Jill Wagner

On April 8, 2017, she married her long-time boyfriend David Lemanowicz. They have a daughter named Lija.

Jill was born Jill Suzanne Wagner, on January 13, 1979, in Winston–Salem, North Carolina, US. She lost her mother shortly after her birth and was raised by her father, David Wagner, a US Marine, and her grandmother. She has an elder brother.

Jill studied in the ‘Ledford Senior High School’ in Wallburg, North Carolina, and she then obtained a bachelor's degree in business management in 2001 from the ‘North Carolina State University.’

She also attended the internationally renowned ‘Barbizon Modeling and Acting School’ in its Raleigh center and graduated from there. Thus, she earned the name ‘Miss Barbizon.’

Jill had resolved to step into the entertainment industry and thus, relocated to California to commence her career in modeling.

In 2003, she landed up as a cast member of the MTV series ‘Punk'd.’ The show was created by Jason Goldberg and Ashton Kutcher, and it featured practical jokes, filmed by hidden cameras. Jill featured as ‘Field Agent’ in the show and appeared in six of its episodes, taking part in around a dozen of its sketches.

Following this exposure, she featured in the British men's magazine ‘Stuff.’ She achieved another feat when the international men's magazine ‘Maxim’ ranked her number 90 on its list of ‘Hot 100 Women of 2004.’

In 2004, she appeared in three television series. These include an episode of the comedy-drama ‘Monk,’ titled ‘Mr. Monk and the Employee of the Month,’ which aired on August 6; two episodes of the drama ‘Dr. Vegas,’ titled ‘Dead Man, Live Bet’ and ‘All In,’ which aired on October 8 and October 15 respectively; and an episode of the sitcom ‘Quintuplets,’ titled ‘Thanksgiving Day Charade,’ which aired on November 24.

From 2005 to 2011, she featured in various TV advertisements, as the spokesmodel of ‘Mercury,’ a brand of the multinational automaker ‘Ford.’ Such ads, of the now defunct brand, led her to be known as ‘The Mercury Girl.’