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Actress Jennifer Runyon, who made her name in the 1980s Scott Baio comedy “Charles In Charge” and her memorable appearance in 1984’s “Ghostbusters,” has died at age 65.
Runyon’s longtime friend, “Bewitched” actress Erin Murphy, announced the news Sunday on social media, saying Runyon had died after “a brief battle with cancer.”
Murphy, who wrote that “some people you know are going to be friends before you even meet them,” said Runyon was “a special lady.”
Born in Chicago in 1960, Runyon was the daughter of Jim Runyon, a popular radio disc jockey in the city, according to EW.com. In 1980, he moved to New York for a role on the NBC soap opera “Another World” before deciding to try his luck on the West Coast.
“I’ve been lucky because of the Californian look. When I started working as an actress, I was nervous about being pigeonholed,” she told television host Merv Griffin in 1984, adding, “andEverything I’ve done has been so different, so difficult for me. And this can only get better.”
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Runyon’s big break came in 1984, when she was cast in “Ghostbusters” and played a college student undergoing an ESP test alongside Bill Murray.
That same year, she had a role in the college sex comedy “Up The Creek” and played Gwendolyn Pierce in the first season of “Charles In Charge.”
Runyon also had roles on shows like “The Fall Guy,” “Quantum Leap” and “Magnum PI,” before playing Cindy Brady in the 1988 TV movie, “A Very Brady Christmas.”
In 1991, Runyon married Todd Corman, a college basketball coach who, according to Variety, worked in film and television production between seasons.
Although she starred for a few more years on shows like “Beverly Hills 90210” and “Murder She Wrote,” she spent most of the next two decades raising her son Wyatt and daughter Bayley, who followed in her footsteps into show business.
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Runyon said in a 2016 interview that while he stopped acting professionally, especially after moving to Idaho and Oregon, he taught art at his children’s schools when they were 10 and 12 years old.
“My hope was that this was a way to enlighten kids, showing them that it’s okay to stand in front of people; anyone can do this,” he said. “I was doing that for many years.”
Bayley Corman, now 20, honored her mother’s memory on Sunday in an Instagram post, writing, “all the best parts of me came from you.”
Runyon’s “Charles In Charge” co-stars also honored his memory on social media.
Scott Baio said on