Marjorie "Jackie" Goldufski (née Harris; born September 14, 1956) is played by Laurie Metcalf on the series. She is the younger sister of Roseanne Conner by three years, the sister-in-law to Dan Conner, and the loving and caring aunt to Becky Healy, Darlene Olinsky, D.J. Conner, and Jerry Garcia Conner.
Biography[]
Marjorie "Jackie" Goldufski (née Harris) was born and raised on September 14, 1956 to Beverly Harris (née Schrift) and Al Harris. She has one older sibling Roseanne Conner.
She is a warm and caring person, but is also neurotic, a trait which only grows more.
When Roseanne and Jackie were little kids, Roseanne could never pronounce her sister's name right and always called her "My Jackie" until she just became Jackie.
As Jackie grows up, she reveals that she had many relationships and blames the reason for her failed relationships on the physical, emotional, and verbal abuse on her father. She revealed that from her teenage years to her early adult years, she had many relationships (3 men a year for 20 years). She attended Lanford High School with Roseanne and Dan. She never went to college.
She had many boyfriends that included Ziggy Walsh, Booker Brooks (one of her bosses at Wellman Plastics), Gary Hall, Fisher (who was physically abusive), and Fred (her husband, whom she married, then later divorced and as a son with).
In season 6 Labor Day, Jackie finds out she's pregnant from a one-night-stand. In season 7 Husbands and Wives, Jackie and Fred get married after he decided to sue Jackie for the custody of their unborn child.
Throughout the series, Jackie worked at several jobs:
- Wellman Plastics with Roseanne with whom she walked out.
- A police officer during which she injured and quit rather than being forced to take a desk job.
- An actress/clerk at the local community theatre.
- A spray girl in the cosmetic department of Rodbell's Department Store.
- A truck driver which she later quits
- Co-owner of the Lanford Lunchbox with Roseanne, Nancy Thomas (née Barlett), Beverly Harris, and later Leon Carp. During her time as a truck driver, she bought a "loose-meat" sandwich, which led to her her and Roseanne deciding to open the restaurant.
- Painting hobby
- Life Coach
- E-Coach
It's revealed in the final episode of the series that rather than their mother being a lesbian, it was Jackie. Roseanne simply wrote her sister having the long string of boyfriends because she could always picture Jackie being with a man. However, it's later revealed in Season 10 that this fact was part of the book that Roseanne was writing and not actually true. She currently lives by herself without her son Andy. She later adopts a dog with the intentions of giving it to Becky after she buys a house. She had a falling out with Roseanne over the 2016 Presidential Election.
After her mom Beverly is kicked out of her nursing home, she is forced to live with Jackie. Although Jackie is very against the idea at first, they later overcome their issues and try to get along. After Roseanne's death, Jackie is left confused and unsure of herself on how to include herself within the Conner family. Dan assures her she's always welcomed just as she was when Roseanne was alive.
In 2019, Jackie actively pursues The Lunch Box, which had been leased to a Chinese restaurant after Roseanne lost interest in the Tavern Sandwich place. This left Beverly in charge entirely, and secretly ran the place into the ground. After the fed-up Chinese left, Beverly decided to give her estate to Darlene. When Dan decided to encourage Jackie, she eventually won management of The Lunch Box and created a new menu for it again. Becky joins her, still working at Casita Bonita as well, and they have occasional disagreements.
In 2020, Jackie starts painting. She brings in large annoying paintings to display in at the Lunch Box, which is exactly what Beverly did in 1992.
Later in 2023, she lets her great-niece Harris Conner Healy make all the important decisions regarding The Lunch Box.
