Jon Paré: Who Is Rebecca Balding First Husband?
Olivia House
Published Feb 26, 2026
Jon Paré was the first husband of Rebecca Balding, an American actress best known for her appearances on Soap and Charmed.
Details of the year Pare and Balding got married as well as the year they got divorced is not available as of now.
Jon Paré: Who Is Rebecca Balding First Husband?
Jon Paré, Rebecca Balding’s first husband is a producer and production manager. He is best known for Cyborg (1989), Charmed (1998) and The Passage (2019).
There’s no further information on John Pare. However, his ex-wife Rebecca Balding has died. She died on July 18, 2022 aged 73, following complications from ovarian cancer.
Balding was born in Little Rock, Arkansas and attended the University of Kansas.
She had the role of Carol David, mother of Jodie Dallas’ child, on Soap, appearing in 19 episodes from 1978 through 1980.
Balding played Corky Crandall in 1979 in the sitcom Makin’ It, as well as the original female reporter Carla Mardigian during the first three episodes of the inaugural 1977 season of the drama series Lou Grant, starring Ed Asner, before that character was written out for a different female reporter.
That same year (1977), she again appeared with Asner, playing his daughter Julie, in the classic Christmas TV film, The Gathering. Also in 1977, Balding played Amy Franklin in Deadly Game, a movie that starred Andy Griffith and James Cromwell.
In 1980 she starred in the pilot of the sitcom Mr. and Mrs. and Mr., that was never progressed as a series. In 1996 she made a guest appearance on 7th Heaven as Ellen, the mother of Matt’s new girlfriend Tia.