Jill Angela Henriette Balcon was a British actress.
11 Facts About Jill Balcon
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Jill Balcon was known for her work in film, television, radio and on stage.
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Jill Balcon made her film debut in Nicholas Nickleby.
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Jill Balcon was the second wife of poet Cecil Day-Lewis; the couple had two children: Tamasin Day-Lewis became a food critic and TV chef and Daniel Day-Lewis is an actor.
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Jill Balcon's family was Jewish, with 19th-century Lithuanian Jewish immigrant ancestors from what is Latvia on her father's side and Poland on her mother's.
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Jill Balcon trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama and, over the course of her career, performed on stage and in radio, film, and television.
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That year Jill Balcon worked for a season with the Bristol Old Vic.
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Jill Balcon starred opposite Stewart Granger in the film Saraband for Dead Lovers, with Jean Kent in Good Time Girl, and The Lost People.
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Jill Balcon's father was deeply unhappy about the affair and Balcon being named publicly as co-respondent in Day-Lewis' divorce, and cut her off.
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Cecil Day-Lewis and Jill Balcon shared a great love for poetry and performed together in many public readings.
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Jill Balcon died of a brain tumour on 18 July 2009, aged 84.