Jennifer Jayne (14 November 1931 – 23 April 2006) was an English film and television actress born in Yorkshire to theatrical parents.

[2] Her film debut was a minor walk-on in Once a Jolly Swagman (1948), followed by The Blue Lamp (1949).

Both of these starred Dirk Bogarde and she also appeared in the mystery Black Widow, in 1951, with Anthony Forwood.

[1] She was a romantic lead in Raising the Wind (1961), set in a music academy and in Band of Thieves (1962), a musical comedy; she was also the leading lady in a Norman Wisdom vehicle, On the Beat (1962).

[1] Under the pseudonym Jay Fairbank, she wrote the screenplays for Tales That Witness Madness (1973) and Son of Dracula (1974)[3] She married art director Peter Mullins in 1958; they remained married until her death in 2006, aged 74.