Miami, October 15 (EFE).- Actress Suzanne Somers, the blonde heroine of the hit TV series “Three’s a Crowd,” died this Sunday of cancer at the age of 76, People magazine reported.
According to her publicist, Somers “passed away peacefully” at her home in Palm Springs, California, early this morning after more than 23 years of surviving aggressive breast cancer. The actress died a day before her birthday.
Born in San Bruno, California, the actress began her career in small roles in the late 1960s and early 1960s, but rose to fame on the ABC series “Three’s Company” in English.
In it, Somers plays Chrissie Snow, one of two roommates (the other, Janet Wood, played by Joyce DeWitt) who agrees to rent out a third room to John Ritter’s character, Jack Tripper. Be gay in compliance with building codes.
One of the most popular shows of its time, the show aired between 1977 and 1984, although the performer was fired in 1980 amid a fight over pay rises.
Somers asked for a raise from the $30,000 she was getting an episode to $150,000, the same salary that Ritter and other male stars at the network earned.
Executives only gave him a $5,000 raise. Somers missed the taping of two episodes, after which ABC fired her and she was replaced by various actresses in subsequent seasons.
Somers appeared in other series and television shows in subsequent years. However, success smiled on her again as an entrepreneur, who founded the healthy living company Thickmaster with her husband Alan Hamel, through which she earned millions of dollars and became a guru on the subject.
She wrote twenty books, some of which were bestsellers and mostly focused on women’s well-being.
She is survived by her husband and son Bruce.
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