Kate Jackson
Lucy "Kate" Jackson ( born October 29, 1948 in Birmingham, Alabama ) is an American actress.
She gained international recognition in the 1970s for her role as Sabrina Duncan in the television series Charlie's Angels, and in the 1980s as Scarecrow and Mrs. King. For both roles she was nominated for both an Emmy Award, and a Golden Globe Award. Since the 1990s, she is mostly seen in TV movies and made guest appearances on series like Ally McBeal (1997), Sabrina - totally bewitched! (2002) and Criminal Minds (2007).
Life and career
Kate Jackson was born in Birmingham, Alabama and raised, as elder of two daughters of the couple Ruth and Hogan Jackson, on.
At the age of 16 years, Jackson began working after school as a professional model and has received orders from, inter alia, the cosmetic manufacturers Max Factor and Revlon. After high school, she studied history at the University of Mississippi, joined in the second year of study but to the Birmingham - Southern College to study acting. The mid-1960s she performed one summer at Stowe Playhouse in Vermont, to which also Morgan Freeman and Meryl Streep played. In 1968, Jackson moved to New York City, where she studied at the Academy of Dramatic Arts and incidentally as a visitor guide at NBC worked.
Her first role was that of a spirit in the soap opera Dark Shadows, in which she was involved from 1970 to 1971. Then she moved to Los Angeles, where she played from 1972 to 1976 in the television series The Rookies a nurse.
Soon after her made the producers Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg the offer to take over the role of private detective Sabrina Duncan in the planned television series Charlie's Angels. Jackson was the first " Angel", which was put under contract, the other two roles were cast with Jaclyn Smith and Farrah Fawcett. The series began in September 1976 in the United States and soon became a great success. Weekly tuned in up to 23 million viewers and the three leading ladies were inundated with fan mail. Jackson was nominated for her role three times for an Emmy and a Golden Globe Award, but despite this success, they soon became dissatisfied with what the script demanded of her. She declined to appear in bikini and was annoyed by the often shallow plot of the series. After playing the offer, the female lead in the film Kramer vs. Kramer (1979 ) on the side of Dustin Hoffman, due to the rigidity shooting schedule of Charlie's Angels had to refuse, they eventually decided to move out of the series. Jackson about her exit in 1979: "I think it was not easy to work with me. In the end I did not know who I am. I had everything and was still unhappy. My life was just focused on the job and even though millions of people knew me and liked, at the end of a 14 -hour shooting day I sat lonely and alone in my apartment. I do not want to sound ungrateful, but I was never content to make money and to work. "
From 1983 to 1987 Jackson enjoyed great success as Scarecrow and Mrs. King. In the TV series she played the divorced housewife Amanda King, who is working for the secret service on the side of Lee Stetson ( Bruce Boxleitner ). The role brought her a fourth Golden Globe nomination. During the filming of the fourth season in January 1987 breast cancer was diagnosed in Jackson. However, you could successfully fight the disease.
The late 1980s, Jackson played in the baby boom (1988 to 1989), the television adaptation of the American comedy film Baby Boom - A Fine Mess with Diane Keaton in the year 1987.
To date, she plays regularly in U.S. television films and series. Most recently she was seen in a guest role in the television series Criminal Minds, 2007.
Kate Jackson was married three times. Her first husband was the producer, actor and director Andrew Stevens, with whom she was married from August 1978 to January 1980. In May 1982, she married film editor David Greenwald; They were divorced in December 1984. In September 1991 she married the actor and stuntman Tom Hart; the couple divorced in 1993. In 1995, she adopted a boy.