{"id":8956,"date":"2026-03-19T22:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T22:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/realtimebuzz.com\/?p=8956"},"modified":"2026-03-19T22:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T22:44:13","slug":"ghostbusters-star-jennifer-runyon-dead-at-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/realtimebuzz.com\/?p=8956","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Ghostbusters\u2019 star Jennifer Runyon dead at 65"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The news shattered fans in seconds. Jennifer Runyon, the bright, familiar face from Ghostbusters and Charles in Charge, is gone at just 65.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A private six\u2011month fight with cancer ended in a quiet goodbye, surrounded by family, love, and whispered prayers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But behind the headlines lies a life of unexpected choices, sudden retreat from fame, and a final, heartrending jour\u2026 Continues\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jennifer Runyon\u2019s story was never just about the roles that made her famous; it was about the warmth and grounded spirit she carried long after the cameras stopped rolling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rising to prominence in the 1980s, she brought a playful intelligence to Ghostbusters and an approachable charm to<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Charles in Charge, becoming a familiar presence in living rooms across America. Yet, at the height of her visibility,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>she quietly stepped away, choosing family life over the relentless churn of Hollywood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In her final months, that choice proved its deepest meaning. Surrounded by her husband, coach Todd Corman, and their children, Wyatt and Bayley,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Runyon faced cancer with the same quiet resilience she\u2019d shown in reshaping her life. Her family remembers not a celebrity, but a woman<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>devoted to laughter, loyalty, and faith. Her legacy now lives on in the stories she told, the people she loved, and the gentleness she left behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" src=\"https:\/\/realtimebuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/signal-2026-01-09-024205-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7478\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The news shattered fans in seconds. Jennifer Runyon, the bright, familiar face from Ghostbusters and Charles in Charge, is gone at just 65. A private six\u2011month fight&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/realtimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/realtimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/realtimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realtimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realtimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/realtimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8957,"href":"https:\/\/realtimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8956\/revisions\/8957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realtimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/realtimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realtimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realtimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}