Jill Valentine

Jill Valentine is a video game character in the Resident Evil survival horror series. She is one of the main characters in the original Resident Evil and the main heroine in Resident Evil 3: Nemesis. She also appears in the second Resident Evil movie, Resident Evil: Apocalypse.

Story
A member of the Alpha S.T.A.R.S. team, Jill was taken onto the team given her considerable knowledge in bomb disposal and mechanics. Considered resourceful and intelligent by her peers, Jill was already acquainted with her fellow S.T.A.R.S. members Chris Redfield and Forest Speyer prior to joining the squad.

On July 24 1998, S.T.A.R.S. Bravo team was deployed to Raccoon Forest after evidence of grisly, cannibalistic murders. After contact with Bravo was lost, the Alpha team were sent to the forest to find Bravo team. Soon after their arrival, the team found the destroyed remains of Bravo's helicopter and were quickly attacked by Cerberus hound dogs. After witnessing the death of member fellow Alpha member Joseph Frost, the team was abandoned by their helicopter pilot (Brad Vickers) and the remaining members fled to a nearby mansion, the Spencer Estate.

Jill, along with fellow survivors Barry Burton and Albert Wesker, assumed the mansion to be deserted. They would quickly discover the various beasts and monsters inhabiting the mansion, as well as the remains of their fallen Bravo Team compatriots. Through her cooperation with Barry, Jill was able to discover that the mansion was actually a front for a top-secret research facility owned by the Umbrella Corporation. They also find that Wesker is a double-agent working for Umbrella, and plotted the whole operation in order to destroy the S.T.A.R.S. team. However, after Wesker was seemingly killed by one of his own creations, Jill and Barry escaped along with Chris Redfield and surviving Bravo Team member Rebecca Chambers, leaving behind the ruins of Spencer Mansion.

After their return to Raccoon City, S.T.A.R.S. request for a full-scale investigation of Umbrella's activities was denied by their superior, Chief Brian Irons of the RPD. With no support from the American government, Chris, Barry and Jill decided to travel to Europe and investigate Umbrella's main headquarters themselves.

Three months after the mansion incident, Jill was ready to make her trip to Europe, when the Raccoon City was infected with the T-Virus. During her escape, she witnessed the death of Alpha Team's pilot Brad Vickers, at the hands of "Nemesis", a BOW sent by Umbrella to assassinate the remaining S.T.A.R.S. members. Jill managed to thwart Nemesis temporarily and met with Carlos Oliveira, a surviving member of the UBCS (Umbrella Biohazard-Countermeasure Service) along with Nicholai Ginovaef and Mikhail Victor. However, Mikhail lost his life protecting Jill from Nemesis and Nicholai was presumed dead after a zombie attack. Jill and Carlos ended up in a nearby clock tower after their train collided off-course. During the following battle with Nemesis, Jill was infected with the Nemesis-Virus and lay in a semi-coma for a few hours.

Shortly after the events surrounding Resident Evil 2, Jill later recovered after being administered with a serum by Carlos, and later discovered another one of Umbrella's secret research facilities hidden behind a park. In this lab, she confronted Nicholai for the last time and fought with Nemesis once again. Jill successfully destroyed Nemesis with a top-secret weapon stored in the facility and managed to escape from the city with Carlos via helicopter. As they flew away, Jill witnessed the destruction of Raccoon after the US goverment ordered the city to be bombed, not nuked. Jill, Barry and Carlos would go on to become involved in various Anti-Umbrella groups and activities.

Jill's current doings are unknown at this time, though many fans anxiously await an appearance by Jill in the post-Umbrella Resident Evil world.

Appearances
Jill was one of the two main playable characters in the original Resident Evil. In Jill's version of the game, the player is given a higher item capacity, along with additional equipment such as a lockpick and a Grenade Launcher, making the game easier for those inexperienced with the Resident Evil series. Jill was later given the starring role in Resident Evil 3: Nemesis. She is one of the more popular Resident Evil characters within Capcom's internal staff, making cameo appearances in Pocket Fighter, SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters Clash and Marvel vs. Capcom 2. Jill also makes a rather humorous appearance in the off beat Under the Skin along with a comedic representation of the Resident Evil 3 setting. This game was only released in Japan as of now. She was portrayed by Sienna Guillory in the live-action movie Resident Evil: Apocalypse, which was loosely based on the events of Nemesis.

In the live-action sequences of the first game, she was played by an unknown actress known only as Inezh. Her voice was provided by Catherine Disher in Resident Evil 3: Nemesis and by Heidi Anderson in the 2002 remake of the original Resident Evil.

Wardrobe
Jill has the most alternate outfits of all Resident Evil characters. Her standard and most well-known outfit is a pair of blue assault pants with a light blue tight shirt and body armour, completed with a blue beret on her head. In addition to her S.T.A.R.S. uniform in the first game, Jill wore a casual outfit consisting of jeans and a black middriff. In Resident Evil: Director's Cut, she wore a sleeveless blouse with jeans and boots as a default outfit in the game's Arranged Mode. The Saturn version of the first game also featured Jill in an alternate version of her S.T.A.R.S. uniform.

In Resident Evil 3, she wears a blue tube top and mini-skirt as her default outfit. This is also a well-known outfit and is the outfit worn by Sienna Guillory in the second film. She has a total of five alternate outfits (eight in later versions), including her original S.T.A.R.S. uniform, a Regina (heroine of Dino Crisis 1 & 2) outfit, a police mini-skirt, a biker outfit, and a disco outfit. The Resident Evil remake featured her standard Resident Evil 3 outfit and a new military outfit modeled after Sarah Connor's outfit from Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

During the original games' conception, Jill is notorious for going through more changes in her appearance than any other character.

Movies


In the movie Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Jill is portrayed by Sienna Guillory. Early in the film a newspaper article in her apartment hints at her dismissal from the S.T.A.R.S. unit and her involvement with Nemesis both add to similarities between the movie and the game Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, although due to the vastly different conclusion, as well as the role of Alice, the game and movie are widely considered alternate universes.

Novels
In S.D. Perry's novelizations of the games, it is stated that Jill was a professional thief prior to her career in Delta Force. This would explain her unrivaled infiltration skills and skills at lockpicking. However, this backstory is not supported by any of the games and considered non-canotical.

Jill Valentine

Actors

 * Heidi Anderson is the current voice of Jill Valentine as seen in Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes and the GameCube version of Biohazard (Resident Evil in America, known as REmake to fans.).
 * In the movie Resident Evil: Apocalypse, she is portrayed by Sienna Guillory.
 * Her voice actresses in the past include Catherine Disher in Biohazard 3: Last Escape.
 * She was portrayed by an unknown actress simply known as Inezh in the original Biohazard.