Jill Ireland

Jill Dorothy Ireland (London, 24 april 1936 – Malibu, California, 18 may 1990) was an English actress who is best known for the many films in which she starred with her husband Charles Bronson.



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[hide] *1 acting career  ==Acting Career[ Edit] == Jill Ireland began acting in the mid-fifties, with small roles in films such as The Woman for Joe and ''[http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=nl&to=en&a=http%3A%2F%2Fnl.wikipedia.org%2Fw%2Findex.php%3Ftitle%3DOh..._Rosalinda%26action%3Dedit%26redlink%3D1 Oh ... Rosalinda]''. Ireland also played for television. She starred in TV series such as Star Trek, The Man from U.NC.L.E. and Mannix. On the silver screen, she played mainly in films with her husband Charles Bronson Death Wish II, such as, The Mechanic and Love and Bullets .
 * 2 private life
 * 3 Filmography
 * 4 Bibliography
 * 5 external links

For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Jill Ireland has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, located at the location 6751 Hollywood Blvd. ==Private Life[ Edit] == Ireland was born in London in 1936, the daughter of a wine importer[1]. Ireland is married twice. From 1957 to 1967, she was married to actor David McCallum[2]. They had three sons: Paul, Jason and Valentine. Their son Jason, who was adopted, died in 1989 at the age of 27 after a drug overdose, six months before the death of his mother. [3]  McCallum suggested Ireland to Charles Bronson when they both participated in the film The Great Escape in 1963. Her husband left Ireland In 1967 for Bronson, with whom she married in 1968. [4]  the couple had two daughters, Katrina and Zuleika. In 1984, when Ireland adopted breast cancer . Ireland underwent amastectomy and wrote about her battle with cancer in her book Life Wish. She was also spokeswoman for the American Cancer Society.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-YARR_5-0" len="169" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [5]  she testified In 1988 for a Committee of the US Congress about medical costs. President Ronald Reagan awarded her with the Medal of Courage. In 1989, Irelands second book, titled Life Lines, in which she talks about the setbacks in her life, including her son Jason's drug use. Ireland was working on writing a third book, Life Times, when she died in 1990 as a result of her illness.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">After her death, a TV movie made about her fight against breast cancer, based on her autobiography Life Lines. It was one of Irelands last wishes that her book could be made into a film.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-SPOR_3-1" len="169" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [3]  the television movieReason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story, in which Ireland is played by Jill Clayburgh, however, was challenged by her husband Charles Bronson.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-SPOR_3-2" len="169" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [3]  Bronson had initially allowed that Ireland was very open about her illness and her fight against cancer, but was more reserved after her death and wanted to protect the memory of Ireland. Bronson allegedly refused the $ 50,000 for the rights to Irelands book, which they agreed was with a production company. Bonny Dore, producer of the TV movie, filed a lawsuit against Bronson because of breach of contract, but the case was settled out of court.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-SPOR_3-3" len="169" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [3] ==Filmography<span class="mw-editsection" len="330" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==