Jaclyn Smith
Actor, TV Actor
1945 –
Who is Jaclyn Smith?
Jacquelyn Ellen "Jaclyn" Smith is an American actress and businesswoman. She is best known as Kelly Garrett in the television series Charlie's Angels, and was the only original female lead to remain with the series for its complete run. Beginning in the 1980s, she began developing and marketing her own brands of clothing and perfume.
Smith began her career in 1969 in television commercials and had early appearances in the 1969 film Goodbye, Columbus and the 1970 film The Adventurers. In 1976, she was cast in Charlie's Angels, alongside Kate Jackson and Farrah Fawcett. The show propelled all three to stardom, including appearing on the front cover of Time magazine. During this time, she also had a leading role in the 1980 thriller Nightkill.
On leaving Charlie's Angels in 1981, she starred in the title role in the TV movie Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy and received a Best Actress Golden Globe nomination. She starred in numerous TV movies and miniseries over the next twenty years, including George Washington, Kaleidoscope and Nightmare in the Daylight, opposite Christopher Reeve. She also starred in the 1985 feature film, Déjà Vu.
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- Born
- Oct 26, 1945
Houston - Also known as
- Jacquelyn Ellen Smith
- Jacquelyn Ellen "Jaclyn" Smith
- Jaclyn Ellen Smith
- Parents
- Spouses
- Roger Davis
(1968/11/29 - 1978) - Dennis Cole
(1978/10/29 - 1981/07/23) - Brad Allen
(1997/10/11 - ) - Anthony B. Richmond
(1981/08/04 - 1989)
- Roger Davis
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Trinity University
- Lived in
- New York City
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on July 23, 2013
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