- Born
- Birth nameJennifer Irwin Billingsley
- Height1.65 m
- Pretty, appealing and energetic blonde actress Jennifer Billingsley was born in Honolulu in 1940. An army brat who grew up all over the world, she graduated with honors from Fort Smith (Arkansas) Senior High School in 1958. Her initial claim to fame was her striking resemblance to Brigitte Bardot. She garnered plenty of favorable critical notices for her lively performance in the hit Broadway musical, "Carnival". She made her film debut as James Caan's wild teenage moll girlfriend in the harrowing thriller, Une femme dans une cage (1964). Billingsley had a recurring part on the popular daytime soap opera, Hôpital central (1963).
She then appeared in a handful of hugely entertaining low-budget drive-in features throughout the 1970s: a scruffy motorcycle mama in the biker romp, C.C. & Company (1970); a sexy hippie hitchhiker in the sleazy Le sexe sauvage (1971); a brash young lass in the Vietnam vets exploitation flick, Welcome Home Soldier Boys (1971); a sassy Southerner in the immensely enjoyable Burt Reynolds vehicle, Les bootleggers (1973); an American tourist who runs afoul of an evil cult in the Filipino horror dud, The Thirsty Dead (1974); and another more bitter motorcycle mama in the fine Hollywood Man (1976). On television, she had guest spots on are Naked City (1958), Gunsmoke (1955), Route 66 (1960), Le Jeune Docteur Kildare (1961), La grande caravane (1957), Des agents très spéciaux (1964), Mannix (1967), Hawaii police d'état (1968), Police Story (1973), Alice (1976), Baretta (1975) and L'homme-araignée (1977).- IMDb mini biography by: woodyanders
- SpouseStephen N. Gerlach (aka Jesse Kincaid)(1966 - 1971) (divorced)
- ParentsClaude Billingsley
- An army brat who grew up around the world, Billingsley graduated with honors from Fort Smith Senior High School in Fort Smith, Arkansas in 1958.
- In 1961, newspapers had her romantically linked with both John Strasberg of the Strasberg Actors Studio dynasty, French director Henri-Georges Clouzot, and French actor Pierre Olaf, with whom she starred in the original Broadway cast of the musical Carnival that had opened that year.
- In March 1962, newspapers announced she was going to marry actor Andrew Prine and that she had been replaced in her long-running role in Carnival. However, that May, it was reported that in March, Prine had married actress Sharon Farrell.
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