Jill Valentine (Anderson)

Jill Valentine is a former S.T.A.R.S. Police Officer and Anti-Umbrella renegade. She made her first appearance in Resident Evil: Apocalypse and will return in Resident Evil: Retribution as the antagonist of the film. She is portrayed by British actress, Sienna Guillory.

Resident Evil: Apocalypse
Jill had been a rising star in the S.T.A.R.S. organization, before her reputation was ruined after a botched mission know as "The Arklay Mountains Incident". She gained insight into a "classified bioweapon weakness", which was said to be a "cranial flaw". Initially the Umbrella Corporation intended to bribe her, so their bioweapons wouldn't lose market value. Had that failed, they planned to have her "neutralized". She attempted to go her superiors with the information she learned about and was suspended from duty under the implication that she suffered from post Truman stress disorder, a result of Leon Kennedy's supposed death in the Arklay Mountains.

Jill is first seen entering her apartment. Newspaper articles that are posted on a bulletin board hints at her dismissal from the S.T.A.R.S. unit. Jill turns on a police scanner and her television where she learns that Raccoon City is under attack by the undead. Jill hears her fellow police officer's pleas for help and decides to head there.



Once Jill reaches the police department she kills all of the zombies inside and rescues a criminal by the name of L.J.. She informs everyone inside the precinct that she's leaving town and they should do the same. As Jill exits the station everyone left inside quickly flees the building.

By the time Jill decides to leave Raccoon City, Umbrella has the city quarantined and the only way out is to pass through a checkpoint Umbrella had set up located at the Raven Gate Bridge. When Jill reaches the Raven's Gate Bridge she fights through the distraught crowd of Raccoon's citizens and makes her way to the Sergeant Peyton Wells. After their greeting a man in the crowd begins to convulse while Peyton and a few Umbrella soldiers try to control the situation.

Peyton manages to secure the man's daughter but is bitten when the man turns into zombie and bites Peyton in the leg. Jill is forced to shoot the infected man while Peyton held him down. This causes Major Timothy Cain to shut the gates and prevent people from leaving the city due to the risk of the infection spreading. Umbrella commands the citizens to return to their homes or they will have to take action. As Umbrella prepares to fire into the crowd, Terri Morales captures all of the chaos on her video camera. Umbrella opens fire on the crowd, while Jill and Peyton tells the crowd to leave.

Jill, Peyton and Terri make their way to the Raven's Gate Church and take refugee inside. Once inside the trio is confronted by a crazed man wielding a magnum revolver. Peyton calms him while Terri begins to question Jill about her opinion on the outbreak, though Jill doesn't answer. The group hears a weird noise coming from another part of the Church and Jill goes to investigate. Jill confronts a priest and his "sick" sister. Jill offers to help until she discovers the sister is actually a zombie and he's been feeding her body parts from dead humans. The priest's sister breaks free from her restraints. Jill prepares to kill her, however, the priest gets in the way and is bitten; Jill is forced to kill them both.

Jill heads back to the main area of the Church she hears a scream and goes to investigate. She soon discovers that the distraught man has been killed by a Licker. Upon making her way back to the main lobby of the Church she is apprehended by Peyton and he informs her that "creatures" are roaming around. The two decide that the best course of action is to kill as many as possible. Peyton and Jill run out of ammo before they kill any. Jill, Peyton and Terri are about to be overtaken by the Lickers, when Alice crashes through the Church's painted glass windows and kills the remaining Lickers with ease.

Jill, Alice, Peyton and Terri make their way through City cemetery. As they go on a bit further Peyton stops and begins to feel pain. Alice pulls her gun on him, resulting in immediate retaliation from Jill. Though Alice explains what will happen, Jill assures her that if Peyton turns she'll take care of it. Soon thereafter, the undead begin to rise from the graves and attack the group. Alice and Jill try to stop them but the group is forced to retreat.

As the group roam the streets they get a call from a Dr. Charles Ashford; He tells them that he can get them out of Raccoon City before Umbrella sends a nuclear missile to destroy the infection if and only they rescue his daughter, Angela Ashford.



On the way to Raccoon City Junior School where Doctor Ashford's daughter, Angela, is hiding at the group is confronted by the Nemesis and Peyton is killed. Jill tries fires on Nemesis to no avail, Alice tells Jill and Terri to run while she distracts the monster. While Jill hot wires a truck, accompanied by Terri, a revived Peyton attacks them. Jill is forced to kill him, shooting him point-blank in the head. As the two head for the school, they come across L.J., who she rescued back at the police department.

