Jayne Kennedy Overton, born Jayne Harrison on 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, starring alongside her then-husband Leon Isaac Kennedy.

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She also snagged an NAACP Theater Award for Best Producer with her current husband, Bill Overton, for their critically acclaimed musical The Journey of the African American. Kennedy earned an Emmy for her coverage of the Rose Parade and got an Emmy nod for her news feature on soldiers at the DMZ in South Korea for NBC’s Speak Up America in 1980. Ebony Magazine crowned 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.”