Jill Craigie (7 March 1914, Fulham—13 December 1999, Camden) was a pioneering British documentary film director, actor and writer, feminist and wife of distinguished Labour Party politician, Michael Foot.

Craigie was born in London to a Russian mother and Scottish father. She left school at 18 to work as a journalist but by 1937 had become a film actress. However, she became politicised by world events of the 1930s and decided to turn to filmmaking.

Initially she worked as a documentary scriptwriter from 1940 until 1942 when she left to write a feature-length screenplay, The Flemish Farm (1943), which was directed by Craigie's then husband Jeffrey Dell . She then scripted, produced and directed the half-hour documentary, Out of Chaos (1944) about Graham Sutherland, Stanley Spencer, Henry Moore and Paul Nash.

After World War II, Craigie's interest in the arts lead to the making of The Way We Live (1946). During the making of this film, she met the Labour MP Michael Foot. They married in 1949.

Her next film was Children of the Ruins (1948), a short documentary about UNESCO's work with children displaced by two world wars. This was followed by the feature length documentary Blue Scar (1949) about a South Wales mining village, made by Outlook Films, her own production company formed with William MacQuitty in 1948. The villagers acted in the film and were actively involved in the scriptwriting. Her final film for Outlook was the documentary, To Be a Woman (1951), arguing for equal pay for women.

Frustrated by the industry's obstructive attitude to female directors, Craigie gave up directing and wrote two screenplays, The Million Pound Note (1953) and Windom's Way (1957). She then retired from the film business until the 1990s, when she financed and directed a documentary about the ravaged city and people of Dubrovnik. Two Hours from London (1995), her final film, was shown on BBC television.

In latter years Craigie became an authority on the suffragette movement. She believed she had one of the largest collections of feminist literature in Britain, with pamphlets dating back to John Stuart Mill.

Craigie had a daughter Julie from her first marriage. She and Foot had no children themselves but were fully committed to their family life with Julie and, later, her four children. They lived in a flat in Hampstead, north London, and a cottage in Ebbw Vale, South Wales. In 1998, Craigie confirmed she had been beaten and raped by the late Hungarian-born writer Arthur Koestler shortly after she had married.

Craigie died in 1999 at the Royal Free Hospital in north west London, aged 85.