Editing Kate Jackson (section)

==Early life and career==
Kate Jackson was born in [[Birmingham, Alabama]], the daughter of Ruth (née Shepherd) and Hogan Jackson, a business executive.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-3234 | title=Kate Jackson |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220608021537/http://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-3234 |archive-date=June 8, 2022}}</ref> She attended [[Altamont School|The Brooke Hill School for Girls]] while residing in [[Mountain Brook, Alabama|Mountain Brook]]. Jackson went on to enroll at the [[University of Mississippi]] as a history major where she was a member of the Delta Rho chapter of the [[Kappa Kappa Gamma]] [[sorority]].<ref>{{cite web| title=Delta Rho| url=https://wiki.kkg.org/pages/Delta_Rho| publisher=Kappa Kappa Gamma| date=August 8, 2017| access-date=September 14, 2017}}</ref> Halfway through her sophomore year, she transferred to [[Birmingham–Southern College]], a liberal arts college, taking classes in speech and history of the theatre. At the end of the academic year, Jackson became an apprentice at the Stowe Playhouse in [[Stowe, Vermont]], and then moved to New York City to study acting at the [[American Academy of Dramatic Arts]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Barnabas & Company: The Cast of the TV Classic Dark Shadows|last=Hamrick|first=Craig|publisher=iUniverse|year=2012|isbn=9781475910346|location=Bloomington|pages=210}}</ref>

Initially, Jackson worked as an [[NBC]] page and tour guide at the network's [[Rockefeller Center]] before landing a role as the mysterious, silent ghost Daphne Harridge on the 1960s [[supernatural]] daytime [[soap opera]] ''[[Dark Shadows]]''. In 1971, Jackson had a starring role as Tracy Collins in ''[[Night of Dark Shadows]]'', the second feature film based on the daytime serial. This film was more loosely based on the series than the first feature film ''[[House of Dark Shadows]]'' from the previous year, and it did not fare as well at the box office.<ref>{{cite book| editor1-last=Scott| editor1-first=Kathryn Leigh| editor2-last=Pierson| editor2-first=Jim| title=The Dark Shadows Movie Book| publisher=Pomegranate Press, Ltd.| location=Los Angeles| date=July 2, 1998| pages=[https://archive.org/details/darkshadowsmovie00kath/page/23 23–26]| isbn=978-0938817482| url-access=registration| url=https://archive.org/details/darkshadowsmovie00kath/page/23}}</ref> The same year, she appeared in two episodes of the short-lived sitcom ''[[The Jimmy Stewart Show]]''.{{Citation needed|date=July 2021}}

Jackson then appeared as nurse Jill Danko for four seasons on the 1970s [[crime drama]] ''[[The Rookies]]''. A supporting cast member, Jackson filled her free time by studying directing and editing.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://people.com/archive/cover-story-heavens-above-vol-6-no-23/ |title=Heavens Above! |first=Lois |last=Armstrong |work=[[People (magazine)|People]] |date=December 6, 1976 |access-date=December 14, 2018}}</ref> She also appeared in several TV films during this period. Jackson's performance was well received in the 1972 [[independent film]] ''[[Limbo (1972 film)|Limbo]]'', one of the first theatrical films to address the [[Vietnam War]] and the wives of soldiers who were [[POW]]s, [[Missing in action|MIA]] or killed in action.<ref>{{cite journal| title=Limbo: Cast & Crew| url=http://www.tvguide.com/movies/limbo/cast/104322/| journal=[[TV Guide]] |access-date=September 14, 2017}}</ref> She also appeared in ''[[Death Scream]]'',<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-06-10 |title=Death Scream (1975) |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/22789/death-scream/#credits |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220610022846/https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/22789/death-scream/#credits |archive-date=2022-06-10 |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=Turner Classic Movies}}</ref> a 1975 television dramatization of the circumstances surrounding the 1964 [[murder of Kitty Genovese]].