Shadows
Night of Dark Shadows is a 1971 horror film by Dan Curtis. It is the sequel to House of Dark Shadows. It centers on the story of Quentin Collins and his bride Tracy at the Collinwood Mansion in Collinsport, Maine....

, the second feature film based on the daytime serial. She was joined by her Dark Shadows castmates Lara Parker
Lara Parker
Lara Parker is an American television and film actress best known for her role as Angelique on the cult ABC-TV serial Dark Shadows which aired from to...

, David Selby
David Selby
David Lynn Selby is an American character and stage actor. He has worked in movies, soap operas and television. The naturally black-headed Selby is best known for playing the roles of Quentin Collins on the ABC-TV cult serial, Dark Shadows , as Jane Wyman's evil and compassionate TV son, Richard...

, Grayson Hall
Grayson Hall
Grayson Hall was an American television, film and stage actress. She was widely regarded for her avant garde theatrical performances in the 1960s-80s. Hall was nominated in 1964 for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for the John Huston film The Night of the Iguana...

, Nancy Barrett
Nancy Barrett
Nancy Barrett, born , is an American actress. She is best known for her portrayal of "Carolyn Stoddard" in the popular 1960s Gothic soap opera Dark Shadows....

, John Karlen
John Karlen
John Karlen is a character actor best known for playing Willie Loomis and other characters on the ABC cult serial Dark Shadows, in various episodes between 206 and 1245, which aired from 1966-1971. In 1971 Karlen starred as the male lead in another vampire cuilt classic "Daughters of Darkness"...

, and Thayer David
Thayer David
Thayer David was a film and television actor. He was best known for his work on the cult ABC serial Dark Shadows and as the fight promoter George Jergens in the Oscar-winning movie Rocky in 1976...

. This movie was more loosely based on the series than House of Dark Shadows
House of Dark Shadows
House of Dark Shadows is a 1970 feature-length horror film by Dan Curtis based on his Dark Shadows television series. Filming took place at Lyndhurst in Tarrytown, New York with additional footage at nearby Sleepy Hollow Cemetery...

was, and it did not fare as well at the box office as the first film did. That year she worked also with James Stewart
James Stewart (actor)
James Maitland "Jimmy" Stewart was an American film and stage actor, best known for his self-effacing persona. Over the course of his career, he starred in many films widely considered classics and was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning one in competition and receiving one Lifetime...

 in two episodes of The Jimmy Stewart Show
The Jimmy Stewart Show
The Jimmy Stewart Show was a television series starring James Stewart as a professor at a small town university. Twenty-four episodes of the show were broadcast in the 1971–1972 season on the NBC network's Sunday night schedule [8:30-9pm], under the sponsorship of Procter & Gamble....

, a sit-com which lasted one season.

She then appeared as nurse Jill Danko, wife of a character played by Sam Melville
Sam Melville (actor)
Sam Melville was an American actor. He is noted for his myriad of guest roles on many popular shows of the 1960s and 1970s, and is best known for his roles of Officer Mike Danko in four seasons of Aaron Spelling's The Rookies and of Bear in the classic surfing movie, Big Wednesday...

, for four seasons on the 1970s crime drama The Rookies
The Rookies
The Rookies is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1972 until 1976. It followed the exploits of three rookie police officers in an unidentified city for the fictitious Southern California Police Department .-History:...

. A supporting cast member, Jackson filled her free time by studying directing and editing. She also appeared in several TV films during this period. Jackson's performance was well received in the 1972 independent film
Independent film
An independent film, or indie film, is a film that is produced outside of any major film studio. Originally, this term denoted independence from Paramount Pictures, MGM, Twentieth Century Fox, Warner Bros., RKO, Universal Pictures, United Artists, and Columbia Pictures, the 8 major studio entities...

 Limbo, one of the first theatrical films to address the Vietnam War
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War or the Second Indochina War was a Cold War military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1959 to 30 April 1975...

 and the wives of soldiers who were POWs, MIA
Missing in action
Missing in action is a status assigned to armed services personnel who are reported missing during active service. They may have been killed, wounded, become a prisoner of war, or deserted. If deceased, neither their remains nor grave can be positively identified...

 or killed in action (KIA). She also appeared in an all-star ensemble cast in Death Scream
Death Scream
Death Scream is a made-for-television film first aired in the USA on September 26, 1975. The film is based on an actual event concerning the real-life account of "a young woman whose murder was witnessed by fifteen of her neighbors who did nothing to help and refused to cooperate with the...

