Brenda Irene Dickson (born February 3, 1949 in Long Beach, California)) is an American actress who played Jill Foster Abbott on the soap opera The Young and the Restless.
Dickson portrayed the character Jill on The Young and the Restless from 1973 to 1980, then again from 1983 to 1987.
Apart from The Young and the Restless, Dickson also had roles in the dramas The Storefront Lawyers and The F.B.I., the comedies Love, American Style and Here We Go...
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Brenda Irene Dickson (born February 3, 1949 in Long Beach, California)) is an American actress who played Jill Foster Abbott on the soap opera The Young and the Restless.
Dickson portrayed the character Jill on The Young and the Restless from 1973 to 1980, then again from 1983 to 1987.
Apart from The Young and the Restless, Dickson also had roles in the dramas The Storefront Lawyers and The F.B.I., the comedies Love, American Style and Here We Go Again, and the primetime soap opera Falcon Crest.
In the 1976 film Taxi Driver, Robert De Niro's character Travis Bickle is shown kicking over a television set that is playing an episode of The Young and the Restless featuring Beau Kazer as Brock Reynolds and Dickson as Jill. Both Kazer and Dickson are credited in the film as "Soap Opera Man" and "Soap Opera Woman", respectively.
In 2007, Dickson was jailed in Hawaii because of a civil contempt order stemming from a divorce judgment from her ex-husband, lawyer Jan Weinberg. She said she was...
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