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Jill Esmond Moore (26 January 1908 – 28 July 1990) was an English stage and screen actress. Early life. Esmond was born in London, the daughter of stage actors Henry V. Esmond and Eva Moore. [1] . Dramatist W.S. Gilbert and actress Maxine Elliott were her godparents. [2] . One of her maternal aunts was Decima Moore. [citation needed]
Jill Esmond (1908-1990) was a British actress who appeared in 29 films and two TV shows. She was married to actor Laurence Olivier from 1930 to 1940 and had one son, Tarquin Olivier.
Aug 1, 1990 · Jill Esmond, the comely film and stage actress of the 1930s and '40s whose divorce from Sir Laurence Olivier made possible his marriage to Vivien Leigh, has died.
Jill Esmond was a British actress who married Laurence Olivier in 1930 and divorced him in 1940. She appeared in several films, including The Skin Game (1931) and Random Harvest (1942), and had a son, Tarquin Olivier.
When Olivier and Jill Esmond met, he was a struggling actor and she the successful actress daughter of what was then Britain’s leading theatrical family. Her father, Henry Esmond, wrote 28 plays and was an actor-manager of great note. Her mother, Eva Moore, was a star and an influential hostess.
…married three times, to actresses Jill Esmond, Vivien Leigh, and Joan Plowright. Knighted in 1947, he became the first actor to receive a peerage in 1970, allowing him to sit in the House of Lords.
Jul 20, 1990 · Jill Esmond was an English actress and the first wife of Sir Laurence Olivier. She appeared in several films, including The Skin Game, Thirteen Women and Random Harvest, and two Broadway plays with Olivier.
