Jill St. John
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Jill St. John (born August 19, 1940) is an American film and television actress.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Career
St. John played her major film roles during the 1960s and early 1970s, including Barbara Tuttle in Jerry Lewis's Who's Minding the Store? and a turn as Bond Girl Tiffany Case opposite Sean Connery in the 1971 James Bond film, Diamonds Are Forever. In the 1980s, she starred with Dennis Weaver on the short-lived soap opera, Emerald Point N.A.S. She played Deanna Kinkaid, Thomas Mallory's conniving former sister in law.
St. John continues to act. She portrayed Mary Oakley in "The Trip" in 2002. Her roles in the 1990s and 2000s have primarily been for television sitcoms and made-for-TV movies. In 1997, St. John had a guest appearance on the Seinfeld episode "The Yada Yada."
[edit] Personal life
St. John was born Jill Arlyn Oppenheim in Los Angeles, California, daughter of Betty Lou Oppenheim.[1] She is known for her very high I.Q. of 162 and for being admitted to the University of California, Los Angeles at the age of 14.
St. John has been married a total of four times:
- Robert Wagner - (May 26, 1990 - present)
- Jack Jones - (October 14, 1967 - 1969) (divorced)
- Lance Reventlow - (March 24, 1960 - October 30, 1963) (divorced)
- Neil Durbin - (May 23, 1957 - June 3, 1958) (divorced)
She has also dated Henry Kissinger, Frank Sinatra, and Sean Connery. Jill and Nancy Sinatra, Frank's daughter, were high school classmates.
