Biography
Jayne Kennedy is an American actress, model and sports broadcaster. Born Jayne Harrison on 27 October 1951 in Washington, D.C., she was crowned Miss Ohio USA in 1970, the first African American woman to win the title. She began her career as a dancer on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In and The Dean Martin Show before appearing in guest roles on television series including The Six Million Dollar Man, Sanford and Son, Starsky & Hutch, Wonder Woman and CHiPs.
In film she played Julie Winters in the 1981 boxing drama Body and Soul, opposite then-husband Leon Isaac Kennedy, and received the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture in 1982. She also worked as a sports commentator on CBS's The NFL Today in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Kennedy later married actor Bill Overton.
