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Canadian actress, animal care activist (b. 1957)
Teresa “Teri” Austin (born April 17, 1957) is a Canadian animal care 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.
Born and raised in Toronto, Canada,[2] Austin began her acting career there in television, film, radio and theatre. She co-hosted the show Thrill of a Lifetime before moving to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career there.[3][4]
Austin is best-known for her performance as Jill Bennett on CBS series Knots Landing.[5] She played the role from 1985 to 1989, and in 1990 won Soap Opera Digest Award for Outstanding Villain: Prime Time.[6] 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 film, she appeared in The Vindicator (1986) and Raising Cain (1992).
In 2001, Austin left acting and began working as animal care activist in Los Angeles,[5] creating The Amanda Foundation.[7][8]
Austin and Knots Landing co-star Ted Shackelford were roommates at one point of time when the show was on television.[9]
- ^ Profile, marykiserwrites.com. Accessed October 9, 2025.
- ^ “Teri Austin”. NNDB. Retrieved October 23, 2018.
- ^ Hoogenboom, Lynn (February 13, 1987). “Teri Austin is doing what she always wanted to do”. Huntingdon Daily News. Retrieved October 11, 2017.
- ^ “Live Wire Teri Austin Turns a Knots Plot into a Real-Life Romance – Vol. 27 No. 18”. PEOPLE.com. May 4, 1987. Retrieved October 11, 2017.
- ^ a b Pennacchio, George (May 21, 2006). “Actress Teri Austin Now Known as Animal Activist 5/21/06”. Abclocal.go.com. Archived from the original on November 5, 2013. Retrieved October 20, 2013.
- ^ “The Soap Opera Digest Awards: 1990”. Soap Opera Digest. soapoperadigest.com. April 11, 2003. Archived from the original on March 3, 2009. Retrieved March 15, 2013.
- ^ “The Amanda Foundation | About”. The Amanda Foundation. Retrieved November 19, 2021.
- ^ Diamond, Wendy (November 15, 2012). “Teri Austin of The Amanda Foundation”. Animal Fair. Retrieved November 19, 2021.
- ^ https://people.com/archive/live-wire-teri-austin-turns-a-knots-plot-into-a-real-life-romance-vol-27-no-18
