Background
Dickson was born in Long Beach, California.
Dickson was born in Long Beach, California.
Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute.
As a teenager, she toured Southeast Asia singing and dancing for the armed forces with Bob Hope. This led to acting offers but Dickson decided to continue performing at United Service Organizations shows while studying acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in Los Los Angeles Dickson made her stage debut at the Beverly Hills Playhouse and went on to appear in stage roles in the Los Angeles area.
She made her feature film debut in the 1972 film Deathmaster.
She has also appeared in guest roles on Men at Law and The Federal Bureau of Investigation, Love, American Style, Here We Go Again, and the prime-time soap opera Falcon Crest. Dickson portrayed the character Jill Foster Abbott on The Young and the Restless from 1973 to 1980, then again from 1983 to 1987.
Dickson was fired from the show in 1987. She filed a $10 million lawsuit against Columbia Pictures in an effort to be reinstated.
In the lawsuit, Dickson claimed that William J. Bell blacklisted her after 15 years on the show after they partook in a secret love affair and that he then went on to wreak havoc on her personal and professional life by hiring "Mafia cartel judges and attorneys" to "ruin" her life.
As a result, she ended up "broke and homeless" and has been blocked from working ever since. In 1987, Dickson released the film Welcome to My Home. Described as a "vanity film", Welcome to My Home showcases Dickson"s lavish home and a plethora of outfits.
A parody published on YouTube became an Internet meme, and has since been taken down and re-uploaded several times.
In May 2013, Blue Boulevard Publications released Dickson"s memoir, My True Hidden Hollywood Story.
1986 Soap Opera Digest Award nomination for Outstanding Villainess in a Daytime Serial The Young and the Restless. 1988 Soap Opera Digest Award for Outstanding Villainess in a Daytime Serial The Young and the Restless. Best Hollywood Memoir (Female) by the Hollywood Writers" Guild (2014) My True Hidden Hollywood Story.
