she played the brilliant Dr. Janet Ross, a psychiatrist who accurately predicts her patient's destructive behavior, opposite actors George Segal, Donald Moffat, and Richard Dysart. In 1978, she appeared in a PBS adaptation of Mourning Becomes Electra as Christine Mannon. Her performance in that production earned her some of the best reviews of her career. Clive James said that it entitled her to be called a great actress. The same year, she was a regular in the cast of the short-lived CBS situation comedy Another Day, portraying Ginny Gardner. She appeared in the September 22, 1979, episode "Grass Is Always Greener" of The Love Boat as Julie McCoy's former classmate from the line's cruise director course. Hackett won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the 1981 film Only When I Laugh, the last film she made before her death. She could also be seen in Paul Simon's 1980 film One Trick Pony. Personal life and death From 1966 to 1973 she was married to actor Richard Mulligan, who was also cast in The Group. Hackett was diagnosed with cancer in 1981. She died of ovarian cancer on October 8, 1983, at Encino Hospital in Encino, California. A funeral mass was held on Wednesday, October 12, 1983, at St. Victor Catholic Church in Los Angeles, California. Her remains are entombed in The Abbey of The Psalms Mausoleum at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, where her epitaph reads: "Go Away — I'm Asleep". Partial filmography . The Group (1966) - Dottie Renfrew Latham Will Penny (1967) - Catherine Allen Assignment to Kill (1968) - Dominique Laurant Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969) - Prudy Perkins The Young Country (1970 TV movie) - Clementine Hale How Awful About Allan (1970 TV movie) - Olive The Other Man (1970 TV movie) - Kathy Maitland Five Desperate Women (1971 TV movie) - Dorian Rivals (1972) - Christine The Last of Sheila (1973) - Lee Parkman The Terminal Man (1974) - Dr. Janet Ross Reflections of Murder (1974 TV movie) - Claire Elliott Mackintosh and T.J. (1975) - Maggie Treasure of Matecumbe (1976) - Lauriette Paxton Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model? (1977) - Jessica Hillard Dead of Night (1977) - Mother (segment "Bobby") The Possessed (1977 TV movie) - Louise Gelson Pleasure Cove (1979 TV movie) - Martha