1. Gillian Hills was born on 5 June 1944 and is a British actress and singer.
13 Facts About Gillian Hills
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Gillian Hills first came to notice as a teenager in the 1960s in the British films Beat Girl and Blowup.
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Gillian Hills spent a number of years living in France, where she embarked on a singing career as well as starring in a number of French films.
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Gillian Hills spent her early years in Nice, where she was discovered at 14 by Roger Vadim, the director of And God Created Woman and Barbarella, who saw her as the next Brigitte Bardot and cast her in a version of Les Liaisons dangereuses.
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At 15, Gillian Hills was cast in the lead for the British film Beat Girl, made in 1959 and released in 1960.
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Gillian Hills's co-star was a young Adam Faith in his first film role.
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Gillian Hills remained with the Barclay label until 1964, having released both cover versions and original self-penned recordings.
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In 2008, Gillian Hills' self-penned song "Qui a Su" was chosen for Jean-Francois Richet's film Mesrine Part One: Killer Instinct with Vincent Cassel.
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At the close of her recording career, Gillian Hills returned to England and film, appearing in Michelangelo Antonioni's first English language film Blowup, starring David Hemmings, with whom her character and that of Jane Birkin shared an energetic romp.
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Gillian Hills appears in writer James Salter's only film as a director, the mystery romance Three.
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Gillian Hills starred as Alison in The Owl Service, a television adaptation of the Alan Garner novel.
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Gillian Hills replaced Marianne Faithfull in the 1972 horror Demons of the Mind for Hammer Film Productions.
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Gillian Hills moved to New York to work as a book and magazine illustrator.