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      • Smart and Gilliland met while working together on comedy series Designing Women, aired from 1986 to 1993. The actor was cast in the role of Annie Potts' character's boyfriend, baseball talent scout J.D. Shackelford. "I met him when he was kissing someone else," Smart joked in 2017.
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  2. Jun 20, 2021 · Gilliland had a recurring role on "Designing Women," where he met his wife, playing the boyfriend of Annie Potts’ character. (“I met him when he was kissing someone else,” Smart joked during a...

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  3. Mar 26, 2021 · Gilliland's wife, Jean Smart, has not made a public statement. However, she confirmed her husband's death via representative Ame Vanlden on March 25, per USA Today. Gilliland and Smart had been married for nearly 34 years. The pair met on the set of Designing Women and became inseparable.

  4. Mar 26, 2021 · Richard Gilliland and Jean Smart met when he was locking lips with another woman. Kypros/Getty Images. In 2017, Jean Smart revealed she first met her husband Richard Gilliland in 1986...

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    In September last year, Smart paid tribute to her late husband in an interview with Variety, saying: "I just want people to know how much he's sacrificed for me to be where I am, and to get the opportunities that I've gotten and let his career kind of take a back seat to help take care of our home and our kids." "And it kills me he didn't get the c...

    2021 was a difficult year for Smart. Right as she was wrapping filming on her series Hacks, which earned her an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress, the star had to deal with the death of Gilliland. "He was a great dad, and he made me laugh every day," Smart told Variety, adding: "Him passing away was just not ever even a thought. And it's changed ev...

    Smart and Gilliland met while working together on comedy series Designing Women, aired from 1986 to 1993. The actor was cast in the role of Annie Potts' character's boyfriend, baseball talent scout J.D. Shackelford. "I met him when he was kissing someone else," Smart joked in 2017. As soon as she saw him on set, the actress took an interest in Gill...

    The couple have continued working together after sharing the screen on Designing Women, including on series 24. On the Fox series, they crossed paths as Captain Stan Cotter and First Lady Martha Logan respectively during season five. Smart and Gilliland were slated to star together in a film directed by Tate Taylor, set to film in the summer of 202...

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  5. Jun 21, 2021 · The pair met when Gilliland played Annie Pott's boyfriend on Designing Women, and they later worked together on 24, with Gilliland as Captain Stan Cotter and Smart as First Lady Martha Logan,...

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  6. May 17, 2024 · Smart met Gilliland when he was a guest star on the sitcom, Designing Women. “We just kind of bonded instantly. We were never apart from that day,” she recalled. The couple shared two sons.

  7. Jun 20, 2021 · In a new profile by the New Yorker, Smart, 69, reveals that she was still filming the latter show when her husband of nearly 34 years, actor Richard Gilliland, died suddenly of a heart...

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