Rebecca Balding
{{Short description|American actress (1948–2022)}}
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| name = Rebecca Balding
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1948|9|21}}
| birth_place = Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2022|7|18|1948|9|21}}
| death_place = Park City, Utah, U.S.
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| occupation = Actress
| yearsactive = 1976–2006
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Rebecca Balding (September 21, 1948 – July 18, 2022){{cite news|last=Sachdeva|first=Maanya|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/rebecca-balding-death-charmed-soap-b2128024.html|title=Rebecca Balding death: Charmed and Soap actor dies from ovarian cancer, aged 73|website=The Independent|location=London|date=July 21, 2022|access-date=July 21, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220721082255/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/rebecca-balding-death-charmed-soap-b2128024.html |url-status=live |archive-date=July 21, 2022}} was an American actress best known for her appearances on Soap and Charmed.
Biography
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In 1948, Balding was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. She attended the University of Kansas.{{fact|date=January 2025}}
In 1977, Balding starred as the original female reporter Carla Mardigian during the first three episodes of the inaugural 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 (1977). Also in 1977, Balding played Amy Franklin in Deadly Game, a movie that starred Andy Griffith and James Cromwell.{{fact|date=January 2025}}
Balding had the role of Carol David, mother of Jodie Dallas' child, on Soap, appearing in 19 episodes from 1978 through 1980.{{fact|date=January 2025}}
In 1979, Balding played Corky Crandall in the sitcom Makin' It.{{fact|date=January 2025}}
In 1980, Balding starred in the pilot of the sitcom Mr. and Mrs. and Mr., but the series was not picked up.{{Cite journal |last1=Copp |first1=Eagle |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=XSFWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=DeQDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5747,4743241&dq=rebecca-balding+conway&hl=en |title=Entertainment is low on weekend schedule |journal=The Free Lance-Star |date=1980-08-30 |access-date=2022-08-03}}
Balding was married to television producer James L. Conway, whom she met while auditioning for a part in the horror movie The Boogens (1981), which Conway directed, and in which Balding ultimately starred.{{cite book|author=John Kenneth Muir|title=Horror films of the 1980s|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VJ1vcmaOd7wC&pg=PA226|accessdate=2011-11-20|date=March 2007|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-2821-2|page=226}}
In 1996, Balding made a guest appearance on 7th Heaven as Ellen, the mother of Matt's new girlfriend Tia.{{fact|date=January 2025}}
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.{{fact|date=January 2025}}
On July 18, 2022, Balding died in Park City, Utah, at the age of 73, after having suffered from ovarian cancer.
Filmography
=Film=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1979
|Scotty Parker | |
| 1981
|{{sortname|The|Boogens}} |Trish Michaels | |
| 1983
|Kiss My Grits |Doris Ann | |
| 2005
|Yesterday's Dream |Mrs. Woodward | |
=Television=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1976
|{{sortname|The|Bionic Woman}} |Parker |"Jaime's Shield: Parts 1 & 2" |
| 1976
|Officer Perkowitz |"Little Girl Lost" |
| 1977
|Carla Mardigian |"Cophouse", "Hostages", "Hoax" |
| 1977
|Deadly Game |Amy Franklin |TV film |
| 1977
|{{sortname|The|Gathering|The Gathering (1977 film)}} |Julie |TV film |
| 1978
|Mickie Marra |"Class in Crime" |
| 1978
|Maggie Revell |"Prime Target" |
| 1978
|{{sortname|The|Rockford Files}} |Carol Lansing |"Dwarf in a Helium Hat" |
| 1978–80
|Soap |Carol David |Recurring role, 19 episodes |
| 1979
|{{sortname|The|French Atlantic Affair}} |Harriet Kleinfeld |TV miniseries |
| 1979
|Corky Crandall |Main role |
| 1979
|Ellen Bradford |"The Green Girl" |
| 1979
|Gally |"Checkmate" |
| 1979
|{{sortname|The|Gathering, Part II|nolink=1}} |Julie |TV film |
| 1980
|Mr. and Mrs. and Mr. |Widow |TV film |
| 1981
|Judy |"Best Friends" |
| 1983
|Sonia Maltese |"Burn Out" |
| 1983
|Penny Domenico |"Flashback" |
| 1983
|Nan Kimball |"The Woman in White" |
| 1984
|Sarah |"Apostle of Death" |
| 1984
|Wendy |"Herbie" |
| 1984
|{{sortname|The|Mississippi|The Mississippi (TV series)}} |Deborah |"Home Again" |
| 1984
|Karen Banks |"Working at It" |
| 1985
|Sandy |"Tarnished Blues" |
| 1985
|Janey Waters |"It Ain't Over Til It's Over" |
| 1985
|Anna Tinker |"Billboard Barney" |
| 1986
|{{sortname|The|Fall Guy}} |Sandra Andrews |"The Lucky Stiff" |
| 1987
|Gale Witherspoon |"Past Tense, Future Tense: Parts 1 & 2" |
| 1987
|Susan Walker |"Back from the Dead" |
| 1989
|{{sortname|The|Robert Guillaume Show}} |Jenny |"First Date" |
| 1989-90
|Mary McBride |Recurring role |
| 1990
|Meg Snyder |"We Gotta Be Me" |
| 1990
|Melinda |"And Now, Here's Bernice" |
| 1992
|Karen Turner |"Echoes in the Dark" |
| 1993
|Leslie Morrison |"Feud for Thought" |
| 1995
|Nancy Reynolds |"Shadow of a Doubt" |
| 1996
|Ellen Jackson |"Now You See Me" |
| 1997
|Jill Abernathy |"Toil and Trouble", "Deadline" |
| 1998
|Nora Larner |"M.P. Confidential", "The Nasty Minded Professor" |
| 1998
|Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction |Gwen Chandler |"Bon Voyage" |
| 1998–2006
|Aunt Jackie/Elise Rothman |Recurring role, 23 episodes |
| 1999
|Ms. Leigh |"About Face" |
| 2000
|ER |Ms. Garvey |"Mars Attacks" |
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|id=0049754|name=Rebecca Balding}}
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Category:21st-century American actresses
Category:Actresses from Little Rock, Arkansas
Category:American television actresses
Category:University of Kansas alumni