Growing up in rural Indiana, Jill didn't start acting until the age of 16. By 18, she had won a state speech title and attended Bradley University on a theatre scholarship. Jill first gained notoriety when she starred in the action flick _In Her Line of Fire and the popular Afterellen video blog, "We're Getting Nowhere", which lead to a television development deal with Logo. She created two other popular video blogs, and her current vlog, "The Gloves Are Off", is hosted at wehavetostopnow.tv. She was nominated in four categories and won two audience choice awards at Logo's New Now Next Awards, was voted Shewired's "Woman of the Year" and Autostraddle's "Celesbian of the Year". This year, three of her projects won Curve Magazine Awards and she, herself, was nominated in four separate categories.
Committed suicide from an overdose of pills in 1990, after suffering from acute depression abetted by her stormy marriage and subsequent divorce from the writer John Osborne. She was his fourth wife.
Schooled at Priors Field, an independent girls boarding school in Godalming.
Had a long-term relationship with the much older actor Sir Godfrey Tearle (1884-1953) in the late 1940s and early 1950s before marrying screenwriter Willis Hall. In her book, Godfrey: A Special Time Remembered she described their four years together as the happiest of her life.
Her many classical stage roles included Titania in "A Midsummer Nights Dream," Iras in both "Caesar and Cleopatra" and "Antony and Cleopatra," Gertrude in "Hamlet," Hedda in "Hedda Gabler," Masha in "The Seagull," and Queen Elizabeth I in "Mary Stuart".
She starred in several of husband John Osborne s plays, winning an Evening Standard award and a Variety Club of Britain Award for her performance in "Time Present".
Trained at the Amersham Repertory and Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (1944-1946) companies, she made her stage debut in 1949 at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford upon Avon.
Born in Penang, Federated Malay States, to British parents; her father was a rubber plantation owner.
Her marriage to John Osborne was a tempestuous one, and ended in considerable acrimony. Osborne let it be known that he had given her the nickname "Adolf", and continued to be vituperative about her long after her suicide - something which made him very unpopular. However, he was very friendly, right up to his own death, with her first husband, Willis Hall.
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