Gillian Hills

Gillian Hills (born June 5, 1944 in Cairo , Egypt ) is a British actress , singer and illustrator .

Life

Hills was born the daughter of the British author Denis Hills and the maternal granddaughter of the poet Bolesław Leśmian , and spent her childhood in France. At the age of 14, she was discovered there by Roger Vadim , who cast her in a supporting role in his literary film adaptation of Dangerous Liaisons in 1959 . The following year, she had a bigger role in Edmond T. Greville drama hot on bare stones alongside Christopher Lee . In 1964 she also played in the German-French-Spanish coproduction Die goldene Göttin vom Rio Beni alongside Pierre Brice , René Deltgen and Harald Juhnke . In addition to acting, she also pursued a singing career; between 1960 and 1965 released over a dozen singles and EPs on Barclay Records . Hills was one of the first female singers who did not interpret traditional French chansons , but instead orientated themselves on American pop .

She left France in the mid-1960s and moved to England, where she could give her acting career a new impetus. For this she gave up her singing career. In 1966 she starred alongside Vanessa Redgrave , Sarah Miles and David Hemmings in Michelangelo Antonioni's cult film Blow Up . She also played in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange , albeit in a subordinate role. Her other films include the hammer horror film Demons of the Soul and the Spaghetti Western Fists Like Dynamite . In the mid-1970s she withdrew from the film business and moved to New York City , where she worked as an illustrator for a decade, designing the book covers for Peter Benchley's The Reef and VC Andrews ' Flowers of the Night , among other things .

She is married to the artist manager Stewart Young, who represented Foreigner , Zucchero and the Scorpions , among others .

personal data
SURNAME	Hills, Gillian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British actress, singer and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH	June 5, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cairo , Egypt