Biographies: Jill Adams - Actor

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Jill Adams was a British actress, born in London, England, United Kingdom on July 22, 1930, as Jillian Mary Marguerite Siggins and died in Clarens, Portugal on May 13, 2008, of cancer. Jill Adams was married twice and had two daughters. Her notable works include Carry on Constable (1960), The Green Man (1956), One Way Out (1955), and One Jump Ahead (1955). Adams was an English actress, visual artist, and fashion model who rose to prominence during the 1950s and 1960s. Born the only child of four children to New Zealand-born former police officer Arthur Siggins and her Irish/American mother, silent film actress Molly Adair, her parents met in Tanganyika (now Tanzania) when her mother was acting in a film and her father was a policeman writing about wildlife. Jill was educated at home by a governess until the age of nine, then went to Sherfield School in Hampshire, then moved to London and worked as a sales assistant and secretary, and as a dressmaker, as she was good at drawing, then worked as a model, which led to her discovery as an actress, in a career that spanned two decades, and her most prominent comedies were Doctor at Sea and Brother in Law, and she also did some theatre and radio work, and in the early seventies, she moved with her husband Peter and her two daughters to southern Portugal, where they ran a small hotel for several years, and after her separation from her husband, she worked for a long time in the restaurant, and in 1996, she moved to live with her family and began painting again until she died in 2008 at the age of 78.

• 22 September 2021
• Toqa Hesham