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Ann Jillian (born Ann Jura Nauseda; January 29, 1950) [1] is a former American actress and singer whose career began as a child actress in 1960. She is best known for her role as the sultry Cassie Cranston on the 1980s sitcom It's a Living .
The show follows the lives of the waitresses at the posh, fictional restaurant called Above the Top, located atop the Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles, California.At the helm is supervisor Nancy Beebe, the restaurant's maître d’, who sometimes fraternizes with the girls but usually gives orders and demands excellence.
In television, Rieffel was a series regular in The Thorns, Ann Jillian, The Trials of Rosie O'Neill, Women of the House, and Empty Nest (season 5 only). In 1998, Rieffel was an original cast member of The King of Queens during the show's first season, appearing in five of the sitcom's first six episodes before leaving the show.
In the series, Ann Jillian plays Jennifer Farrell, a once-popular movie actress who in 1978 made the unfortunate mistake of chasing an ice cream truck near her Los Angeles, California, home. When the ice cream truck accidentally backed up, it ran her over, killing her.
Ann Magnuson is an American actress, performance artist, and nightclub performer. She was described by The New York Times in 1990 as "An endearing theatrical chameleon who has as many characters at her fingertips as Lily Tomlin does". [2] A founding member of the 1980s band Bongwater, Magnuson starred in the ABC sitcom Anything but Love (1989 ...
Ann Jillian is an American sitcom television series created by Deidre Fay and Stuart Wolpert, starring Ann Jillian that aired on NBC from November 30, 1989, to August 19, 1990. [ 1 ] Plot
Ann Jillian received her third Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Special, and won a 1989 Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV.
Faye Dunaway as Maud Charteris, a famous American actress; Richard Burton as Senator Phipps Ogden, a wealthy aging widower; Kate Burton as Vanessa Ogden, Ogden's socialist-leaning daughter who is an amateur sculptor and artist; Ann Jillian as Nellie Byfield, an ambitious solo singer who performs in a gentlemen's club