Jill Larson Video | Celebrity Interview and Paparazzi

Jill Larson (born October 7, 1947) is an American dramatic actress. She is most widely known for her portrayal of Opal Cortlandt on the popular daytime drama, All My Children, a role she has played for 22 years, garnering her 2 Emmy nominations. She has also appeared in films such as Shutter Island with Leonardo DiCaprio, The Living Wake with Jessie Eisenberg, Were the World Mine, and White Squall with Jeff Bridges. Larson was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the daughter of Ruth Evangeline (née Boyce), an interior decorator, and John Charles Larson, an aerospace engineer. She has three... MORE

Jill Larson (born October 7, 1947) is an American dramatic actress. She is most widely known for her portrayal of Opal Cortlandt on the popular daytime drama, All My Children, a role she has played for 22 years, garnering her 2 Emmy nominations. She has also appeared in films such as Shutter Island with Leonardo DiCaprio, The Living Wake with Jessie Eisenberg, Were the World Mine, and White Squall with Jeff Bridges. Larson was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the daughter of Ruth Evangeline (née Boyce), an interior decorator, and John Charles Larson, an aerospace engineer. She has three sisters. Larson attended the same high school as Dorothy Lyman, who played Opal on All My Children before her. She enrolled at the University of Minnesota (eventually, she finished her education at Hunter College), and began singing in nightclubs with a group called Just Us. It was not long before Just Us was discovered and headed to New York City, where they recorded several soundtracks, including the one for the film, Rachel, Rachel, starring Joanne Woodward. She and her sister traveled throughout Europe in a bus, before she settled in Paris, France. She became a model, and was soon appearing in LESS