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Rebecca Balding

Actor
Died July 18, 2022 (73 years)
Rebecca Balding (September 21, 1948 – July 18, 2022) was an American actress best known for her appearances on Soap and Charmed. Balding was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. She attended the University of Kansas. She had the role of Carol David, mother of Jodie Dallas' child, on Soap, appearing in 19 episodes from 1978 through 1980. Balding played Corky Crandall in 1979 in the sitcom Makin' It, as well as the original female reporter Carla Mardigian during the first three episodes of the inaugural 1977 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. Also in 1977, Balding played Amy Franklin in Deadly Game, a movie that starred Andy Griffith and James Cromwell. In 1980 she starred in the pilot of the sitcom Mr. and Mrs. and Mr., that was never progressed as a series. In 1996, she made a guest appearance on 7th Heaven as Ellen, the mother of Matt's new girlfriend Tia.

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.

Balding was married to television producer James L. Conway, whom she met while auditioning for a part in the 1981 horror movie The Boogens, which Conway directed and in which Balding ultimately starred.

Balding died on July 18, 2022, in Park City, Utah, at the age of 73, after having suffered from ovarian cancer.

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Movies & Shows on Plex
  • Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
  • The Silent Scream
Known For
  • The Boogens
  • The Silent Scream
  • The Gathering
  • The Gathering, Part II
  • Makin' It
  • Deadly Game
  • Kiss My Grits

Filmography

1998
Charmed (TV Series) · as Elise Rothman
1998
Love Boat: The Next Wave (TV Series) · as Ms. Leigh
1997
Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction (TV Series) · as Gwen Chandler (segment "bon Voyage")
1996
7th Heaven (TV Series) · as Ellen Jackson
1995
University Hospital (TV Series) · as Nancy Reynolds
1994
ER (TV Series) · as Ms. Garvey
1992
Melrose Place (TV Series) · as Nora Larner
1992
Bodies of Evidence (TV Series)
1991
Home Improvement (TV Series) · as Leslie Morrison
1990
1989
Free Spirit (TV Series)
1988
Guns of Paradise (TV Series) · as Mary Mcbride
1986
Designing Women (TV Series)
1986
Our House (TV Series) · as Gale Witherspoon
1985
MacGyver (TV Series) · as Susan Walker
1985
The Insiders (TV Series) · as Cast
1985
MacGruder and Loud (TV Series) · as Sandy
1984
Brothers (TV Series)
1983
Hotel (TV Series)
1983
Lottery! (TV Series) · as Cast
1982
Matt Houston (TV Series)
1982
Family Ties (TV Series) · as Karen Banks
1982
Kiss My Grits · as Doris Ann
1982
The Mississippi (TV Series) · as Deborah
1981
The Fall Guy (TV Series) · as Sandra Andrews
1981
Gimme a Break! (TV Series) · as Wendy
1981
Cagney & Lacey (TV Series)
1981
The Boogens · as Trish Michaels
1980
I'm a Big Girl Now (TV Series) · as Judy
1979
1979
The Silent Scream · as Scotty Parker
1979
The French Atlantic Affair (TV Series) · as Harriet Kleinfeld
1979
Trapper John, M.D. (TV Series) · as Anna Tinker
1979
Supertrain (TV Series) · as Ellen Bradford
1979
Makin' It (TV Series) · as Corky Crandall
1977
The Gathering · as Julie
1977
Deadly Game · as Amy Franklin
1977
Lou Grant (TV Series) · as Carla Mardigian
1977
Soap (TV Series) · as Carol David
1976
The Tony Randall Show (TV Series) · as Karen
1976
The Bionic Woman (TV Series)
1975
Starsky & Hutch (TV Series) · as Mickie Marra
1974
The Rockford Files (TV Series) · as Carol Lansing
1973
Barnaby Jones (TV Series) · as Maggie Revell
1960
Insight (TV Series) · as Galllmaufry
1952
This Is The Life (TV Series)

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