, a 1975 television dramatization of the circumstances surrounding a real-life 1964 murder as reported in a sensational article in the New York Times.

Charlie's Angels


In 1975, she met with Rookies producers Aaron Spelling
Aaron Spelling
Aaron Spelling was an American film and television producer. As of 2009, Spelling's company holds the record as the most prolific television writer, with 218 producer and executive producer credits.-Early life:...

 and Leonard Goldberg
Leonard Goldberg
Leonard J. Goldberg is an American film producer and television producer. He has his own production company, Mandy Films.He has served as Head of Programming for ABC, and was president of 20th Century Fox...

 to discuss her contractual obligation to star in another television series for Spelling/Goldberg Productions upon that show's cancellation. Goldberg told her of a series that was available — because "every network has passed on it" — titled The Alley Cats. Spelling said that when he told Jackson the title of the series had to be changed and asked her what she would like to call it, she replied, Charlie's Angels, pointing to a picture of three female angels on the wall behind Spelling.

At the beginning of the third season of Charlie's Angels
Charlie's Angels
Charlie's Angels is a television series about three women who work for a private investigation agency, and is one of the first shows to showcase women in roles traditionally reserved for men. The series was broadcast in the USA on the ABC Television Network from 1976 to 1981 and was one of the most...

, Jackson was offered the Meryl Streep
Meryl Streep
Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep is an American actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film. She is widely regarded as one of the most talented and respected movie actors of the modern era....

 role in the feature film Kramer vs Kramer (1979), but was forced to turn it down because Spelling told her that they were unable to rearrange the hit show's shooting schedule to give her time off to do the film. At the end of the third season, Jackson left the show saying, "I served it well and it served me well, now it's time to go." Privately, she told friends that if Spelling had not taken the movie opportunity away from her she "would have stayed with the series forever".

Charlie's Angels
Charlie's Angels
Charlie's Angels is a television series about three women who work for a private investigation agency, and is one of the first shows to showcase women in roles traditionally reserved for men. The series was broadcast in the USA on the ABC Television Network from 1976 to 1981 and was one of the most...

has been on the air in reruns somewhere continuously around the world since its debut in 1976. In 2004, the television film Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Charlie's Angels aired, with actress Lauren Stamile
Lauren Stamile
Lauren Stamile is an actress best known for her recurring role as 'Nurse Rose' on the ABC series Grey's Anatomy. She had over 30 credits to her name prior to this role, including starring as Kate Jackson in the television movie Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of 'Charlie's Angels...

 portraying Jackson. In August 2006, Jackson, Farrah Fawcett and Jaclyn Smith, the three original Angels, appeared together in a surprise appearance at the Emmy Awards in a tribute to Aaron Spelling who had recently died. Holding hands, they were greeted with applause and smiling faces in the audience at the Shrine Auditorium
Shrine Auditorium
The Shrine Auditorium is a landmark large-event venue in Los Angeles, California, USA. It is also the headquarters of the Al Malaikah Temple, a division of the Shriners.-History:...

. In 1982, Jackson starred opposite her Rookies co-star, Michael Ontkean
Michael Ontkean
Michael Ontkean is a Canadian actor.Ontkean was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, the son of Muriel , an actress, and Leonard Ontkean, a boxer and actor....

, and Harry Hamlin
Harry Hamlin
Harry Robinson Hamlin is an American film and television actor, known for his role as Perseus in the 1981 fantasy film Clash of the Titans, and as Michael Kuzak in the legal drama series L.A...

 in the feature film Making Love
Making Love
Making Love is a 1982 film about a married man coming to terms with his homosexuality and the love triangle that develops around him, his wife and another man...

, directed by Arthur Hiller
Arthur Hiller
Arthur Hiller, O.C. is a Canadian film director.-Early life:Hiller was born in Edmonton, Alberta, and graduated from University College, University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1947, a Master of Arts degree in psychology in 1950 and received an honorary Doctor of Laws in...

. It was a movie some considered to be ahead of its time, and attempted to deal sensitively with the issue of homosexuality. Howevever, it received tepid reviews, and it did poorly at the box office.

