Sylvia Gold Dead: Longtime TV Talent Agent At ICM Repped Bailik, Danza & Others

Sylvia Gold, a longtime TV talent agent at ICM who repped Mayim Bialik, Tony Danza, Susan Lucci, John Ritter and many other TV stars, has died. A friend and former colleague told Deadline that Gold died January 3 of heart failure in Los Angeles but did not provide her age or a cause of death.

During her long entertainment industry career that began in the mid-1960s, Gold represented such television greats such as Bialik, Danza, Lucci, Ritter, Judith Light, Adam Arkin, Rue McClanahan, Lindsay Wagner, and Charlie’s Angels stars Jaclyn Smith and Cheryl Ladd.

Watch The Golden Girls star McClanahan name-check Gold to start a funny story from a 2006 interview with the Television Foundation about how the actress nearly was cast as Rose rather than Blanche on that classic 1985-92 NBC sitcom:

Born in Brighton Beach, NY, Gold began her career as a shoe model, later moving to Los Angeles to join her brother, Oscar-nominated The Naked Spur writer and Emergency! series creator Harold Jack Bloom. Soon after her arrival in 1965, she launched her career as a secretary to Ina Bernstein at Ashley-Famous (later known as International Famous Agency). It wasn’t long before she was promoted to agent and began making her mark in the talent representation field.

In 1975, Gold joined the newly formed talent agency International Creative Management, where she rose to President of Television Talent and worked until her retirement. Later renamed ICM Partners after a management buyout, the agency was acquired by CAA in 2022.

In a 2005 interview with TV Week, ICM’s then-EVP and Head of Worldwide Television Robert Levinson said, “Sylvia Gold always said to me, ‘There can only be one star, and it better be the one who’s paying you.’”

She is survived by a nephew, three daughters-in-law and six grandchildren.