Jean Elizabeth Smart was born in 1951 on 13 September. Jean Elizabeth graduated in 1969 from Ballard High School in Seattle; there she found interest in acting in the drama. She got a bachelor’s degree from the Washington Professional Actors Training Program University with a BFA. Smart is a person of the University of Washington chapter.
Jean Elizabeth is an American actress. In 1981 she materialize on Broadway as Marlene Dietrich in the biographical play Piaf before beginning her career in regional theatre in the pacifist Northwest. Jean Elizabeth Smart was later cast in a leading part on the CBS sitcom Designing Women, in which she featured from 1986 to 1991.
Jean Elizabeth Smart’S Career:
In consecutive years, she seems in a family drama program, as Ory Baxter in a television version in 1994 and Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey in 1993. She was then cast leading the role of Sally Brewton in the television miniseries Scarlett in 1995 and appeared in a supporting part role in The Brady Bunch Movie in 1995. She also appears in the TV thriller movie A Stranger In Town in 1995 opposite Gregory Hines
In 1995, Smart was cast as the main lead role in the comedy series High Society, which co-actor Mary McDonnell cast for 13 episodes She was followed by a role opposing Nancy McKeon in another short-lived CBS sitcom women designing, Style & Substance. Other roles included a part role in Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple II in 1998, and as cast by Deborah Sloane in the drama Guinevere in 1999. She had a main lead role in the comedy Forever Fabulous in 1999 as an ageing beauty queen.
Jean Elizabeth Smart’s Husband:
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Smart gets married to actor Richard Gilliland. The couple met while working on the set of Designing Women (where he played the role of J.D. Shackelford, who is the boyfriend of Annie Potts’s character, Mary Jo Shively). He was a famous actor. He was born on 23 January 1950 in Texas, United States. The couple get married in 1987 and enjoy married life for 34 years. Both are survived by two sons, named Connor Douglas who was born in 1989 and Forrest who was adopted from China in May 2009. Gilliland died after suffering from a heavy illness on 18 March 2021.
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