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Brenda Dickson

Born February 3, 1949
Long Beach, California
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Brenda Dickson (born February 3, 1949 in Long Beach, California) is an American actress. Events 1112 - Ramon Berenguer III of Barcelona and Douce I of Provence marry uniting the fortunes of those two states Year 1949 ( MCMXLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Long Beach is a city located in southern California, USA, on the Pacific coast California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. Events 1112 - Ramon Berenguer III of Barcelona and Douce I of Provence marry uniting the fortunes of those two states Year 1949 ( MCMXLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Long Beach is a city located in southern California, USA, on the Pacific coast California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the An actor, actress, player or thespian (see terminology) is a person who Acts in a Dramatic production and who works She is best known for playing Jill Foster Abbott on the soap opera The Young and the Restless from 1973 to 1980, and from 1983 to 1987. Jill Abbott (née Foster; previously Reynolds, Chancellor, Thurston, Brooks, and Sterling) is the only original A soap opera is an ongoing episodic work of Fiction, usually broadcast on Television or Radio. The Young and the Restless is a 39 time Emmy Award winning American Television Soap opera, first broadcast on CBS on March 26

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Biography

Dickson was a beauty pageant contestant who won the title of Miss California (preliminary to Miss World) 1967. A beauty contest or beauty pageant is a competition based mainly though not always entirely on the physical beauty of its contestants and often incorporating Personality The Miss World pageant is the oldest surviving major international Beauty pageant created in the United Kingdom by Eric Morley in 1951 After a number of years making commercials and appearing on game shows as a panelist, she was cast as one of the first cast members of the daytime drama The Young and the Restless. The Young and the Restless is a 39 time Emmy Award winning American Television Soap opera, first broadcast on CBS on March 26 She was on the show as Jill Foster Abbott when it launched in 1973 until 1980. Jill Abbott (née Foster; previously Reynolds, Chancellor, Thurston, Brooks, and Sterling) is the only original She left the show to become a real-life housewife. However, her marriage soon ended and she returned to acting. In 1983, she reprised the role of Jill on The Young and the Restless, and her performance as the show's villainess supposedly pushed the soap opera to the top of the ratings. She played the role until 1987, when she was replaced by Jess Walton, who continues to play the role to this day. Jess Walton (born February 18, 1949) is a 2-time Emmy Award -winning American Actress, best known for her role as Jill Foster

The role of vampy, trampy Jill garnered Dickson and the show a great deal of attention. During her first run on the show, she was given the controversial storyline of the ingenue Jill falling in love with the rich husband of client Katherine Chancellor. Her involvement on the serial merited a brief cameo in the film Taxi Driver, where Robert De Niro's character accidentally knocks over and breaks his television set while he watches Dickson play Jill. Taxi Driver is a film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Paul Schrader. Robert Mario De Niro Jr (born August 17 1943 is a two-time Academy Award -winning American Film Actor, director and producer During Dickson's second run on the show, she was given another controversial storyline where Jill sleeps with her stepson Jack Abbott and then is blackmailed for it. Jack Henry Abbott ( January 21, 1944 &ndash February 10, 2002) was an American criminal and Author.

On E! True Hollywood Story Dickson indicated that she was terminated from her role as Jill because she was ill, and that she unsuccessfully pursued litigation regarding her termination. E! True Hollywood Story is a TV documentary series on the E! Entertainment Television cable and DBS channel that deals with famous [1]. Industry magazines attributed her termination to diva-like conflict with costars or executives. Publicly, she and Jeanne Cooper, who plays Katherine Chancellor, expressed warm feelings toward each other. Wilma Jeanne Cooper (born October 25, 1928 in Taft California) is an Emmy Award -winning American actress of In 1988, Dickson hugged and then thanked Cooper in her acceptance speech when she won the Soap Opera Digest Award Outstanding Villainess in a Daytime Serial. The Soap Opera Digest Awards are an award show held by the daytime television magazine Soap Opera Digest. Cooper was quoted in a January 2007 issue of Soap Opera Digest as stating that she "adores Brenda". However, Jerry Douglas, who played Dickson's on-screen spouse, was quoted in Soap Opera Digest as saying of Dickson, "I really cannot stand that woman and you can print that!"

Dickson has earned a reputation for occasionally living up to her character's wild and colorful nature. Jerry Douglas (born November 12 1932) is an American television and film actor Among media related to Dickson is a vanity video production she hosted titled "Welcome to my Home" taped in 1987, for which she is also credited as writer, director and executive producer. It has resurfaced on several video-based websites, and has gained unintentional camp status.

Personal life

Dickson has been married twice: to dentist Robert Rifkin and attorney Jan Weinberg. In 2007, Dickson was jailed in Hawaii because of a civil contempt order stemming from the divorce judgment from her second marriage. [2] The judge released her after sixteen days in jail when she told him that she would vacate the Hollywood condo that was part of the marital estate, so it could be put up for sale. [3] Because of this incident, Dickson received a flurry of publicity. In a television interview conducted by her former co-star, Michael Corbett from The Young and the Restless, she indicated that she would not move out of the marital condo, reneging on her word to the judge, which landed her in jail again. Michael Corbett (born June 20, 1956 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania) is an American actor best known for playing the secretary-turned-murderer David The Young and the Restless is a 39 time Emmy Award winning American Television Soap opera, first broadcast on CBS on March 26 After nearly three months in jail, the judge released her on June 27, 2007, because the Hollywood condo was sold and her ex-husband had withdrawn his objection to her release. [4]

Awards and nominations

References

  1. ^ http://www.wrf.com/docs/newsletter_issues/278.pdf
  2. ^ Jailed actress says she's the victim - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper
  3. ^ Actress makes agreement to get out of jail | KHON2 FOX | Local Top Stories
  4. ^ Hilo coast is a big rainwater mess - The Honolulu Advertiser
  5. ^ 1988

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