Brenda Dickson is an American actress who originated the role of Jill Foster Abbott on the soap opera The Young and the Restless.

[1] As a teenager, she toured Southeast Asia singing and dancing for the armed forces with Bob Hope.

[2] At the age of 17, she won the title of Miss California USA in the Miss World pageant; it led to acting offers but she decided to continue performing at USO shows while studying acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in Los Angeles.

[10] In May 2013, Blue Boulevard Publications released Dickson's memoir, My True Hidden Hollywood Story.

[14] In 2007, Dickson was jailed in Hawaii because of a civil contempt order stemming from a divorce judgment from her ex-husband Jan Weinberg.