[Deathwatch] Cecily Adams, actress, 39

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Note, the bottom article lists the age as 46 - I belive it is actually
39 - Ed.

Obituary: Cecily Adams
March 5, 2004

Cecily Adams, 39, an actress, casting director and the daughter of "Get
Smart" television star Don Adams, died of lung cancer Wednesday in Los
Angeles. She appeared in the 1990s syndicated series "Star Trek: Deep
Space Nine," playing the mother of Ferengi bar owner Quark, and had
guest roles in TV shows including "Just Shoot Me,"Murphy Brown" and
"Party of Five." Adams' mother, Adelaide Adams, was a singer. Don Adams
gained fame as bumbling agent Maxwell Smart in the 1960s spy spoof "Get
Smart."


03.04.2004
Ferengi Family Member Cecily Adams Dies
 
Cecily Adams, the second actress to step into the role of "Ishka" in
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and who reprised the role at conventions for
"The Ferengi Family Hour," has died after a four-month battle with lung
cancer. She was 46.

Adams died Wednesday at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles,
according to her agent Bruce Tufeld. Her husband, actor Jim Beaver, was
with her.

"She was a lovely, lovely girl,'' Tufeld said in an Associated Press
report. "We were all destroyed by it.''

The daughter of Get Smart star Don Adams and singer Adelaide Adams was
both an actress and a casting director. She concentrated more on
casting in recent years and "was great with actors because she was an
actor,'' Tufeld said. She was working on Fox's That '70s Show at the
time of her death.

"She was a fighter. She worked up until the end,'' Tufeld said.

Adams took over the role of the female Ferengi that was originated by
Andrea Martin beginning with "Ferengi Love Songs" and for three more
episodes after that. "Ishka," nicknamed "Moogie," was the secretly
brilliant mother of Quark and Rom, who became the lover of Grand Nagus
Zek and convinced him to reform Ferengi society to raise the stature of
women.

According to the "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion" by Terry J.
Erdmann, Adams loved the part she was playing, despite the prosthetics.
"She never backs down," Adams said proudly in reference to "The
Magnificent Ferengi." "I feel very fortunate to play her. She's made me
grow as an actor and as a person."

For a couple of years, Adams joined castmates Max Grodenchik, Aron
Eisenberg, Chase Masterson, and DS9 preproduction coordinator Lolita
Fatjo to tour Star Trek conventions with the hilarious sketch called
"The Ferengi Family Hour" where they reprised their respective
characters in a post-DS9 time-travelling adventure to Disneyland.

Adams had guest roles in a variety of other TV shows including Just
Shoot Me, Murphy Brown and Party of Five.

Besides her husband, parents and siblings, she is survived by a
two-year-old daughter, Madeline.

UPDATE: A public memorial service will be held at the Directors Guild
of America, 7920 Sunset Blvd. in West Hollywood, on Saturday, March 13,
2004 at 1 p.m.	Donations in lieu of flowers can be made to the Cecily
Adams Fund, c/o Theatre West, 3333 Cahuenga Blvd. West, Los Angeles, CA
90068.