Jill Bennett knew she was a lesbian at age 13, when her friend Heather squeezed her leg in the basement while watching a horror movie. Making her way as an out actress in today’s world didn’t prove to be quite so easy, costing her some opportunities and perhaps more mainstream success, but she’s got no regrets.
These days, she’s got her integrity to keep her warm plus plenty of acting gigs.
Jill can currently be seen in Here TV’s supernatural soap “Dante’s Cove,” scheduled to return for a fourth season this fall, and in the award winning hit webseries “3Way.” You can also find her in the new season of Logo’s animated show “Rick and Steve,” and in a memorable cameo in the festival favorite short “Tranny McGuyver.” Other TV appearances including recurring roles on the original “Beverly Hills 90210,” Steven Spielberg’s “The Others” and the CW sitcom “Zoe …”
She has three films recently released on DVD: X’s and O’s, “Shattered” and “Out at the Wedding.” Other recent films include “Expiration Date” and “The Pleasure Drivers.” Scheduled to premiere at San Francisco’s Frameline Film Festival in June, her newest feature “And Then Came Lola” is sweeping into every LGBT film festival of note.
Early this spring, Jill co-executive produced and starred in the webseries “We Have to Stop Now,” which just wrapped its first season in mid-April to rave reviews. The romantic comedy follows two lesbian therapists as they struggle to keep up the pretense of staying together when a documentary film crew invades their home after the success of their book How To Succeed In Marriage Without Even Trying.
Jill co-created the first hit lesbian video blog “We’re Getting Nowhere” for AfterEllen.com, which was nominated as Best Lesbian Vlog Ever for Logo’s NewNowNext Awards. She went solo in late 2008 and is now producing her own video blog “The Violet Underground” for SheWired.com.
07/15/09
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