Scarecrow and Mrs. King


As soon as she was free of Charlie's Angels, Jackson had made what was for the time a whopping $6,000,000 deal with CBS to star in a comedy series. She elected instead to accept the starring role in Scarecrow and Mrs. King
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
Scarecrow and Mrs. King is an American television series that aired from October 3, 1983, to May 28, 1987 on CBS. The show starred Kate Jackson and Bruce Boxleitner.-Synopsis:...

, a one-hour action comedy in which she played housewife Amanda King opposite Bruce Boxleitner
Bruce Boxleitner
Bruce William Boxleitner is an American actor and science fiction and suspense writer. He attended Prospect High School in Mount Prospect, Illinois, and the Goodman Theater School of Drama of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois.-Television:He is best known for his leading roles in the...

's spy, code-named "Scarecrow". Jackson also co-produced the series with Warner Brothers Television through her production company, Shoot the Moon Enterprises. It was during this series that she developed a keen interest in directing. When asked on the set one afternoon "What do you do tomorrow?", Jackson replied, "I don't work, I just direct." Scarecrow and Mrs. King was on the air from 1983-1987, The series was strong enough in the ratings that it crushed its NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices in Burbank,California...

 competition, Boone
Boone (TV series)
Boone is a 13-week dramatic television series which was broadcast on NBC from 1983–1984. It starred, principally, Tom Byrd and Barry Corbin. Byrd played teenager Boone Sawyer, who aspired for a career in rock and roll music, despite the advice of his stern father, Merit Sawyer, played by Corbin,...

, starring Tom Byrd
Tom Byrd (actor)
Thomas Byrd, usually known as Tom Byrd, is an American actor, born in the Philippine Islands on May 18, 1960.-Career:Byrd was reared in Florida, who has primarily appeared on network television between 1981 and 2000...

 and Barry Corbin
Barry Corbin
Leonard Barrie "Barry" Corbin is an American actor with more than one hundred film, television and video game credits.-Career:...

.

During filming of the show's fourth season, in January 1987, Jackson elected to receive a mammogram for the first time, a test which led to the diagnosis of a small malignant tumor. This time, her series' producer—the only person she told about the diagnosis—worked with her to reschedule her work on the show. Checking into a hospital under an alias, her course of action was to undergo a lumpectomy
Lumpectomy
Lumpectomy is a common surgical procedure designed to remove a discrete lump, usually a tumor, benign or malignant, from an affected man or woman's breast...

. Jackson returned to the series a week later, working with the aid of painkillers through five weeks of radiation treatments.

Later career


Receiving a "clean bill of health", Jackson followed up the cancelled Scarecrow and Mrs. King by taking on the main role in Baby Boom
Baby Boom (TV series)
Baby Boom is an American comedy television series starring Kate Jackson. The series is based on the 1987 film Baby Boom. The pilot premiered September 10, 1988 on NBC, and the series began on November 2, 1988.-Cast:*Kate Jackson as J. C...

, a 1988 TV sitcom version of the original movie
Baby Boom (film)
Baby Boom is a 1987 comedy film starring Diane Keaton. The film also launched a subsequent television show starring Kate Jackson, running from 1988 to 1989. The original music score was composed by Bill Conti and the cinematography was by William A. Fraker.-Plot:J.C...

 starring Diane Keaton
Diane Keaton
Diane Keaton is an American film actress, director, and producer. Keaton began her career on stage, and made her screen debut in 1970...

, but it only lasted one season. In 1989, she starred in the film Loverboy
Loverboy (1989 film)
Loverboy is a 1989 American comedy film starring Patrick Dempsey, Kirstie Alley, and Carrie Fisher.-Plot:Randy Bodek is a rebellious slacker in college, living with his girlfriend Jenny . His father, furious over Randy's lack of direction or work ethic, pulls the funding for college and requires...

 playing Patrick Dempsey
Patrick Dempsey
Patrick Galen Dempsey is an American actor and race car driver, known for his role as neurosurgeon Dr. Derek Shepherd on the medical drama Grey's Anatomy. He has also recently appeared in several films, including Sweet Home Alabama, The Emperor's Club, Freedom Writers, Enchanted and Made of...

