- Worked with Chuck Connors on three different occasions: in L'irresistibile Mr. John (1953); in a 1958 episode of The Rifleman (1958); and in a 1966 episode of Branded (1965).
- Best known for her roles as Terry Williams on Make Room for Daddy (1953) and as the android Andrea in What Are Little Girls Made Of? (1966).
- In 1967 she began a five-year relationship with business executive and racehorse breeder Fletcher Jones, which ended on November 7, 1972, when Jones was killed in a plane crash eight miles east of Santa Ynez Airport in Santa Barbara County, CA.
- Five months after boyfriend Fletcher Jones' death, she filed suit against his estate, asking for more than $1 million, with her attorneys stating that Jones promised to provide her with at least $25,000 a year for the rest of her life. The litigation proved to be unsuccessful.
- In 1961, Jackson and actress Diane McBain shared an apartment together. At the time, McBain's character on the ABC television series Surfside 6 (1960) was romantically involved with co-star Troy Donahue, who, in real life, was then romantically involved with Jackson.
- Her mother provided drama, singing and dancing lessons for Sherry and her two brothers, Curtis L. Jackson and Gary L. Jackson, "from the time they were very little".
- Shared a birthday with her television brother, Rusty Hamer, five years apart. Later on Rusty ran into all sorts of personal and financial problems where his sad and sorry life spiraled down into deep depression where eventually alcohol abuse caused him to be increasingly violent and delusional, and suffering from chronic back pain, he shot himself to death in his trailer on January 18, 1990. He was only 42.
- Profiled in the 2016 book, "X Child Stars: Where Are They Now?", by Kathy Garver and Fred Ascher.
- In an interesting connection, she was a guest star on the Maverick (1957) episode, Red Dog (1961), which formerly starred James Garner, and, in 1975, guest starred on Garner's Agenzia Rockford (1974) series, in the episode The Real Easy Red Dog (1975).
- Beautiful, experienced actress who had the notoriety of enhancing season one of each of the two competing 1966 network space entries. On Star Trek she played a conflicted, scantily-dressed android. On Lost in Space she appeared as a wacky if enchanting traveling space hayseed.
- In Senza sosta (1968), she is slapped eight times by Diane McBain.
- Never been Married.
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