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Profile of Ann Jillian
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Ann Jillian |
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29th January 1950 |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA |
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Ann Jillian (born Ann Jura Nauseda on January 29, 1950 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is an American actress of Lithuanian extraction.
Jillian has been acting since 1961. She appeared in the Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood 1962 movie version of Gypsy. She later became a regular on the 1960s sitcom Hazel and did voice acting for Scooby Doo and Sealab 2020 in the 1970s.
She is best known for her early 1980s TV series, It's a Living, a sitcom that elevated Jillian to sex symbol status. During her time on the series, she portrayed Mae West in a made-for-TV film, and actually quit It's a Living for a couple of years in order to star in a short-lived fantasy sitcom called Jennifer Slept Here before returning to her old show (which had been renamed Making a Living).
Jillian married Andy Murcia, a former policeman, in 1977. In the mid-1980s, the 35-year-old actress made headlines when she was diagnosed with breast cancer and she became a vocal advocate for cancer research and prevention. Her own cancer was beaten following a double mastectomy and Jillian continued to act and also had a son in 1992. Her TV and film credits have been sporadic since the late 1990s, and today she mostly works as a motivational speaker.
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