Jaclyn Ellen Smith is an actress best known for the role of Kelly Garrett in the television series Charlie's Angels, Farrah Fawcett (her story, funeral) and Kate Jackson were two more of the angels.  Smith was the only original female lead to remain with the series for its complete run (1976–81).

October 26th birthday girl, Smith, became a well known face on television starring in over thirty made for TV movies and more recently was the hostess of Bravo's weekly competitive reality television show Shear Genius for its first two seasons.

Beginning in the 1980s, she began developing and marketing her own brands of clothing and perfume. She has often been voted one of the most beautiful women in the world.

On March 21, 1976 the first appearance of Smith playing the character Kelly Garrett in Charlie's Angels was aired as a movie of the week. The movie starred Kate Jackson, Farrah Fawcett (billed as Farrah Fawcett-Majors) and Smith as private investigators for Townsend Associates, a detective agency run by a reclusive multi-millionaire whom the women had never met. Voiced by John Forsythe, the Charles Townsend character presented cases and dispensed advice via a speakerphone to his core team of three female employees, to whom he referred as "Angels."

Smith's first acting venture outside the Angels mold was the CBS-TV movie of the week Escape from Bogen County (1977). Then came a leading role in Joyce Haber's The Users with Tony Curtis and John Forsythe in 1978.

Among the many film and television projects Smith was a part of, one that stood out was when she starred in the blockbuster TV movie Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy in 1981 and received a Best Actress nomination from the Golden Globe awards.

Other hits were Florence Nightingale, George Washington, Lies Before Kisses, The Rape of Dr. Willis, In the Arms of a Killer, and several TV versions of Danielle Steel novels, including Family Album (1994). Her then-husband Tony Richmond also directed her in the 1985 feature film Deja Vu.

Smith was honored in 1989 with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

From 2002 to 2004 Smith had a recurring role as Vanessa Cavanaugh in the series The District, which starred Craig T. Nelson. She reprised her Kelly Garrett role for a short cameo in the 2003 Charlie's Angels feature film, and appeared on episodes of "Hope and Faith". In May 2005, Smith starred as Judge Kay Woodbury in Hallmark’s production of Ordinary Miracles.

Smith's appearance on the 2006 Emmy telecast led Bravo TV’s producers to cast Smith as the celebrity host of Bravo’s weekly competitive reality series, Shear Genius, which began airing in March 2007. Shear Genius (Season 2) began airing June 25, 2008.