Rebecca Balding, actress of Charmed and The Silent Scream, has died

Rebecca Balding, American actress with a long career in television, theater and cinema, died this Monday, at the age of 73, at his home in Park City, Utah. Her husband, actor and director James L. Conway, confirmed her death in a statement released to the media on Wednesday. There, he reports that For years the actress had been struggling with ovarian cancer.

In the emotional text Conway, 71, recalled the story of how they met four decades ago. “I was doing the casting for the movie ghoulish monsters and Rebecca came to audition,” he recalled. And she continued: “We talked. She read the script out loud and when she left, I turned to the associate producer and said, ‘I could marry that girl.’”

“Somehow, they chose her. The first week of shooting we went out. That Saturday night, he proposed to me. And four weeks later, while we were still shooting, we got married. Of course, no one thought it would last. That was 41 years ago”, pointed out the actor.

Rebecca Balding was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, and studied acting at the University of Kansas. Later, she moved to Chicago, where she found the ideal platform to get her career off the ground. She there she garnered her first prize for her performance on stage.

Already settled in Los Angeles, Balding dreamed that the success and prestige she had achieved in the theater would be replicated both on the small screen and on the big one. Hollywood the opportunity to shine in television roles that remained in the memory of several generations. She debuted in Barnaby Jones (1973) and later he would participate in two of the most watched programs of the time: Starsky y Hutch (1975) y the bionic woman (1976).

In 1977 he participated, as a guest figure, in the series Lou Grant, in which she played an anxious reporter. That same year, she put herself in the shoes of Carol David, the young woman who becomes a surrogate mother for Billy Crystal’s son in Soap. Movies for television would come later. The Encounter (first and second part) and the sitcom Makin’ It, series inspired by saturday night fever

He also participated in Supertrain (1979), I’m a Big Girl Now y The Fisher Family (1980), Gimme a Break! y Cagney & Lacey (1981), Matt Houston y family entanglements (1982), Hotel (1983), The Insiders (1985), Our House (1986), MacGyver (1985), Home Improvement (1991), Beverly Hills 90210 (1992), Melrose Place (1993) y ER Emergencies (1994).

His last role on the small screen was in the episode of Charmed titled “Kill Billie: Vol. 2″, from 2006. In the witch sisters series, Balding played Elise Rothman, Phoebe’s boss, Alyssa Milano.

Precisely, Milano was one of the colleagues who decided to pay him a small tribute on the networks upon learning the sad news. “Rebecca Balding was not only a wonderful actress, she was a very good person. I loved every minute I got to spend with her on Charmed. I have such fond memories of Rebecca and her husband Jim dancing at our end of season parties! My heart goes out to everyone who loved her. I feel so honored that our paths have crossed in this lifetime. May he rest in peace, ”she wrote on her Instagram account, along with an image of the two together in a scene from the series.

Your participation in Charmed It was not the first approach of the actress with stories plagued by demons and creatures that cause horror. Balding was one of the first “Scream Queens,” the name Hollywood calls horror movie stars who run, scream and fight for their lives. In 1979 she performed in the silent scream Scotty Parker, a brave college student who, during her first semester, settles in a house by the sea where she is involved in a wave of mysteries and murders. Two years later, she would become a young woman besieged by a series of otherworldly creatures in ghoulish monsters.

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