Dr. Danielle Spencer, ‘What’s Taking place!!” Star, Dies At 60

Dr. Danielle Spencer, an actor who gained fame by the Nineteen Seventies hit sitcom What’s Taking place!!, has handed away, based on a social media publish. Whereas we await official phrase from the household of Dr. Danielle Spencer, we’ll share what we’ve discovered up to now.

Through the Instagram account of What’s Taking place!! co-star Haywood Nelson, the information was delivered that Danielle Spencer handed away on Monday (August 11) after battling a well being concern.

Extra from Nelson’s web page:

Dr. Dee, our sensible, loving, optimistic, pragmatic warrior, with out fail, has lastly discovered her launch from the clutches of this world and a physique. We have fun Danielle Spencer and her contributions as we remorse to tell her departure and transition from an extended battle with most cancers.

We have now misplaced a daughter, sister, member of the family, “What’s Taking place” solid member, veterinarian animal rights proponent and healer, and most cancers heroine. Our Shero. Danielle is cherished. She will likely be missed on this kind and eternally embraced

Dr. Spencer was born on June 24, 1965, based on her Wikipedia web page, and performed the position of Dee Thomas on What’s Taking place!! from 1976 till 1979. She would return to the position of Thomas within the spinoff sequence, What’s Taking place Now!!

Spencer attended the College of California-Davis in 1983 to check drugs, based on her IMDB biography. She was impressed to enter that area of examine after her stepfather handed away in an car accident. She discontinued her research to look in What’s Taking place Now!! and later entered the Tuskegee College Veterinary Faculty in Alabama.

Though Spencer would act sparingly within the Nineteen Eighties by the early 2000s, she shifted careers and have become a veterinarian and granted interviews at sure intervals.

Dr. Danielle Spencer was 60.

[h/t New York Amsterdam News]

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