ACTRESS Roseanna Christiansen from Dallas and The Jeffersons has died at age 71.
The cause of her death is unknown at this time.
The star passed away on July 14 at Antelope Valley Medical Center in Lancaster, California.
Christiansen was best known for her role as Teresa, a Southfork ranch maid, on the final nine seasons of the show, Dallas.
She joined the show during its sixth season in 1982.
Her character, Teresa, worked alongside the butler, Raoul, who was played by Tony Garcia.
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Before Dallas, she played another maid, Carmen, in the 1981 season of The Jeffersons.
This was a short replacement role for Marla Gibbs’ character as Christiansen only appeared in three episodes.
Gibbs originally left the show to star in her own spinoff, Checking in.
However, the spinoff was unsuccessful and only lasted four episodes, which prompted Gibbs to return to her role on The Jeffersons.
Christiansen started her acting career young. At the age of nine, she was in an off-off-Broadway play with her brother, Victor.
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The actress from New York is survived by her husband, Steven Rizzo, children Josiah and Grace, and her sister, Elba.
Christiansen is remembered as a brilliant acting coach in the school she founded, Action! Acting.
“Many of her students refer to their private sessions as their ‘therapy sessions,’” her husband told The Hollywood Reporter.
“Though in years her life was too short, she spent enough time here to plant the seeds of love, encouragement and beauty into everyone she met.”
Christiansen also appeared in Matlock, CBS Summer Playhouse, and A Year in the Life, TV Line reported.
She was even in two movies – This Is Kate Bennett and Temporary Insanity.
