Brenda Irene Dickson ) is an American

United States

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 actress who originated the role of Jill Foster Abbott

Jill Foster Abbott

Jill Abbott Fenmore is a fictional character on the CBS daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless. She is one of the series' original characters, and the only one remaining from its debut in March 1973...

 on the soap opera

Soap opera

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 The Young and the Restless

The Young and the Restless

The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictional Wisconsin town called Genoa City, which is unlike and unrelated to the real life village of the same name, Genoa City, Wisconsin...

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Work

Dickson portrayed the character Jill on The Young and the Restless from 1973 to 1980, then again from 1983 to 1987.

Apart from The Young and the Restless, Dickson also had roles in the dramas The Storefront Lawyers

The Storefront Lawyers

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and The F.B.I., the comedies Love, American Style

Love, American Style

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and Here We Go Again

Here We Go Again (TV series)

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, and the primetime soap opera Falcon Crest

Falcon Crest

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Dickson also released a vanity film in the 1980s dubbed "Welcome to My Home," showcasing her lavish abode and a plethora of vogue outfits that would now be deemed retro, kitsch or camp. A parody published on YouTube became an Internet meme

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, and has since been taken down and re-uploaded several times.

Personal life

In 2007, Dickson was jailed in Hawaii because of a civil contempt order stemming from a divorce judgment from her ex-husband, lawyer Jan Weinberg. She said she was the victim and wasn't given a fair divorce hearing. Released after 16 days, she was sent back to jail and eventually released after more than three months.
In 2009, the judgment in Weinberg v. Dickson was set aside as an appeal's court found that the judge in the original trial had abused his discretion in not guaranteeing Dickson a fair trial and that Dickson's imprisonment had been unlawful.

Awards and nominations

• 1986 Soap Opera Digest Award nomination for Outstanding Villainess in a Daytime Serial The Young and the Restless
  The Young and the Restless
  The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictional Wisconsin town called Genoa City, which is unlike and unrelated to the real life village of the same name, Genoa City, Wisconsin...
  
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• 1988 Soap Opera Digest Award for Outstanding Villainess in a Daytime Serial The Young and the Restless
  The Young and the Restless
  The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictional Wisconsin town called Genoa City, which is unlike and unrelated to the real life village of the same name, Genoa City, Wisconsin...
  
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