Jayne Kennedy Overton (née Harrison; born October 27, 1951) is an American television personality, actress, model, corporate spokeswoman, producer, writer, public speaker, philanthropist, beauty pageant titleholder, and sports broadcaster. She won a 1982 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture for her role as Julie Winters in the 1981 film Body and Soul, co-starring with her then-husband Leon Isaac Kennedy.
Kennedy also received the NAACP Theater Award for Best Producer alongside her current husband Bill Overton for their production of the musical The Journey of the African American. She is an Emmy Award winner for her Rose Parade coverage and was nominated for an Emmy in 1980 for a news feature on soldiers on the DMZ in South Korea for NBC’s Speak Up America. Ebony Magazine named her one of “The 20 Greatest Sex Symbols of the 20th Century,” and in the 1980s, Coca Cola USA named her “The Most Admired Black Woman in America.”
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