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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 (play)|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.