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	\| birth_name = Jillian Mary Marguerite Siggins		\| birth_name = Jillian Mary Marguerite Siggins
	\| birth_date = {{Birth date~~\|df=y~~\|1930\|7\|22 }}		\| birth_date = {{Birth date\|1930\|07\|22\|df=y}}
	\| birth_place = [[~~w:Kent\|~~Kent]], England		\| birth_place = [[Kent]], England
	\| death_date = {{Death date and age~~\|df=y~~\|2008\|5\|13\|1930\|7\|22}}		\| death_date = {{Death date and age\|2008\|05\|13\|1930\|07\|22\|df=y}}
	\| death_place = Clareance, Portugal<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/jill-adams-actress-billed-as-britains-monroe-886120.html\|title=Jill Adams: Actress billed as 'Britain's Monroe'\|date=6 August 2008\|website=The Independent}}</ref>		\| death_place = Clareance, Portugal<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/jill-adams-actress-billed-as-britains-monroe-886120.html\|title=Jill Adams: Actress billed as 'Britain's Monroe'\|date=6 August 2008\|website=The Independent}}</ref>
	\| othername = Elizabeth Gillian		\| othername = Elizabeth Gillian
	\| occupation = Model, actress, restaurateur		\| occupation = Model, actress, restaurateur
	\| yearsactive = 1954–1965		\| yearsactive = 1954–1965
	\| parents = [[w:Molly Adair\|Molly Adair]]<br />Arthur James Siggins		\| parents = [[Molly Adair\|Molly Adair]]<br />Arthur James Siggins
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	* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100523223043/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4425231.ece Obituary in ''The Times'']		* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100523223043/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4425231.ece Obituary in ''The Times'']
	* [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/jill-adams-actress-billed-as-britains-monroe-886120.html Obituary in ''The Independent'']		* [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/jill-adams-actress-billed-as-britains-monroe-886120.html Obituary in ''The Independent'']

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	\| birth_name = Jillian Mary Marguerite Siggins		\| birth_name = Jillian Mary Marguerite Siggins
	\| birth_date = {{Birth date\|df=y\|1930\|7\|22 }}		\| birth_date = {{Birth date\|df=y\|1930\|7\|22 }}
	\| birth_place = [[Kent]], England		\| birth_place = [[w:Kent\|Kent]], England
	\| death_date = {{Death date and age\|df=y\|2008\|5\|13\|1930\|7\|22}}		\| death_date = {{Death date and age\|df=y\|2008\|5\|13\|1930\|7\|22}}
	\| death_place = Clareance, Portugal<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/jill-adams-actress-billed-as-britains-monroe-886120.html\|title=Jill Adams: Actress billed as 'Britain's Monroe'\|date=6 August 2008\|website=The Independent}}</ref>		\| death_place = Clareance, Portugal<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/jill-adams-actress-billed-as-britains-monroe-886120.html\|title=Jill Adams: Actress billed as 'Britain's Monroe'\|date=6 August 2008\|website=The Independent}}</ref>
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	\| occupation = Model, actress, restaurateur		\| occupation = Model, actress, restaurateur
	\| yearsactive = 1954–1965		\| yearsactive = 1954–1965
	\| parents = [[Molly Adair]]<br />Arthur James Siggins		\| parents = [[w:Molly Adair\|Molly Adair]]<br />Arthur James Siggins
	\| spouse = Jim Adams ~~(m. 1951–53)<br />~~[[Peter Haigh]] (m. ~~1957–76)~~		\| spouse =
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| birth_name = Jillian Mary Marguerite Siggins
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| birth_place = [[Kent]], England
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| othername = Elizabeth Gillian
| occupation = Model, actress, restaurateur
| yearsactive = 1954–1965
| parents = [[Molly Adair]]<br />Arthur James Siggins
| spouse = Jim Adams (m. 1951–53)<br />[[Peter Haigh]] (m. 1957–76)
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'''Jill Adams''' (22 July 1930 – 13 May 2008) was an English actress, artist and fashion model. She featured or starred in over 25 films during the 1950s and 1960s.

