Sylvia Gold, a longtime TV talent agent at ICM who repped Mayim Bialik, Tony Danza, Susan Lucci, John Ritter and many other TV stars, has died. A friend and former colleague told Deadline that Gold died January 3 of heart failure in Los Angeles but did not provide her age or a cause of death.
During her long entertainment industry career that began in the mid-1960s, Gold represented such television greats such as Bialik, Danza, Lucci, Ritter, Judith Light, Adam Arkin, Rue McClanahan, Lindsay Wagner, and Charlie’s Angels stars Jaclyn Smith and Cheryl Ladd.
Watch The Golden Girls star McClanahan name-check Gold to start a funny story from a 2006 interview with the Television Foundation about how the actress nearly was cast as Rose rather than Blanche on that classic 1985-92 NBC sitcom:
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Born in Brighton Beach, NY, Gold began her career as
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