Recently, she took time from her busy schedule - she's currently working on CBS's Hawaii Five-0 pilot and her upcoming film Life as We Know It - to shoot public service announcements for the Washington state area. "There are treatments out there and there is research being done, but glioblastoma needs a lot of support. It wasn't until Georgia had to quit driving because of her vision problems that an MRI confirmed the Smarts' worst fears: a large, fast-growing brain tumor. "She went to four eye specialists and not one of them ordered an MRI, even though they couldn't tell her what was wrong." Advocating for a Brain Cancer Cure The sooner you find it, the greater chance you have of treating it," Smart stresses, frustrated that her sister's vision problems went unchecked for far too long. It was a big night for Jean Smart at the 2022 SAG Awards. Smart has been working with CEF as a member of the board of directors to raise awareness since September 2009. "She was the most loyal, loving, generous person that I have ever met." "It's just been an unbelievable, heartbreaking thing," says Smart, who was in the room when her sister was diagnosed. Her older sister, Georgia, lost her nearly two-and-a-half-year battle with glioblastoma this past January. Sadly, Jean Smart's drive to find a cure for the disease hits close to home. Now, in one of her most important roles yet, the Seattle native has joined forces with the Chris Elliott Fund for Glioblastoma Brain Cancer Research (CEF) in Sammamish, Wash., to help raise awareness of and funds for one of the most aggressive forms of brain cancer.
JEAN SMARTS CHILDREN TV
She also made a splash as the emotionally unstable but smart wife of the president in the fifth season of Fox's TV thriller 24 in 2006. The blond beauty first made audiences laugh as Charlene Stillfield on CBS's Designing Women sitcom, won two Emmy Awards as Lana Gardner on NBC's Frasier, and took home a third for her role on ABC's comedic hit Samantha Who? in 2007. Thank you.Jean Smart is used to changing roles. Thank you all for working through a pandemic, you're all so creative and brave and wonderful and I love you all and I thank you all very much. "They're playing the music and I have to stop, so sorry. Oh my God Kathleen Felix-Hager who did my clothes, she turned me into a Vegas icon, so that took some doing. "We have production designers, my hair and make-up people, Keith and Jen. I mean she's a natural, she's a precious human being, she's incredible and every day we got to work is a joy and the words we get to say are a joy. But I could not have asked for person to bounce everything off of everyday. "And an unbelievable cast led by Hannah 'Mindbender' Einbinder-that's her actual name, no, I'm kidding. And my publicist extraordinaire, Ame Van Iden. And Jason Weinberg and everybody at Untitled, especially Dannielle Thomas.
And my incredible team.Scott Henderson at WME, he's been my agent forever, he's the best agent in the world. Oh my God, I'm gonna forget everybody's name, so sorry. "And Casey Bloys and everybody at HBO for your support. But I read this and said I have to do this, it checked off every box I was hoping for. First of all congratulations and congratulations on your wedding, I couldn't be there, I'm so sorry. They're both courageous individuals in their own right and they put up with Mommy commuting to Philadelphia and back. I would not be here without him, without him putting his career on the back burner so that I could take advantage of all the wonderful opportunities that I've had and my two incredible unselfish children, Connor and Forest.
Before I say anything else, I have to acknowledge my late husband Richard Gilliland, who passed away six months yesterday. "First of all, I want to congratulate my friends on Mare.
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See below Smart's full acceptance speech thanking her husband and others. Smart said her husband put "his career on the back burner so that I could take advantage of all the wonderful opportunities that I've had."
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