In “Jacqueline and Jilly,” Daphne Maxwell Reid plays the mother of Jacqueline and grandmother of Jilly in this three-generation drama about a privileged African-American family whose veneer of calm and cool explodes when it discovers that Jilly has an opiod addiction. The six-part mini-series is currently playing out on the Urban Movie Channel. It was written by and stars former “The Young and the Restless” soap opera star Victoria Rowell as Jacqueline and introduces a fresh face, Nikko Austen Smith as her troubled daughter, Jilly. DAPHNE MAXWELL REID podcast excerpt: "Tim and I have a basis of great love, respect and compromise. The things he is strong in, I'm weak in; the things he is weak in, I'm strong in." In Daphne Maxwell Reid, “Jacqueline and Jilly” has a veteran actress who has been a steady fixture on network television beginning with a recurring run on “Hill Street Blues,” continuing with two seasons on “WKRP in Cincinnati” during which she met and married Venus Flytrap hims