(NEXSTAR) – Suzanne Somers, well-known for her roles in “Three’s Firm” and “Step by Step,” has died, in accordance with a number of studies.
In an announcement to Individuals and Selection, Somers’ publicist R. Couri Hay mentioned the 76-year-old “handed away peacefully at dwelling within the early morning hours of October fifteenth.”
“She survived an aggressive type of breast most cancers for over 23 years,” the assertion added. She was identified with a second bout of breast most cancers earlier this yr.
Somers was planning on spending Monday, her birthday, together with her “nearest and dearest,” she beforehand advised Individuals.
“Her household was gathered to have a good time her 77th birthday on October sixteenth,” Hay’s assertion continued. “As a substitute, they’ll have a good time her extraordinary life, and need to thank her hundreds of thousands of followers and followers who beloved her dearly.”
Somers’ first on-screen look was within the 1968 movie “Bullitt,” in accordance with her IMDb web page, although she was uncredited. She additionally appeared in “American Graffiti,” “The Rockford Information,” and “One Day at a Time.”
Then, in 1977, she was forged as one of many feminine leads in ABC’s “Three’s Firm.” Somers would go on to play Chrissy Snow in 100 episodes of the present. She additionally performed Sheriff Hildy Granger in “She’s the Sheriff,” which ran for 44 episodes within the late Eighties.
After 44 episodes as Sheriff Granger, Somers turned Carol Foster Lambert in “Step by Step,” a “Brady Bunch”-like sitcom that first aired in 1991.
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