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Jill Schlesinger
Jill is an English feminine given name, a short form of the name Jillian (Gillian), which in turn originates as a Middle English variant of Juliana, the feminine form of the name Julian. People with the given name * Jill Astbury, Australian researcher into violence against women *Jill Balcon (1925–2009), British actress * Jill S. Barnholtz-Sloan, American biostatistician and data scientist * Jill Becker, American psychological researcher * Jill Biden (born 1951), American educator and the First Lady of the United States * Jill E. Brown (born 1950), African American aviator * Jill Carroll (born 1977), American journalist * Jill Clayburgh (1944–2010), American actress * Jill Costello (1987–2010), American athlete and lung cancer activist * Jill Craigie (1911–1999), British film director and writer * Jill Craybas (born 1974), American tennis player * Jill Dando (1961–1999), British television presenter * Jill Dickman, Republican member of the Nevada Assembly * Jill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jillian
Jillian is both a feminine given name and a surname. A spelling variant of Gillian, it originates as a feminine form of the given name Julian, Julio, Julius, and Julien. Notable people with the name include: Given name * Jillian Armenante (born 1968), American television and film actress * Jillian Rose Banks (born 1988), American musical artist * Jillian Becker (born 1932), South African novelist * Jillian Bell (born 1984), American comedian, actress, and screenwriter * Jillian Camarena-Williams (born 1982), American shot putter * Jillian D'Alessio (born 1985), Canadian kayaker * Jillian Mai Thi Epperly (born c. 1973/4), creator of Jilly Juice * Jillian Evans (born 1959), Welsh politician * Jillian Grace (born 1985), American model * Jillian Hall (born 1980), American professional wrestler * Jillian Hunter, American author * Jillian Keiley, Canadian director * Jillian Kesner-Graver (1950–2007), American actress and historian * Jillian Kraus (born 1986), American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jill Dickman
Jill Dickman is an American businesswoman and politician. She serves as a Republican member of the Nevada Assembly and represented Assembly District 31. Early life Jill Dickman was born in Hancock, Michigan. Jill's grandparents emigrated from Russia, shortly after the Bolshevik revolution. The decided to move to America as they saw it as an opportunity to live a better life. They quickly became citizens, learned the language, and fell in love with their new home. Jill was born in upper Michigan to a family of Entrepreneurs. As she grew up she started working in the family business, of a clothing store. She quickly be the manager and later the owner of the company. She was educated at the L'Anse High School in L'Anse, Michigan and attended the Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Michigan. Career Dickman is a small business owner. She served as a Republican member of the Nevada Assembly The Nevada Assembly is the lower house of the Nevada Legislature, the state legi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jill Knight
Joan Christabel Jill Knight, Baroness Knight of Collingtree, (; 9 July 1923 – 6 April 2022) was a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, she served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Edgbaston from 1966 to 1997. She was created a life peer as "Baroness Knight of Collingtree, of Collingtree in the County of Northamptonshire" in 1997 after she had stood down at that year's general election, and retired from the House of Lords on 24 March 2016. Early life Joan Christabel Jill Christie was born in Bristol on 9 July 1923, although she later shaved several years off her age: when seeking election, she put her year of birth as 1930. Her parents divorced when she was a child. Her mother was a teacher and a graduate of Bristol University. Christie attended Fairfield Secondary and Higher Grade School in Bristol and the King Edward Grammar School for Girls, Birmingham. In 1941, she joined the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF). Her unit served in Amiens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jill Johnson
Jill Anna Maria Johnson (born 24 May 1973) is a Swedish country and pop singer, songwriter and TV-host. She performed in the Melodifestivalen 1998 contest, winning with the song " Kärleken är" ("Love Is"), and represented Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest 1998 with that song, which finished 10th with 53 points. In 2003 she entered Melodifestivalen for the second time with "Crazy in Love", which finished fourth in the final. She also hosted the final of Melodifestivalen 2005. Johnson is today one of the most successful artists in Sweden, with several Gold and Platinum records and since 2014 even hosted her own Swedish TV-show from Nashville, '' Jills veranda''. Biography Johnson is from the small town of Ängelholm in the south western part of Sweden, but the surroundings and the media compare her with the biggest stars in the music business. By the age of four, she had decided that she wanted to become an artist, an aspiration towards which she was highly encouraged b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jill Ireland
Jill Dorothy Ireland (24 April 1936 – 18 May 1990) was an English actress and singer. She appeared in 16 films with her second husband, Charles Bronson, and was additionally involved in two other of Bronson's films as a producer. Life and career Born in London, Ireland was the daughter of a wine importer. She began acting in the mid-1950s with small roles in films including '' Simon and Laura'' (1955) and ''Three Men in a Boat'' (1956). In 1957, Ireland married actor David McCallum after the couple met while working on the film '' Hell Drivers'' (1957). Later, they appeared together in five episodes of ''The Man from U.N.C.L.E.'': "The Quadripartite Affair" (season 1, episode 3, 1964), "The Giuoco Piano Affair" (season 1, episode 7, 1964), "The Tigers Are Coming Affair" (season 2, episode 8, 1965), and a two-parter " The Five Daughters Affair" (season 3, episodes 28 & 29, 1967). They had three sons, Paul, Valentine, and Jason (who was adopted). McCallum and Ireland divorced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jill Hennessy
