ACTOR
Jaclyn Smith
- Known for
- Charlie's Angels (1976)
19 archived facts 5 topics 1 source Last reviewed Oct 2026
Jaclyn Smith is an actor best known for Charlie's Angels.
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- #001
To avoid a bitter and prolonged divorce, Jaclyn Smith agreed to pay her third husband, Anthony B. Richmond, 4 million dollars for custody of their son Gaston Richmond and daughter Spencer Margaret Richmond.
- #002
In 1990, Jaclyn Smith was named one of People magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People in the World.
- #003
Jaclyn Smith is the only cast member who stayed with Charlie's Angels (1976) for all five seasons. She is also the only female cast member Cheryl Ladd got along well with; the two remained friends for decades after the series ended.
- #004
Jaclyn Smith, Kate Jackson and Farrah Fawcett supported one another in their personal battles with cancer. Smith and Jackson both survived breast cancer, while Farrah fought anal cancer for three years and died of it in 2009.
- #005
Kate Jackson, Smith's co-star on Charlie's Angels (1976), became the godmother of Smith's daughter, Spencer Margaret Richmond, in 1985. In 1995 Jackson adopted a son, Charles Taylor Jackson, and Smith became his godmother.
- #006
After a lump was found during a routine check-up in July 2002, Jaclyn Smith underwent a lumpectomy and radiation treatment for breast cancer. She recovered and that fall (2002) joined the cast of The District (2000) as Craig T. Nelson's love interest.
- #007
Jaclyn Smith occupied all three of the same-named billing slots on Charlie's Angels (1976). In the first season she was billed third, after Kate Jackson and Farrah Fawcett. When Fawcett left the series, Smith moved to second, after Jackson. When Jackson left after the show's third season, Smith received top billing over Cheryl Ladd and Shelley Hack, Jackson's replacement.
- #008
Smith's husband, Brad Allen, is a pediatric heart surgeon in Chicago, Illinois.
- #009
Jaclyn Smith is friends with Cheryl Ladd.
- #010
On November 6, 1989, Jaclyn Smith was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for television at 7000 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.
- #011
Jaclyn Smith gave birth to her first child at age 36.
- #012
In 1985, Jaclyn Smith launched her own clothing line at Kmart.
- #013
Jaclyn Smith graduated from Lamar High School in Houston, Texas, and later studied drama at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas.
- #014
Jaclyn Smith never warmed to Shelley Hack; Smith had wanted her friend Susie Coelho to replace Kate Jackson.
- #015
Jaclyn Smith is the wife of Dr. Brad Allen, the mother of Gaston Richmond and Spencer Margaret Richmond, and the mother-in-law of actor Fran Kranz. She is the former wife of Anthony B. Richmond and the former stepmother of George Richmond and Jonathan 'Chunky' Richmond. She is the grandmother of Bea Kranz, Olivia Rose Richmond and Wren Jaclyn Richmond.
- #016
Jaclyn Smith was inducted into the Hair Fan's Hall of Fame in 2012.
- #017
Jaclyn Smith turned down the role of Gwendolyn "Gwen" Williams on the soap opera Titans (2000).
- #018
Jaclyn Smith turned down the female lead in Cannonball Run II, and Shirley MacLaine was cast in her place. Her Charlie's Angels co-star Farrah Fawcett had appeared in the first film.
- #019
Actress Christina Chambers portrayed Jaclyn Smith in the television film Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of 'Charlie's Angels' (2004).
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