14 Facts About Jill Adams

Jill Adams was an English actress, artist and fashion model.

Jill Adams featured or starred in over 25 films during the 1950s and 1960s.

Jill Adams was born Jill Siggins in London in 1930, the daughter of the silent-screen actress Molly Adair.

When she was six years old, Jill Adams moved to Wales where she continued her education, after which she worked for four years on a farm.

Jill Adams's ambition was to become an artist, and she moved to London to pursue that career, taking work as a sales assistant, secretary, and window dresser.

One day a model failed to arrive, and Jill Adams, found to be the perfect size, stepped in, thus beginning her modelling career, which included a flag-hoisting recruitment poster for the Women's Royal Naval Service.

Jill Adams appeared in episodes of the television series The Vise and Aggie.

Jill Adams had one of her first substantial roles in the sprightly "Quota quickie" movie One Jump Ahead, in a rare villainous portrayal as a murderess who was once an old flame of a reporter who is usually "one jump ahead" of the police.

Jill Adams was one of Rex Harrison's seven wives in the sophisticated comedy The Constant Husband.

Jill Adams had the leading role in a low budget crime film One Way Out and a TV series Wideawake.

Jill Adams had roles in episodes of My Pal Bob and Educated Evans.

Jill Adams appeared with Richard Attenborough in The Scamp, and was given star billing in an Australian movie, Dust in the Sun, but it had limited distribution.

At the peak of her acting career in 1957, Jill Adams married the well-known BBC TV and radio personality Peter Haigh, and had a second daughter, Peta Louise.

Jill Adams had cancer from 2005 until her death in 2008.