Kate Jackson

Kate Jackson

Lucy Kate Jackson is an American actress and television producer. She is best known for her roles as Sabrina Duncan on Charlie’s Angels and Amanda King in the series Scarecrow and Mrs. King. Her film roles include Making Love and Loverboy. Jackson is a three-time Emmy Award nominee and four-time Golden Globe Award nominee.

About Kate Jackson in brief

Summary Kate JacksonLucy Kate Jackson is an American actress and television producer. She is best known for her roles as Sabrina Duncan on Charlie’s Angels and Amanda King in the series Scarecrow and Mrs. King. Her film roles include Making Love and Loverboy. Jackson is a three-time Emmy Award nominee and four-time Golden Globe Award nominee. She also hosted the thirteenth episode of season four of Saturday Live which aired in 1979. Jackson was born in Birmingham, Alabama, the daughter of Ruth and Hogan Jackson, a business executive. She attended The Brooke Hill School for Girls while residing in Mountain Brook. She 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. Jackson began her career in the late 1960s in summer stock, before landing her first major television roles in Dark Shadows and The Rookies. She then moved to New York City to study acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.

She appeared in two episodes of the short-lived sitcom The Jimmy Stewart Show. In 1971, she had a starring role as Tracy Collins in Night of Dark Shadows, the second feature film based on the daytime serial. The same year, she appeared in the 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. In 1975, Jackson met with Rookie producers Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg to discuss her contractual obligation to star in another television series for SpellingGoldberg Productions upon that show’s cancellation. She was originally cast as Kelly Garrett, but decided upon SabrinaDuncan instead. The huge success of the show saw Jackson, Smith and Farrah Fawcett-Majors appear on the front cover of Time magazine. The show aired as a movie of the week on March 21, 1976, before debuting as a series on September 22, 1976.