Once they reach Raccoon City Junior School, Jill tells L.J. and Terri that they'll all need to split up to find Angela. When Jill finally finds Angela, she discovers Terri has been killed. Jill and Angela make their way to the school's cafeteria, which is occupied by zombies and a pack of dogs. Jill tries her best to take care of them but the dogs are too much for her to handle. Nicholai Ginovaef comes to her aid and holds off the remaining dogs while Jill and Angela escape. Jill and Angela make their way to the kitchen, once again they are confronted by the pack of cerberus. They creep through the kitchen quick enough to reach the exit, and Angela rescued by Alice. They regroup with L.J. and Carlos Olivera, who informs them he and Nicholai --- who is found dead in the cafeteria --- were also sent by Ashford to rescue his daughter.

The group uses a pay phone outside of the school to contact Doctor Ashford, he informs them that the only way out of the city is on Umbrella helicopter at City Hall. The group travels to city hall and take out the Umbrella soldiers guarding the area. As the group boards the helicopter they are taken hostage by Timothy Cain. After a brief battle between Alice and Nemesis, Jill and the others are freed from their restraints. Jill secures Angela and joins in the fight against Umbrella soldiers. When the threat is neutralized, they board a helicopter and leave Raccoon City just as the nuclear warhead lands on the city. The helicopter is thrown into a tail spin and crashes just outside the city, somewhere in the Arklay Mountains. Everyone, save Alice, survived the crash and escaped before Umbrella arrived.

At a unknown point in time, Jill and the others sent Terri's recording of the outbreak to the news; their efforts, however, are thwarted by Umbrella, who circulate the false story of a nuclear reactor meltdown as the cause of the city's destruction. Their proof discredited as a hoax, Jill and Carlos are wanted by the authorities.

Three weeks after the Raccoon City incident, Jill along with Carlos, L.J., and Angela, learn of Alice's survival and infiltrate Umbrella Detroit Medical Facility as Alice regains her memories and escapes. Unknowing of Sam Isaacs' aid and the "Project Alice" program, they secure Alice from Umbrella and depart from facility grounds. Jill inquires what happened to Alice while she was there, she gets no response.

Resident Evil: Extinction
Originally, Jill Valentine was to appear in Resident Evil: Extinction as the leader of the convoy. Her role would've have been major and involved a subplot concerning her resentment toward Alice for killing Angela while under the control of Umbrella and her eventual sacrifice for the convoy when she became infected by a zombified Carlos. However, Sienna was unable reprise her role as Jill in the, due to scheduling conflicts with Eragon. As a result, she was written out of the movie and replaced with Ali Larter as Claire Redfield.


 * NOTE: The following section contains information that appears in the Resident Evil novelizations, which have been classified as non-canon from the primary movieverse.

In Extinction's novelization, it is explained that Jill was spotted by Federal Agents after escaping Raccoon City with the others. She surrendered to the authorities to buy the other survivors time to escape. After being interrogated, she was taken to San Francisco to advise local police and military on how to deal with the undead threat.

Over the next five years, Jill traveled the wasteland of North America, occasionally taking survivors to join up with the convoy that Carlos and L.J. were members of. She herself, however, had little interest in being part of a group, and stayed on her own.

Five years into the outbreak, Jill arrived in the ruins of Baltimore, where she stumbled upon a ruthless group of survivors holed up in the city convention center. They attempted to mug her, she escaped, however, killing two of her would-be murderers in the process. Continuing through the city, she discovered that the hundred or so humans outside of the convention center gang were slowly being killed off, either by starvation, murder, or the t-Virus. Gathering them together, she sought the aid of a former Baltimore police officer named Jasper, appealing to him by reminding of the oath they, as police officers, took, "to protect and serve." With the city's other inhabitants, they succeeded in retaking the convention center, establishing Baltimore as one of the few havens still available to humanity. She intended to leave once this was done, but Jasper convinced her to stay, arguing that she was the leader they needed.


 * Novelization information ends here

Afterlife and Retribution


Sienna Guillory reprised her role as Jill in Resident Evil: Afterlife, she appears midway through the beginning of the credits. Now controlled by Umbrella, Jill and dozen Umbrella soldiers, have been sent to eliminate all remaining survivors, including primary targets, Claire Redfield, Chris Redfield and "Project Alice". She informs her soldiers to take no prisoners and shoot to kill, they'll be in for the fight of their lives.

As one of the antagonists of Resident Evil: Retribution, Jill will lead her team to the successful capture of Chris, Claire and K-Mart.

Trivia

 * Natasha Henstridge was asked to play the role of Jill Valentine, but could not accept due to other work commitments.
 * Her appearance at the end of Afterlife, as well as her outfit, is a nod to Jill's situation in Resident Evil 5.
 * Sienna Guillory based her movements of Jill by watching the way the character moved in the game Resident Evil 3: Nemesis.