A television star best known for her work on a popular sitcom has died.
Danielle Spencer, known for playing the role of Dee Thomas on the series “What’s Happening!!” has died at 60, according to People.
In a post on Instagram, Spencer’s costar Heywood Nelson shared that “Dr. Dee, our brilliant, loving, positive, pragmatic warrior, without fail, has finally found her release from the clutches of this world and a body.”
“We celebrate Danielle Spencer and her contributions as we regret to inform her departure and transition from a long battle with cancer,” Nelson wrote. “We have lost a daughter, sister, family member, ‘What’s Happening’ cast member, veterinarian animal rights proponent and healer, and cancer heroine. Our Shero. Danielle is loved. She will be missed in this form and forever embraced.”
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Spencer started acting at age 7 in a theater company co-founded by her stepfather, actor Tim Pelt. Spencer and Pelt were involved in a car accident in 1977, which left her seriously injured and her stepfather dead.
She wrote about the ordeal and losing Pelt in her book, “Through the Fire … Journal of a Child Star” released in 2010.
While she would occasionally return to the screen for both television and film roles, Spencer pursued a career in veterinary medicine, and even combined both careers by playing one in the film “As Good as It Gets.”
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