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Born: 17th December (as Grace Jacqueline Hill)
Died: 18th February (aged 63 years)
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Born and raised in Birmingham, Jacqueline Hill lost her parents when she was very young, and she was raised by her grandparents. At age fourteen, Hill left school to find work, and was soon employed as a clerk at a Cadbury's chocolate factory. There she became involved in the company's amateur dramatics society; discovering a passion for acting, she successfully applied for a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. After graduating from RADA, Hill began to secure jobs in the theatre and as a model, but her career was given a significant boost in when she was profiled on the BBC talent show Shop Window. More substantial theatrical roles followed, as well as her film debut -- second-billed on the crime drama The Blue Parrot -- although she would make only one further movie in her career.
The same year, Hill met Alvin Rakoff, a Canadian who had become the BBC's youngest producer/director. Rakoff was soon regularly casting Hill in lead roles, while their off-screen relationship culminated in a wedding. It was Hill who encouraged Rakoff to cast an unknown actor named Sean Connery in a edition of BBC Sunday Night Theatre; five years la
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Jodie Comer
English actress (born )
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| Born | () 11 March (age&#;31) Liverpool, England |
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Jodie Marie Comer (KOH-mər; born 11 March ) is an English actress of screen and stage. She began her career in an episode of The Royal Today in Comer gained recognition for appearing in the series My Mad Fat Diary (–) and Doctor Foster (–), and starred in the drama miniseries Thirteen (). From to , Comer played sociopathic assassin Villanelle in the BBC America spy thriller television series Killing Eve, winning a BAFTA Television Award and a Primetime Emmy Award. For playing Sarah, a healthcare assistant, in the television film Help (), she won another BAFTA Television Award.
Comer expanded to films in with main roles in the action comedy film Free Guy and historical drama The Last Duel. In , she made her West End theatre debut in Suzie Miller's one-woman play Prima Facie, which earned her an Evening Standard Theatre Award and a Laurence Olivier Award. Following its transfer to Broadway in , she won a Tony Award.
Early life
[edit]Jodie Comer was born in Liverpool on 11 March , the daughter of Merseyrail employee Donna and Everton FC physiotherap