Jill Bennett

Jill Bennett (December 24, 1931 – October 4, 1990) was a British actress best known as the wife of playwright John Osborne.

She was born in Penang to British parents, and trained at RADA. She made her film début in Moulin Rouge (1952) and her stage début at around the same time. Bennett made many appearances in British films during the 1950s and 1960s, notably The Nanny (1965) (opposite Bette Davis) and as Calpurnia to John Gielgud's Caesar in a 1970 version of Julius Caesar.

She was married to screenwriter Willis Hall and later to Osborne (who had been married three times before). Their divorce in 1990 resulted in vitriolic public exchanges, and Osborne was widely criticised for his apparent lack of sympathy towards a dying woman.