Jill Teed is a Canadian actress who resides in Vancouver with her young daughter. She is a genre actress who appears in many sci-fi roles. She has appeared in a range of television guest roles such Street Justice, The X-Files, Stargate SG-1, Sliders, and The Outer Limits.She has appeared in such feature films as X-Men 2 as Bobby Drake's mother, Mission to Mars and Turbulence II: Fear of Flying. She played the role of FBI Agent Kaayla Brooks in "Reluctant Heroes", a Season Four episode of Highlander: The Series. Most recently she played Maggie Sawyer, a Metropolis police chief, on Smallville. She portrayed Sergeant Hadrian, the Galactica's Master-at-Arms, in the first season of Battlestar Galactica. She played Colonel Lasky in the web series Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn.
Her portrayal of Maggie Sawyer on Smallville (2001) marks the live-action debut of the character. Also, based on the character's sexual orientation in the comics, she portrays one of the very few LGBT characters featured in this series.
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Along with Dylan Neal, appears in both Smallville (2001) and Arrow (2012), both based on DC Comics characters and both featuring Oliver Queen/Green Arrow.
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She made guest appearances on all four of the longest running North American science fiction series: "The X Files" (1993), "Stargate SG-1", "Smallville" and "Supernatural".