's mother. She had taken the job in order to work with the director, Joan Micklin Silver
Joan Micklin Silver
Joan Micklin Silver is an American director.She was born in Omaha, Nebraska and received her B.A. From Sarah Lawrence College....

, having admired the work Silver had done on the film Hester Street.

In September 1989, another mammogram indicated residual breast cancer
Breast cancer
Breast cancer is a cancer that starts in the breast, usually in the inner lining of the milk ducts or lobules. There are different types of breast cancer, with different stages , aggressiveness, and genetic makeup. With best treatment, 10-year disease-free survival varies from 98% to 10%...

 which the previous operation had missed. This time the course of action was a partial mastectomy and reconstructive surgery. “The range of emotions you go through is amazing,” she says. “But I made a conscious decision to be positive.”
Friend and former Charlie's Angels co-star Jaclyn Smith cancelled a trip to New York City, meeting Jackson at her doctor’s office before she checked into the hospital. “I’d been crying before I got there,” says Smith. “Then I saw Kate, and she had a smile on her face. She said, 'We’ve gotten through other things, like divorces, and we’ll get though this.' And we did.”
When Jackson awoke after surgery, “The first thing I heard was good news. My lymph nodes were clean.”
Back at home she read medical journals, switched to a macrobiotic diet and came to terms with her reconstructive surgery. “I’m never going to have the perfect body,” she says. “I’m not into facelifts and lip poufs. But I can wear a strapless evening gown, a bustier or whatever is required for a part.”

Jackson starred in several TV movies over the next several years, while working for breast cancer awareness. In 1995, on the heels of a night filming schedule on location, she checked herself into an Alabama hospital for tests due to a feeling of malaise and an inability to sleep. After several tests, Dr. Gerald Pohost, now head of cardiology
Cardiology
Cardiology is a specialty dealing with disorders of the heart and blood vessels. The field includes diagnosis and treatment of congenital heart defects, coronary artery disease, heart failure, valvular heart disease and electrophysiology. Physicians specializing in this field of medicine are...

 at U.S.C., diagnosed that Jackson had been born with an atrial septal defect
Atrial septal defect
Atrial septal defect is a form of congenital heart defect that enables blood flow between the left and right atria via the interatrial septum. The interatrial septum is the tissue that divides the right and left atria...

, a tiny hole in her heart which had previously gone undetected despite Jackson's active lifestyle. She underwent open heart surgery
Open Heart Surgery
Open Heart Surgery was released on August 8, 2000 by rock band Virginwool. The band signed to Breaking/Atlantic Records after initially beginning signed to Universal Records. The album was produced and mixed by Brad Wood....

 to correct the defect, although as cardiologist Dr. P. K. Shah related in a February 3, 2006, appearance with Jackson on Larry King Live
Larry King Live
Larry King Live is an American talk show hosted by Larry King on CNN. The show debuted in 1985, and is CNN's most watched program, with over one million viewers nightly.The show broadcasts from CNN's Los Angeles studios...

, the current treatment no longer involves surgery. Jackson has dedicated herself to speaking out on the subjects of breast cancer and heart health and in 2003 was awarded the "Power of Love" award by the American Heart Association
American Heart Association
The American Heart Association is a non-profit organization in the United States that fosters appropriate cardiac care in an effort to reduce disability and deaths caused by cardiovascular disease and stroke. It is headquartered in Dallas, Texas...

 for her work.

Since then, Jackson has appeared in TV movies and has made numerous guest appearances on TV. However, she dialed down her professional pursuits when her son, Charles Taylor Jackson, was adopted in 1995. She stated at the time, "I don't see how I can go about a directing career and be a good mom at the same time. And if I'm not a good mom, I don't think it matters much what else I do well."

Jackson has a recurring role on Criminal Minds
Criminal Minds
Criminal Minds is an American crime drama series that premiered September 22, 2005 on CBS. The series follows the adventures of a team of profilers from the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit at Quantico, Virginia. Criminal Minds differs from many criminal system procedural dramas by focusing on the...

. In August 2008, she was a guest judge on an episode of fellow Angel Jaclyn Smith
Jaclyn Smith
Jaclyn Ellen Smith is an American actress. She is best known for the role of Kelly Garrett in the television series Charlie's Angels, and was the only original female lead to remain with the series for its complete run...

