Jill Whelan
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Whelan meeting First Lady Nancy Reagan in 1984
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| Born |
September 29, 1966 Oakland, California, U.S. |
| Residence | Los Angeles, California |
| Occupation | Actress, radio talk show host |
| Years active | 1973–present |
| Children | 2 |
Jill Whelan (born September 29, 1966) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Vicki Stubing, the daughter of Captain Stubing in the hit television series The Love Boat.
After attending summer acting camp at age 7, Whelan landed a series of commercials. At age 11, she was cast in the short-lived TV series Friends (a little-known 1979 series). Later that year, Whelan played the role of Lisa Davis, the sick girl, in Airplane! After The Love Boat was canceled in 1986, she worked on an album titled Our Time. During the early 1980s, Whelan served as a national spokesman for First Lady Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No" anti-drug campaign. She later took a role on the long-running TV soap opera The Young and the Restless.
On November 25, 2001, Whelan appeared on an episode of The Weakest Link, a trivia game show hosted by Anne Robinson. Whelan competed against other celebrity TV stars, including Mackenzie Phillips, Nell Carter, Cindy Williams, Joan Van Ark, Erin Moran, Erik Estrada, and Fred "Re-run" Berry. She outlasted the others, winning $57,000 for her charity.
On September 10, 2008, Whelan appeared with several other cast members from the movie Airplane! in a reunion segment on NBC's the Today Show. In October 2008, Whelan made her New York City cabaret debut with her one-woman show Jill Whelan: An Evening In Dry Dock at The Metropolitan Room. From September to November 2011, Whelan appeared in the British farce Move Over Mrs. Markham at Stage West Theatre Restaurant in the Toronto, Ontario area.
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