Ben Padua, her manager, confirmed her passing to Entertainment Weekly and recalled her as a unique talent.
“We are very sad to say goodbye to our client, Jill Jacobson, who was beautiful, soulful, hysterically funny, and elegantly raunchy,” Padua said.
With comic timing straight out of a Marx Brothers movie and Hollywood glitz from its heyday, Jill was an absolute spitfire of an actress.
Jill was a tremendous joy and led us on a ton of excursions. Jill, thank you. You will appear in our dreams.
A Career Including Theater, TV, and Film Jacobson, who was born in Texas, attended the University of Texas in Austin to study radio, television, and cinema performance before moving to Los Angeles to pursue acting.
After making her screen debut in Nurse Sherri and Bad Georgia Road in 1977, she went on to feature in independent comedies including Splash (1984), Baby Sister (1983), and Forbidden Love (1982).