Relationships[]
Family:
Al Harris - Father (deceased)
Beverly Harris - Mother
Mary Schrift - Maternal Grandmother (deceased)
Andy Harris - Son
Roseanne Conner - Sister (deceased)
Dan Conner - Brother-in-law
Becky Healy (née Conner) - Niece
Darlene Olinsky (née Conner) - Niece
D.J. Conner - Nephew
Jerry Garcia Conner - Nephew
Beverly Rose Conner - Great-niece (Becky and Emilio's daughter)
Harris Healy - Great-niece (David and Darlene's Daughter)
Mark Healy II - Great-nephew (David and Darlene's Son)
David Healy - Ex-Nephew-in-law (Darlene's ex-husband and Harris and Mark Healy II's father)
Mark Healy - Former Nephew-in-law (Becky's husband/deceased)
Ben Olinsky - Nephew-in-law (Darlene's Husband)
Geena Conner (née Williams) - Niece-in-law (D.J.'s wife and Mary's mother)
Mary Conner - Great-niece (D.J. and Geena's daughter)
Romantic Relationships:
Ziggy Walsh - Norbert "Ziggy" Walsh was one of Jackie's first boyfriend and the guy she lost her virginity to. They dated for a while in Season 4 when Ziggy was going to go into the bike shop business with Dan and Roseanne, but when he changed his mind and backed out, Jackie broke up with him.
Booker Brooks - Booker and Jackie dated at the beginning of the series when she worked at Wellman Plastics Factory. Booker was one of her bosses. They broke up after he cheated on her.
Gary Hall - In 1990, Gary and Jackie dated when she was a police officer at Lanford Police Department. He was skeptical of the relationship because of her being on the force and finally couldn't take it anymore and they broke up in the episode Goodbye Mr. Right.
Fisher - Jackie and Fisher dated from 1992-1993. Roseanne and Jackie got into a huge fight because Jackie was spending all her time with Fisher when she wasn't working. One night, Jackie came over to Roseanne's and they reconciled their relationship. When she was upstairs changing her shirt, Darlene (thinking it was D.J. in the bathroom) burst in and saw that Jackie's back was covered in bruises. When Darlene brought it up to Roseanne, she saw the bruises on her back and took her to the hospital. When Dan found out about the abuse, he went over to Jackie and Fisher's apartment just to scare Fisher and they ended up getting into physical altercation. This resulted in Dan getting arrested. Fisher later dropped the charges and him and Jackie broke up.
Peter - Jackie briefly lived with Peter, an unemployed academic, but threw him out after he cheated on her.
Fred - Fred is Dan's co-worker at the city garage. After a one-night stand, Jackie ended up getting pregnant. When Dan and Roseanne got into a fight, Dan talked Fred into suing Jackie for custody of their unborn child. Thanks to Fred's assertiveness, that turned a button on for Jackie and they ended up getting married. Jackie and Fred have a son name Andy.
Prince Carlos - Jackie and Carlos dated for several months and were serious about each other. They ended up breaking up after she found out he married a chambermaid that worked in the West Wing of his palace when she read about his marriage in their local newspaper.
Neville Goldufski - Jackie began dating Neville in Season 3 of the spin-off The Conners. She met Neville through her sister-in-law Louise Conner (née Goldufski) (Dan's wife in The Conners). Neville is Louise's brother who is a veterinarian.
Trivia[]
- Staring with the episode "The Separation of Church and Dan" of The Conners, she has become the most prolific character, appearing in more than 231 episodes. Beating the amount of episodes Roseanne appeared in.
- Starting with "Past Imperfect" from Season 6 of Roseanne, Jackie has shorter hair. This hairstyle will remain for the rest of the series and even most of the spin-off series The Conners.
- In The Conners, she gets married to Neville Goldufski.
- She also has a strained relationship with his sister.
List of Appearances[]
Across 10 seasons of Roseanne, Jackie Harris was only absent in 3 episodes. She has appeared in every episode of The Conners so far.
| Roseanne (TV series) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | # | |
| Season 1 | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | - | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | N/A | 22 | ||
| Season 2 | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | N/A | 24 | |
| Season 3 | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | N/A | 25 |
| Season 4 | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | - | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | N/A | 24 |
| Season 5 | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | N/A | 25 |
| Season 6 | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | N/A | 25 |
| Season 7 | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | 26 |
| Season 8 | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | N/A | 25 |
| Season 9 | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | - | X | X | N/A | 23 | |
| Season 10 | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | N/A | 9 | ||||||||||||||||
| Total | 228 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The Conners | |||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | # | |
| Season 1 | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | 11 | |||||||||||
| Season 2 | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | 20 | ||
| Season 3 | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | 20 | ||
| Season 4 | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | 20 | ||
| Season 5 | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | 22 |
| Season 6 | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | 13 | |||||||||
| Total | 106 | ||||||||||||||||||||||