Ann Jillian (born Ann Jura Nauseda on January 29, 1950 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is an American actress of Lithuanian extraction. January 29 is the 29th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1950 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Cambridge City Hall Cambridge is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. ...

Jillian has been acting since 1961. She was "Little Bo Peep" in Disney film, "Babes In Toyland" 1960. She appeared in the Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood 1962 movie version of Gypsy. She later became a regular on the 1960s sitcom Hazel and did voice acting for Scooby Doo and Sealab 2020 in the 1970s. 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Rosalind Russell (June 4, 1907 - November 28, 1976) was an American film and stage actress. ... Natalie Wood Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko (July 20, 1938 – November 29, 1981), better known as Natalie Wood, was an American film actress. ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Gypsy: A Musical Fable is a musical with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. ... The examples and perspective in this article do not represent a worldwide view. ... A voice actor (or voice artist) is a person who provides voices for computer and video games, puppet shows, amusement rides, audio dramas, dubbed foreign language films, stop motion, and animation works (including cartoons, animated feature films, animated shorts), and radio and television commercials. ... Scooby-Doo is a popular and long-running animated series produced for Saturday morning television by Hanna-Barbera Productions (now Cartoon Network Studios) from 1969 to 1986, 1988 to 1991, and from 2002 to the present day. ... Sealab 2020 was a short-lived cartoon, produced by Hanna-Barbera. ...

She is best known for her early 1980s TV series, It's a Living, a sitcom that elevated Jillian to sex symbol status. She was last signed into this series and received last place billing. During her time on the series, she portrayed Mae West in a made-for-TV film, and actually quit It's a Living for a couple of years tp star in over 25 films, mostly for TV. She also had two short-lived sitcom's, 1. fantasy sitcom called Jennifer Slept Here and 2. "Ann Jillian" TV series. She also returned to her old show (which had been renamed Making a Living) and became top billed star in this series. Her tv film "The Ann Jillian Story" which recounted both her victory over breast cancer and the love story of Ann and husband Andy Murcia. This film was #1 in ratings for the 87-88 TV season but more it revealed the hopeful side of breast cancer to it's millions of viewers world-wide. The film has aired in every language to date. Its a Living was the name of a sitcom which aired on American television from 1980 to 1982 and from 1985 to 1989. ... Blonde bombshell and film star Marilyn Monroe became a sex symbol of the 1950s. ... MAE-West is a major Internet peering point located in San Jose, California. ... Jennifer Slept Here was a American fantasy/situation comedy series that ran for one season on NBC during the 1983-1984 television season. ...

Jillian married Andy Murcia, a Chicago police Sgt., in [[1977] and shortly after Murcia retired to manage his wifes career. In the mid-1980s, the 35-year-old actress made headlines when she was diagnosed with breast cancer and she became a vocal advocate for cancer research and prevention. Her own cancer was beaten following a double mastectomy and Jillian continued to act and also had a son in 1992. Her TV and film credits have been sporadic since the late 1990s,as she decided to devote herself to raising her son Andrew Joseph and to breast cancer issues. Today Ann mostly works as a motivational speaker and still performs her singing mostly in corporate and sympphony pops circles. Ann, husband and son reside in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, CA. She is active in her church and in her son's education and his school. She considers "motherhood" her lifes most important role. Breast cancer is cancer of breast tissue. ... In medicine, mastectomy is the medical term for the surgical removal of one or both breasts, partially or completely. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ...

External links

• Ann Jillian at the Internet Movie Database