Rebecca Balding

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Rebecca Balding (September 21, 1948 – July 18, 2022) was an American actress best known for her appearances on Soap and Charmed. Balding was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. She attended the University of Kansas. She had the role of Carol David, mother of Jodie Dallas' child, on Soap, appearing in 19 episodes from 1978 through 1980. Balding 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 inaugural 1977 season of the drama series Lou Grant, starring Ed Asner, before that character was written out for a different female reporter. That same year, she again appeared with Asner, playing his daughter Julie, in the classic Christmas TV film, The Gathering. Also in 1977, Balding played Amy Franklin in Deadly Game, a movie that starred Andy Griffith and James Cromwell. In 1980 she starred in the pilot of the sitcom Mr. and Mrs. and Mr., that was never progressed as a series. In 1996, she made a guest appearance on 7th Heaven as Ellen, the mother of Matt's new girlfriend Tia. In 1998, Balding 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 under a different role. Balding played the recurring character Elise Rothman, a 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. Balding was married to television producer James L. Conway, whom she met while auditioning for a part in the 1981 horror movie The Boogens, which Conway directed and in which Balding ultimately starred. Balding died on July 18, 2022, in Park City, Utah, at the age of 73, after having suffered from ovarian cancer. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rebecca Balding, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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2005
Yesterday's Dreams
Movie Mrs. Woodward
1998
Charmed
TV show Elise Rothman
1997
Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
TV show Gwen Chandler (segment "Bon Voyage")
1996
7th Heaven
TV show Ellen Jackson
1994
ER
TV show Ms. Garvey
1992
Melrose Place
TV show
1992
Bodies of Evidence
TV show
1991
Home Improvement
TV show Leslie Morrison
1990
Beverly Hills, 90210
TV show Jill Abernathy
1989
Free Spirit
TV show
1986
Designing Women
TV show
1985
MacGyver
TV show Susan Walker
1985
MacGruder and Loud
TV show Sandy
1984
Brothers
TV show
1982
Matt Houston
TV show
1982
Family Ties
TV show Karen Banks