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Biography of Kate Jackson - Actress
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Catherine Elise "Kate" Jackson (born October 29, 1948 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an United States|American actor|actress best known for her role in the 1970s television series Charlie's Angels. She had earlier played a year-long role in the soap opera Dark Shadows in 1970 as Daphne Harridge and, from 1972 to 1976, co-starred as Jill Danko in The Rookies. From 1976 to 1979, she played the role of Sabrina Duncan in Charlie's Angels. She was usually considered the best of the three original lead actresses, and she was the only one with prior acting qualifications. From 1983 to 1987, she co-starred in the TV series Scarecrow and Mrs. King with Bruce Boxleitner, in which she depicted a suburban mother who became involved with a CIA-like Agency. After it, she took the main role in Baby Boom, a TV version of the original movie starring Diane Keaton, but it only lasted one season. After that, she has starred in many TV movies and made ocassional guest appareances. In 1978, she married actor Andrew Stevens and subsequently divorced in 1980. She remarried to editor David Greenwald in 1982, but divorced two years later. Her third marriage was to stuntman Tom Hart in 1991, but she also divorced to years later. In 2000, she adopted a son, Charles Taylor. She battled breast cancer twice, in 1987 and 1989, and survived. == External links == * http://www.katejackson.com/ Website about Jackson * http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0000462 Jackson's entry in the Internet Movie Database US-actor-stub

