Jill Martin was an English actress and singer who made her career in West End theatre from the 1950 to the 2000s.
13 Facts About Jill Martin
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Jill Martin was the only actor to appear in all three runs of My Fair Lady and produced a studio cast recording in 1966.
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Jill Martin was born in Redruth, Cornwall, on 25 April 1938.
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Jill Martin was educated at The Lawn School at St Austell.
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Jill Martin debuted in the theatre in 1950 with the chorus of Love from Judy at the Golders Green Hippodrome.
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That year, Jill Martin was cast as second understudy to Julie Andrews who was playing Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, and later appeared in the role of Rosalia in the West End musical of West Side Story at Her Majesty's Theatre.
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Jill Martin won the part through being acquainted with the director William Chappell, and was escorted to the Theatre Girls' Club in Soho, where young actress were tended to and she took lessons in drawing, sewing, singing and gymnastics.
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Jill Martin remained in Soho and practised in the Theatre Girls' Club on an out-of-tune piano and a worn ballet barre.
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Jill Martin had a further role in Side by Side by Sondheim at the Garrick Theatre in 1978.
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Jill Martin was part in the original cast of Les Miserables at the Barbican Centre in 1985.
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Jill Martin appeared in Follies at the Shaftesbury Theatre two years later, as well as The Baker's Wife at the Phoenix Theatre in 1989.
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Jill Martin upheld many superstitions in the theatre world and insisted on receiving a bouquet of flowers before performances.
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Jill Martin was twice married: firstly to the theatre production manager Thomas Elliott with whom she had two children, and latterly to John Morgan.