Actor
Jill Esmond
January 26, 1908 · London, England, UK
Jill Esmond (26 January 1908 – 28 July 1990) was an English actress and first wife of Sir Laurence Olivier.
In 1928 Esmond (billed as Jill Esmond Moore) appeared in the production of Bird in the Hand, where she met fellow cast member Laurence Olivier for the first time. Three weeks later, he proposed to her. In his autobiography Olivier later wrote that he was smitten with Esmond, and that her cool indifference to him did nothing but further his ardour. When Bird in the Hand was being staged on Broadway, Esmond was chosen to join the American production – but Olivier was not.
Often works with
Doris Lloyd
3 titles together
Journey for Margaret, A Man Called Peter, Once a Lady
Bramwell Fletcher
2 titles together
Random Harvest, Once a Lady
Una O'Connor
2 titles together
Random Harvest, My Pal, Wolf
Melville Cooper
2 titles together
Random Harvest, This Above All
Norma Varden
2 titles together
Random Harvest, The White Cliffs of Dover
John Longden
2 titles together
The Skin Game, The Adventures of Robin Hood
Full filmography · 25
A Man Called Peter
as Mrs. Findlay
1955
Night People
as Frau Schindler / Rachel Cameron
19546.2
Private Information
as Mrs. Charlotte Carson
1952
Escape
as Grace Winton
1948
Bedelia
as Nurse Harris
1946
The Bandit of Sherwood Forest
as The Queen Mother
1946
My Pal, Wolf
as Elizabeth Munn
1944
Casanova Brown
as Dr. Zernerke
19446.4
The White Cliffs of Dover
as Rosamund
19446.7
Random Harvest
as Lydia
19427.3
Journey for Margaret
as Susan Fleming
19426.7
The Pied Piper
as Mrs. Cavanaugh
1942