Jill Jacobson, an actress best known for her roles on “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and the primetime soap opera “Falcon Crest,” has died. She was 70.

According to reports from Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, Jacobson died on December 8 in Los Angeles, California at Cedars-Sinai’s Culver West Health Center, according to her publicist and longtime friend Daniel Hararay.

Harary told the media the actress died after a battle with “a long illness”. Her manager Ben Padua also confirmed the news to Entertainment Weekly.

“We are incredibly sad to say goodbye to our beautiful, soulful, hysterically funny, elegantly raunchy client Jill Jacobson,” Padua said in a statement to EW. “Jill was an absolute hothead of an actress with comedic timing straight out of a Marx Brothers flick and Hollywood glamor from its golden age.”

Jacobson began her acting career with the title role in “Nurse Sherri,” a low-budget 1977 slasher horror film. She then starred in “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,” “Days of Our Lives,” “Castle,” “Hung,” “Newhart,” and “Who’s the Boss?”

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Jacobson appeared in over 20 episodes of the CBS soap opera “Falcon Crest,” which was created by Earl Hammer Jr. and aired for nine seasons. In Falcon Crest, Jacobson played Erin Jones.

At the same time, Jacobson appeared in eight episodes of The New Gidget, in which she played the role of Larue Wilson. Her most recent role was in the 2020 series “Etheria.”

Before moving to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career, Jacobson grew up in Beaumont, Texas and Dallas, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Jacobson received a BS in radio, television and film performance from the University of Texas at Austin.