Jill Esmond was born on January 26, 1908 in London, England, UK. She
was 23-years-old when she first came to prominence when she first
appeared in Bis aufs Messer (1931) in
1931. Once Jill got in the groove, she kept up a steady pace. Three
more films followed in 1931 and five more came her way the following
year. One of the films of note was
State's Attorney (1932), where
Jill played "Lillian Ulrich". She had married
Laurence Olivier in 1930 and that might
have explained her absence from the silver screen between 1934 and
1941, due to her marital obligations. After her divorce from Olivier in
1940, Jill returned to filming with
Gefundene Jahre (1942) in 1942.
Five films followed that year, but it wasn't quite the same as the
schedule she kept in the early 30s. Jill's final film came in 1955 in
Ein Mann namens Peter (1955). She
was 82-years-old when she died on July 28, 1990 in London.
