Rebecca Balding dead: Charmed actress dies after secret battle with ovarian cancer | Celebrity News | Showbiz & TV
Charmed and Soap actress Rebecca Balding has died after secretly battling ovarian cancer. The star was 73 years old.
Her husband, actor and director James L. Conway, confirmed the sad news to Deadline.
She had played Aunt Jackie and Elise Rothman in Charmed, Mrs Garvey in ER, and Carol David in Soap.
Fans of Rebecca’s have begun to pay tribute on social media.
Mr G tweeted: “Not Aunt Jackie/Elise!! Lord this hurt my heart to hear about. RIP Rebecca Balding.”
Rebecca played Carol David, mother of Jodie Dallas’ child, on Soap, appearing in 19 episodes from 1978 to 1980.
She played Corky Crandall in 1979 in the sitcom Makin’ It, as well as the original female reporter Carla Mardigian during the first three episodes of the 1977 season of the drama series Lou Grant, starring Ed Asner, before her character was written out for a different female reporter.
That same year she acted opposite Ed once again, playing his daughter Julie in the Christmas TV film The Gathering.
Rebecca also played Amy Franklin in Deadly Game, a movie that starred Andy Griffith and James Cromwell.
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In 1998, Rebecca guest starred as Aunt Jackie in the season one episode “The Fourth Sister” of Charmed.
She later returned to the show during its fourth season in 2002 as Elise Rothman.
Elise was the newspaper editor-in-chief and the boss of Phoebe Halliwell, played by Alyssa Milano.
She played the role until the show’s eighth and final season in 2006.