== Life ==
Jill Adams was born '''Jill Siggins''' in London in 1930, the daughter of the silent-screen actress [[Molly Adair]] (real name Mary Marguerite Potter). Jill's New Zealand-born father, Arthur James Siggins, had met the Irish-American Adair when she was on location filming ''[[The Blue Lagoon (1923 film)|The Blue Lagoon]]'' (1923). Siggins, a former member of the [[British South Africa Police]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mohammadmossadegh.com/news/the-afro-american/arthur-james-siggins/|title = Arthur James Siggins on "white imperialism" | the Afro American (1951)}}</ref> and an expert animal handler, worked on the film ''[[The Four Feathers (1921 film)|The Four Feathers]]'' (1921), and later wrote a book about the experience, ''Shooting with Rifle and Camera''.<ref name="independent.co.uk">{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/jill-adams-actress-billed-as-britains-monroe-886120.html|title=Jill Adams: Actress billed as 'Britain's Monroe'|date=19 November 2019}}</ref>

Jill was one of four children. When she was six years old, Jill moved to Wales where she continued her education, after which she worked for four years on a farm. Her 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. After working as a window dresser, by 1944 Adams was an assistant artist at Mr & Mrs Jones, a department store, where she was required to attend fashion shows and sketch the clothes. One day a model failed to arrive, and 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]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/aug/11/1|title = Obituary: Jill Adams|date = 10 August 2008}}</ref> During her modelling days she was 'discovered' and began an acting career that spanned two decades.

Her most notable films were [[Comedy film|comedies]], at which she excelled, such as ''[[Doctor at Sea (film)|Doctor at Sea]]'' (1955), ''[[Brothers in Law (film)|Brothers in Law]]'' (1957) and ''[[The Green Man (film)|The Green Man]]'' (1956), in which she starred with [[Alastair Sim]] and [[George Cole (actor)|George Cole]].<ref name="theguardian">{{Cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/aug/11/1 |title = Obituary: Jill Adams|newspaper = The Guardian|date = 10 August 2008|last1 = Gaughan|first1 = Gavin}}</ref> She also did some stage and radio work.

In 1951 she married a young American navy [[Yeoman (United States Navy)|yeoman]], Jim Adams, whose surname she adopted professionally, which resulted in the birth of a daughter, Tina. The same year, Jill Adams had a part in a late-night stage revue, ''On with the New'', starring Anthony Newley, and though her marriage ended in 1953, she began taking bit roles in movies – dancing with [[Nigel Patrick]] in ''[[Forbidden Cargo (1954 film)|Forbidden Cargo]]'', appearing in the [[Arthur Askey]] comedy ''[[The Love Match]]'' (1954), and in ''[[Doctor at Sea (film)|Doctor at Sea]]'' (1955) with [[Dirk Bogarde]].

She had one of her first substantial roles in the sprightly "[[Quota quickie]]" movie ''[[One Jump Ahead (film)|One Jump Ahead]]'' (1955), in a rare villainous portrayal as a murderess who was once an old flame of a reporter ([[Paul Carpenter (actor)|Paul Carpenter]]) who is usually "one jump ahead" of the police. Adams was one of [[Rex Harrison]]'s seven wives in the sophisticated comedy ''[[The Constant Husband]]'' (1955).

At the peak of her acting career in 1957, Adams married the well-known [[BBC]] [[TV personality|TV]] and radio personality [[Peter Haigh]], and had a second daughter, Peta Louise. Adams appeared with Richard Attenborough in ''[[The Scamp]]'' (1957), and was given star billing in an Australian movie,'' [[Dust in the Sun]]'' (1958), but it had limited distribution. In 1960/61 she featured in a television series, ''[[The Flying Doctor (TV series)|The Flying Doctor]]'', based on the real-life activities of the [[Royal Flying Doctor Service]] serving the Australian outback.<ref name="independent.co.uk"/>

Her career at this point seemed to lose direction. ''[[Death Over My Shoulder]]'' (1958) and ''[[Crosstrap]]'' (1960) had been poor "B" movies, and her roles in ''[[Carry On Constable]]'' (1960) and ''[[Doctor in Distress (film)|Doctor in Distress]]'' (1963) were small. ''[[The Yellow Teddy Bears]]'' (1963) was an exploitation thriller (its US title was ''Gutter Girls''), and her small role in ''[[Promise Her Anything]]'' (1965), starring [[Warren Beatty]] and [[Leslie Caron]], was to be her last. In 1971, the whole family moved to the [[Algarve]],<ref name="theguardian" /> in southern [[Portugal]], where they ran a small hotel for several years in the village of [[Albufeira]].