Jillian Noel Hennessy (born November 25, 1968) is a Canadian actress and singer. She is most known for her roles on the American television series '' Law & Order'', on which she played prosecutor Claire Kincaid for three seasons, and ''Crossing Jordan'', on which she played the lead character, Jordan Cavanaugh, for six seasons. She has also acted in films such as ''RoboCop 3'' and ''Most Wanted'', and the independent films '' Chutney Popcorn'' and '' The Acting Class'', the latter of which she also wrote and co-directed. Early life Hennessy was born in Edmonton, Alberta. Her father, John Hennessy, was a meat salesman and sales/marketing executive, a job that required considerable travel and resulted in frequent moves for the family. Her mother, Maxine, a secretary, left the family in 1982, leaving her daughter to be partially raised by her paternal grandmother, Eleanor, in Kitchener, Ontario. She has a younger brother, John Paul "J.P." Hennessy, Jr., and an identical twin sis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jill Harris
Jill Harris is an American voice actress. She has been voice acting professionally since 2015 and received her first lead role with Naho Takamiya in '' Orange''. Some of her other lead roles include Aura Bella Flora in ''Overlord'', Fuuka Akitsuki in '' Fuuka'', Charlie Morningstar in '' Hazbin Hotel'', and Noelle Silva in ''Black Clover is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yūki Tabata. It has been serialized in Shueisha's ''shōnen'' manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' since February 2015, with its chapters collected in 33 ''tankōbon'' volumes a ...''. Filmography Anime Films Video games Animation References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Harris, Jill Living people Actresses from Tennessee American stage actresses American video game actresses American voice actresses People from Clarksville, Tennessee Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American actresses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jill Goodacre
Jill Goodacre Connick (born March 29, 1964) is an American actress and former model. She was one of Victoria's Secret's main models in the 1980s and early 1990s. She is married to singer Harry Connick Jr. Career Victoria's Secret Goodacre was a primary lingerie and hosiery model for the relatively new Victoria's Secret company in its mail-order catalogs and retail stores in the 1980s, and she appeared extensively in the catalogs. Goodacre, Stephanie Seymour and Dutch model Frederique helped Victoria's Secret grow from a new company to one of the world's giants in women's lingerie, hosiery, swimwear and clothing. Other media Goodacre appeared as herself in an episode (" The One with the Blackout") of the American sitcom ''Friends'' in 1994. Though billed as Jill Connick, she was called Jill Goodacre throughout the episode. She directed one of her husband's live performance videos (''The New York Big Band Concert'') in 1992, and she appears in several of his music videos. Person ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jill Green
Jill Green is an American dance educator and scholar who originated the Social Somatic Theory. Green served on the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and was co-editor of ''Dance Research''. Biography Green received a Master of Arts degree in dance and dance education from New York University in 1981. After graduating from New York University she taught in New York City public schools. She received a doctorate in Somatics and Movement Arts from Ohio State University in 1993. Later that year, she joined the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro where she worked as a professor of dance and as the director of graduate studies for the UNCG School of Dance. She was a 2003 Fulbright Scholar and conducted research at the Theatre Academy of Finland. Green's academic research focused on somatics, kinaesthetics, proprioception and the socio-political and gender issues related to the body in dance and dance education. Green is the originator o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jill Gibbon
Jill Gibbon is a British artist, best known for sketching people in the arms trade while working undercover at arms fairs. She is a senior lecturer in graphic arts at Leeds Beckett University. Gibbon earned a bachelor's degree from Leeds Polytechnic (now Leeds Beckett University), a master's from Keele University, and a PhD from Wimbledon School of Art. Gibbon visits arms fairs posing as a global security expert, and sketches people active in the arms trade. In 2018 Gibbon helped to lead a high profile campaign that successfully pressured arms manufacturer BAE Systems to withdraw its sponsorship of the Great Exhibition of the North. Gibbon is Reader in Graphic Arts, School of Arts at Leeds Beckett University Leeds Beckett University (LBU), formerly known as Leeds Metropolitan University (LMU) and before that as Leeds Polytechnic, is a public university in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It has campuses in the city centre and Headingley. The univ .... Publications *' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jill Gascoine
Jill Viola Gascoine (11 April 1937 – 28 April 2020) was an English actress and novelist. She portrayed Detective Inspector Maggie Forbes in the 1980s television series '' The Gentle Touch'' and its spin-off series '' C.A.T.S. Eyes''. In the 1990s, she also became a novelist and published three books. Early life Gascoine was born in Lambeth, the daughter of Francis Gascoine, a Quantity Surveyor, and his wife Irene, née Greenwood. She was sent to a boarding school, which she hated, later explaining that she was ridiculed by schoolteachers. After leaving school, in the 1950s, she went to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe to appear in a revue.Brian Pendreigh,"Obituary: Jill Gascoine, actress who played the first female police detective on British television" '' The Herald'', 1 May 2020 Career Early in her career in the 1950s, Gascoine was a soubrette in a Great Britain tour of the '' Crazy Gang Show''. In 1956, she was a chorus dancer in the Christmas season of ''The Adventures o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jill Frappier
Jill Frappier (born October 7, 1944) is a British-Canadian voice actress. Frappier was born in Lord Louis Mountbatten's stately home, Broadlands, in Romsey, England. She moved to Canada in 1967 to work as a British hostess at the British pavilion during the 1967 International and Universal Exposition, where she met her first husband, Roger Frappier, who was pursuing a career in directing. She was formerly known for voicing Luna in the DiC/Cloverway/Optimum Productions dubs of '' Sailor Moon'', the title character in ''Keroppi and Friends'', Mrs. Prysselius in ''Pippi Longstocking'', Aunty in ''Pecola'', Miss Finch in '' Birdz'', Doucette in '' Anatole,'' and Fifi in '' Hello Kitty and Friends''. She has appeared on camera in television and movies such as ''Wind at My Back'', '' Friday the 13th: The Series'', ''The Dating Guy'', ''Night Heat'', ''TekWar'', ''Spearfield's Daughter'', ''The Twilight Zone'', '' The Hitchhiker'', '' Beyond Reality,'' and ''The Jon Dore Show''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
