Teresa "Teri" Austin (born April 17, 1957) is a Canadian animal activist and former actress.

She had her greatest acting success in the 1980s and 1990s, and is best known for her role as Jill Bennett in the CBS primetime soap opera Knots Landing, and as co-host of the Canadian reality series Thrill of a Lifetime.

[4] She played the role from 1985 to 1989, and in 1990 won Soap Opera Digest Award for Outstanding Villain: Prime Time.

[5] She also appeared in Quantum Leap, Seinfeld, Matlock, Murder, She Wrote, L.A. Law, and returned to soap roles in Beverly Hills, 90210 and Models Inc..

In 2001, Austin left acting and began working as animal activist in Los Angeles,[4] creating The Amanda Foundation.