Jean Gilpin is a Margaret Hayden Rector Award-winning British television actress and voice-acting specialist. In the United Kingdom, she starred as Marion Fawcett in Semi-Mode (Glasgow Citizens' Theatre) and Duchess of Vanholt in Faustus (Royal Shakespeare Company).

United States theatre credits include Grace in Dance With Me (Working Stage); Victoria in Reservations (Hudson Stage); Beatrice in The Liars (Strasberg Stage); Mary in The Bald Soprano and Sara in Señor Galindez (Stages Theatre); Emma in Betrayal (California Repertory); Lady Augusta Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest (A Noise Within); Mistress Quickly in The Merry Wives of Windsor (Classical Theatre); the Mother in Transformations (Coronet Theatre); and her SFBATCC Award-winning role as the Wife in Greek (Matrix Theatre).

Television credits include Julia on BBC's The Duchess of Malfi and Sylvia on BBC’s Dad's Army.

Film credits include The World Is Full of Married Men.