Jane Rossington (born 5 March 1943) is a British actress, best known
for her role as Jill Richardson in the soap opera Crossroads.Born in
Derby, Rossington's family moved to Sutton Coldfield when she was four
years of age. The daughter of a bank manager, she attended Sutton
Coldfield Grammar School and was an amateur actress, having trained in
the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama, before appearing in
repertory theatre in Sheffield and York. She was the only Crossroads
original cast member to be in the first and last episode of the
series. She was, however, no stranger to soap opera, having played the
part of probationary nurse Kate Ford in the ITV series Emergency Ward
10 during 1963â€"64.Rossington spoke the first words of the first
episode of Crossroads on 2 November 1964, "Crossroads Motel, good
evening". She played Jill Richardson, the daughter of the owner of the
Crossroads Motel, Meg Richardson. For the 24 years she appeared in the
show the writers delighted in making Jill suffer, and amongst other
things, she was married five times - once bigamously - was a drug
addict, an alcoholic and had a baby with her stepbrother. As well as
being the only actor to remain in the show for its entire series, she
also spoke the final words of the final episode in 1988.
for her role as Jill Richardson in the soap opera Crossroads.Born in
Derby, Rossington's family moved to Sutton Coldfield when she was four
years of age. The daughter of a bank manager, she attended Sutton
Coldfield Grammar School and was an amateur actress, having trained in
the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama, before appearing in
repertory theatre in Sheffield and York. She was the only Crossroads
original cast member to be in the first and last episode of the
series. She was, however, no stranger to soap opera, having played the
part of probationary nurse Kate Ford in the ITV series Emergency Ward
10 during 1963â€"64.Rossington spoke the first words of the first
episode of Crossroads on 2 November 1964, "Crossroads Motel, good
evening". She played Jill Richardson, the daughter of the owner of the
Crossroads Motel, Meg Richardson. For the 24 years she appeared in the
show the writers delighted in making Jill suffer, and amongst other
things, she was married five times - once bigamously - was a drug
addict, an alcoholic and had a baby with her stepbrother. As well as
being the only actor to remain in the show for its entire series, she
also spoke the final words of the final episode in 1988.
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