Jennifer Runyon, 'Ghostbusters' and 'A Very Brady Christmas' actor, dies at 65

Jennifer Runyon, a movie and tv histrion known champion for her roles connected “Ghostbusters,” “A Very Brady Christmas” and “Charles successful Charge,” has died. She was 65.

Runyon died Friday, according to a Sunday connection reportedly posted to her societal media account, which has since gone private.

“This past Friday, our beloved Jennifer passed away. It was a agelong and arduous travel that ended with her surrounded by her family,” the connection read, according to ABC7. “She volition ever beryllium remembered for her emotion of beingness and her devotion to her household and friends. Rest successful bid our Jenn.”

“Bewitched” histrion Erin Murphy shared successful a Sunday station connected Facebook and Instagram that Runyon died “after a little conflict with cancer.”

“Some radical you conscionable cognize you’ll beryllium friends with earlier you adjacent meet,” Murphy wrote successful her tribute. “She was a peculiar lady.”

On the 1980s sitcom “Charles successful Charge,” Runyon portrayed Gwendolyn Pierce, a chap assemblage pupil of the show’s titular live-in housekeeper (portrayed by Scott Baio) and the people of his affections.

In his Facebook tribute, chap “Charles successful Charge” histrion Willie Aames described Runyon arsenic a “dear beloved friend, muse, and encourager.”

“From the infinitesimal we met connected acceptable each those decades ago- I knew you ‘got me,’” wrote Aames. “Watching you gaffe distant these past fewer months was 1 of the hardest times of my life… I tin inactive perceive your dependable truthful clearly. No 1 volition ever beryllium capable to capable the monolithic spread that’s been near successful our hearts… ever.”

A Chicago native, Runyon made her tv debut arsenic Sally Frame successful the long-running soap opera “Another World.” She besides appeared successful episodes of “Magnum, P.I.,” “Quantum Leap” and “Murder, She Wrote.” Runyon besides portrayed the grown-up Cindy Brady successful “A Very Brady Christmas.”

Her movie credits see the 1984 classical “Ghostbusters,” wherever she appeared arsenic 1 of the students participating successful the ESP survey conducted by Bill Murray’s Peter Venkman.

On Instagram, Runyon’s girl Bayley Corman, an histrion who has appeared connected TV shows specified arsenic “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina,” “Bel-Air” and “Running Point,” described her parent arsenic “the kindest astir compassionate idiosyncratic i’ve ever known.”

“All of the champion parts of maine came from you,” Corman wrote successful her tribute. “i would springiness thing for 1 much time together.”