's Bravo reality series Shear Genius
Shear Genius
Shear Genius is an American reality television series on the Bravo network that focuses on hair styling. Contestants engage in weekly elimination competitions until a winner is determined. The show is hosted by Jaclyn Smith....

, presiding over a hairdressing competition to update the original trio's signature hairdos.

Personal life


Jackson lived with actor Edward Albert, Jr. in the early 1970s. In 1978, Jackson married fellow Southerner, the actor/producer Andrew Stevens
Andrew Stevens
Andrew Stevens is an American film producer and director and actor.-Early Life:...

, who is seven years her junior and the son of actress Stella Stevens
Stella Stevens
Stella Stevens is an American film, television and stage actress, who began her acting career in 1959. She is a film producer, director and pin-up girl.-Early life:...

; they divorced in 1980. She married David Greenwald in 1982, but they divorced two years later. Her third marriage was to stuntman Tom Hart in 1991, but they also divorced two years later.

Awards and nominations


Emmy Awards
  • 1977: Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series (nomination) for Charlie's Angels
    Charlie's Angels
    Charlie's Angels is a television series about three women who work for a private investigation agency, and is one of the first shows to showcase women in roles traditionally reserved for men. The series was broadcast in the USA on the ABC Television Network from 1976 to 1981 and was one of the most...

  • 1977: Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Movie or Special (nomination) for James at 15
    James at 15
    James at 15 is an American drama series that aired on NBC in the 1977-1978 season. The series was preceded by the 1977 made-for-TV movie James at 15, intended as a pilot for the series...

  • 1978: Outstanding Lead Actress for a Single Appearance in a Drama or Comedy Series (nomination) for Charlie's Angels
    Charlie's Angels
    Charlie's Angels is a television series about three women who work for a private investigation agency, and is one of the first shows to showcase women in roles traditionally reserved for men. The series was broadcast in the USA on the ABC Television Network from 1976 to 1981 and was one of the most...

    .


Golden Globe
  • 1977: Best TV Actress - Drama (nomination) - Charlie's Angels
    Charlie's Angels
    Charlie's Angels is a television series about three women who work for a private investigation agency, and is one of the first shows to showcase women in roles traditionally reserved for men. The series was broadcast in the USA on the ABC Television Network from 1976 to 1981 and was one of the most...

  • 1978: Best TV Actress - Drama (nomination) - Charlie's Angels
    Charlie's Angels
    Charlie's Angels is a television series about three women who work for a private investigation agency, and is one of the first shows to showcase women in roles traditionally reserved for men. The series was broadcast in the USA on the ABC Television Network from 1976 to 1981 and was one of the most...

  • 1979: Best TV Actress - Drama (nomination) - Charlie's Angels
    Charlie's Angels
    Charlie's Angels is a television series about three women who work for a private investigation agency, and is one of the first shows to showcase women in roles traditionally reserved for men. The series was broadcast in the USA on the ABC Television Network from 1976 to 1981 and was one of the most...

  • 1985: Best Performance by an Actress in a TV Series - Drama (nomination) - Scarecrow and Mrs. King
    Scarecrow and Mrs. King
    Scarecrow and Mrs. King is an American television series that aired from October 3, 1983, to May 28, 1987 on CBS. The show starred Kate Jackson and Bruce Boxleitner.-Synopsis:...



Bravo Golden Otto Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium,...

 (won 3 times)
  • 1986: TV Star (winner) - Scarecrow and Mrs. King
    Scarecrow and Mrs. King
    Scarecrow and Mrs. King is an American television series that aired from October 3, 1983, to May 28, 1987 on CBS. The show starred Kate Jackson and Bruce Boxleitner.-Synopsis:...

  • 1987: TV Star (winner) - Scarecrow and Mrs. King
    Scarecrow and Mrs. King
    Scarecrow and Mrs. King is an American television series that aired from October 3, 1983, to May 28, 1987 on CBS. The show starred Kate Jackson and Bruce Boxleitner.-Synopsis:...

  • 1988: TV Star (winner) - Scarecrow and Mrs. King
    Scarecrow and Mrs. King
    Scarecrow and Mrs. King is an American television series that aired from October 3, 1983, to May 28, 1987 on CBS. The show starred Kate Jackson and Bruce Boxleitner.-Synopsis:...


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