---
name: "Jayne Kennedy"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jayne-kennedy"
fi1m_id: "jayne-kennedy"
imdb_id: "nm0448092"
tmdb_id: 106724
wikidata_id: "Q6167890"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "27 October 1951"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T11:57:46.589484+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Jayne Kennedy

## Identity

Jayne Kennedy

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jayne-kennedy
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jayne-kennedy
- **IMDb ID:** nm0448092
- **TMDB ID:** 106724
- **Wikidata ID:** Q6167890
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayne_Kennedy, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6167890, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0448092/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/106724

Actor. Born 27 October 1951 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 27 October 1951, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayne_Kennedy, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6167890, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0448092/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/106724

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Body and Soul*](https://film.one/film/body-and-soul.md) (49)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## 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.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Body and Soul* (1981), Fi1m 49, as Julie Winters — [page](https://film.one/film/body-and-soul.md)

## Complete filmography (26)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Interception: Jayne Kenedy- American Sportscaster* (2024), as Producer
- *You Are Looking Live!* (2024), Actor
- *Jackie Robinson: An American Journey* (1988), as On Screen Narrator
- *Throb* (1986), series, Actor
- *227* (1985), series, Actor
- *Body and Soul* (1981), as Julie Winters — Fi1m 49, [page](https://film.one/film/body-and-soul.md)
- *Ms .45* (1981), as Seamstress
- *Siegfried and Roy - Superstars Of Magic* (1980), series, Actor
- *Mysterious Island of Beautiful Women* (1979), as Chocolate
- *Trapper John, M.D.* (1979), series, Actor
- *Diff'rent Strokes* (1978), series, Actor
- *Death Force* (1978), as Maria Russell · Associate Producer
- *The Love Boat* (1977), series, as Elsie, Kate Langley
- *CHiPs* (1977), series, as Paula Woods
- *Big Time* (1977), as Shana Baynes
- *Cover Girls* (1977), as Monique Lawrence
- *The Muthers* (1976), as Serena
- *Wonder Woman* (1975), series, as Carolyn Hamilton
- *Let's Do It Again* (1975), as Girl at Factory
- *Starsky & Hutch* (1975), series, Actor
- *Police Woman* (1974), series, Actor
- *The Six Million Dollar Man* (1974), series, as Louise
- *Kojak* (1973), series, as Tour Guide — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/kojak.md)
- *Police Story* (1973), series, Actor
- *Group Marriage* (1973), as Judy
- *Sanford and Son* (1972), series, Actor

## Gallery

- ![Jayne Kennedy](https://film.one/media/person/6779244/gallery-85b2a874c385.jpg) Jayne Kennedy — National Broadcasting Company, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/Jayne_Kennedy_1980.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Jayne Kennedy at the LA Times Book Fair in April 2026](https://film.one/media/person/6779244/gallery-a5180f44a99c.jpg) Jayne Kennedy at the LA Times Book Fair in April 2026 — Joe Sukkos, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/Jayne_Kennedy_LA_Times_Book_Fair_2026.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Jayne Kennedy](https://film.one/media/person/6779244/gallery-bcae3c2c09a1.jpg) Jayne Kennedy — Image via TMDB

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