27 Facts About Kate Jackson

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Kate Jackson is a three-time Emmy Award nominee and four-time Golden Globe Award nominee.

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Kate Jackson appeared in the film Night of Dark Shadows.

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Kate Jackson then continued to star in numerous television films, including Quiet Killer, Empty Cradle and Satan's School for Girls, a remake of the 1973 TV film of the same name in which she starred.

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Kate Jackson was born in Birmingham, Alabama, the daughter of Ruth and Hogan Kate Jackson, a business executive.

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Kate Jackson attended The Brooke Hill School for Girls while residing in Mountain Brook.

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Kate Jackson went on to enroll at the University of Mississippi as a history major where she was a member of the Delta Rho chapter of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority.

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In 1971, Kate Jackson had a starring role as Tracy Collins in Night of Dark Shadows, the second feature film based on the daytime serial.

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Kate Jackson then appeared as nurse Jill Danko for four seasons on the 1970s crime drama The Rookies.

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Kate Jackson appeared in several TV films during this period.

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Kate Jackson's performance was well received in the 1972 independent film Limbo, one of the first theatrical films to address the Vietnam War and the wives of soldiers who were POWs, MIA or killed in action.

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Kate Jackson appeared in Death Scream, a 1975 television dramatization of the circumstances surrounding the 1964 murder of Kitty Genovese.

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Kate Jackson was originally cast as Kelly Garrett, but decided upon Sabrina Duncan instead.

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Kate Jackson hosted the thirteenth episode of season four of Saturday Night Live which aired in February 1979.

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At the beginning of the third season of Charlie's Angels, Kate Jackson was offered the Meryl Streep role in the feature film Kramer vs Kramer, but was forced to turn it down because Spelling told her that the show's shooting schedule could not be rearranged to give her time to do the film.

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Kate Jackson starred alongside Harry Hamlin and her Rookies co-star Michael Ontkean in the feature film Making Love, directed by Arthur Hiller.

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Kate Jackson checked in to a hospital under an alias to have a lumpectomy.

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

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In 1989, Kate Jackson starred in the film Loverboy, directed by Joan Micklin Silver.

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In 1995, Kate Jackson was diagnosed as having been born with an atrial septal defect that had previously gone undetected.

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Kate Jackson spoke publicly about breast cancer and heart health and received the "Power of Love" award in 2003 from the American Heart Association for raising awareness among the public regarding those issues.

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In 2007, Kate Jackson played the mother of FBI agent Emily Prentiss on Criminal Minds.

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Kate Jackson has not appeared in film or television since 2009.

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Kate Jackson lived with, and was engaged to, actor Edward Albert in the mid-1970s.

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Kate Jackson was then linked romantically to producer Robert Evans, stuntman Gary Quist and actors Dirk Benedict, Nick Nolte and Warren Beatty.

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Kate Jackson married New York businessman David Greenwald in 1982, and they formed 'Shoot The Moon Productions' together, the company that produced Jackson's series Scarecrow and Mrs King.

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Kate Jackson became stepmother to Sean, Hart's son from a previous relationship.

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In May 2010, Jackson sued her financial advisor, Richard B Francis, claiming his actions cost her more than $3 million and brought her to financial ruin.