When her second marriage ended, she continued with a [[Restaurateur|restaurant career]], accompanied by her partner Mike. Some years later she retired from the business and with her new partner, Alan "Buster" Jones, an accountant, went to live just outside [[Lisbon]]. They later moved to Spain, where they enjoyed homes close to [[Alicante]], then [[Barcelona]] and eventually in the [[Costa del Sol]].

After Buster died in 1996, she moved back to Portugal, to be with her granddaughter, Emma, and her great-granddaughter, Tania, and began painting again. She had [[Cancer (disease)|cancer]] from 2005 until her death in 2008.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Gaughan|first=Gavin|date=11 August 2008|title=Actor in Boulting Brothers films, she was likened to Monroe|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/aug/11/1|url-status=live|access-date=29 March 2021|website=The Guardian}}</ref>

== Filmography ==

=== Film ===
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* ''[[Forbidden Cargo (1954 film)|Forbidden Cargo]]'' (1954) as Michael's Dance Partner (uncredited)
* ''[[The Young Lovers (1954 film)|The Young Lovers]]'' (1954) as Judy (uncredited)
* ''[[The Black Knight (film)|The Black Knight]]'' (1954) as Extra (uncredited)
* ''[[The Love Match]]'' (1955) as Clarrie (uncredited)
* ''[[Out of the Clouds]]'' (1955) as Bit Part (uncredited)
* ''[[One Jump Ahead (film)|One Jump Ahead]]'' (1955) as Judy
* ''[[The Constant Husband]]'' (1955) as Joanna
* ''[[Doctor at Sea (film)|Doctor at Sea]]'' (1955) as Jill
* ''[[Value for Money]]'' (1955) as Joy
* ''[[One Way Out (film)|One Way Out]]'' (1955) as Shirley Harcourt
* ''[[Count of Twelve]]'' (1955)
* ''[[Private's Progress]]'' (1956) as Prudence Greenslade
* ''[[The Green Man (film)|The Green Man]]'' (1956) as Ann Vincent
* ''[[Brothers in Law (film)|Brothers in Law]]'' (1957) as Sally Smith
* ''[[The Scamp]]'' (1957) as Julie Cunningham
* ''[[Death Over My Shoulder]]'' (1958) as Evelyn Connors
* ''[[Dust in the Sun]]'' (1958) as Julie Kirkbridge
* ''[[Carry On Constable]]'' (1960) as WPC Harrison
* ''[[Crosstrap]]'' (1962) as Sally
* ''[[The Yellow Teddy Bears]]'' (1963) as June Wilson
* ''[[Doctor in Distress (film)|Doctor in Distress]]'' (1963) as Genevieve
* ''[[The Comedy Man]]'' (1964) as Jan Kennedy (uncredited)
* ''[[Promise Her Anything]]'' (1965) as Mrs. B.M. von Crispin (final film role)
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=== Television ===
* ''[[The Vise]]'' (1955) as Wendy Graves
* ''[[The Adventures of Aggie]]'' (1956) as Pam
* ''[[Educated Evans (TV series)|Educated Evans]]'' as Gloria
* ''[[My Pal Bob]]'' (1958) as Jill
* ''[[The Flying Doctor (TV series)|The Flying Doctor]]'' (1959) as Mary Meredith
* ''[[No Hiding Place]]'' (1963) as Peggy Dawson

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100523223043/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4425231.ece Obituary in ''The Times'']
* [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/jill-adams-actress-billed-as-britains-monroe-886120.html Obituary in ''The Independent'']

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