Jill Gascoine

Jill Gascoine was born on Apr 11, 1937 in UK. Jill Gascoine's big-screen debut came with Oranges and Lemons - Season 1 directed by Cyril Coke in 1973. Jill Gascoine is known for Rooms directed by John Russell, Anne Dyson stars as Mrs. Beale and Ian Redford as Ian West. The upcoming new movie Jill Gascoine plays is Love Lessons which will be released on Nov 22, 2000.

Jill Viola Gascoine was born in Lambeth, London, on April 11 1937. She was educated at Tiffin's Girls School (by her own account, a traumatic experience) and later studied at the Italia Conti Academy of Performing Arts in London. She began her career as a fifteen-year old chorine in pantomime and spent a decade-long apprenticeship singing and dancing in revues and musicals. Married at 28, her first husband was a compulsive gambler who also resented her ambition of becoming an actress and abandoned her and her two children some time during the late 60s. Having to support her family on a single income, Gascoine found work in Glasgow cabaret as a singer and dancer. She was eventually able to get into acting with a repertory company in Dundee and from there (with the aid of theatrical agent