Gillian Hills (born 5 June 1944) is an actress and singer. She rose to fame as a teenager in the 1960s in the British films Beat Girl and later, Blowup. She also spent a number of years living in France, where she embarked on a singing career as well as starring in a number of French films.
Born in Cairo, Egypt, her father was the teacher, traveller, author and adventurer Denis Hills and her mother was Dunia Lesmianowna, daughter of Polish poet Bolesław Leśmian. Gillian Hills spent her early years in France where she was discovered by Roger Vadim who saw her as the new Brigitte Bardot and cast her in a version of Les liaisons dangereuses.
As a teenager, she starred in the classic British film Beat Girl in 1960, the soundtrack for which was among John Barry's earliest. Her co-star on this being a young Adam Faith in his first film role and the British Board of Film Censors ordered cuts be made before they would give an X certificate.
In 1960, she signed to the French Barclay Records label releasing her first EP entitled "Allo Brigitte..ne coupez pas!" and in 1961 appeared at the prestigious Olympia Theatre in Paris on the bill with Johnny Hallyday. She remained with Barclay until
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