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 Jenny Agutter
Since making her name in the popular family film The Railway Children, Jenny Agutter's never looked back. She successfully made the transition from child to adult actress, with movie credits including Walkabout and Logan's Run. Meanwhile, her TV roles have ranged from The Buccaneers to the hit spy drama Spooks.
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Throughout her career Jenny's been closely linked with The Railway Children. She appeared as a child in the 1967 TV adaptation, then in the classic 1970 film of the book. Finally in 2000 she played the mother in a new TV version.
As well as Logan's Run and Walkabout, Jenny's other film credits include The Parole Officer (2001), An American Werewolf In London (1981), The Eagle Has Landed (1976) and East of Sudan (1964 - when she was just 11 years old).
Her many TV roles range from The Snow Goose, for which she won an Emmy award, and The Man in the Iron Mask in the 1970s to Silas Marner in the 1980s to The Buccanners and Bramwell in the 1990s.
Jenny's guest starred in numerous TV shows including Red Dwarf, Heartbeat, The Equalizer, The Twilight Zone and Murder She Wrote.
More recently she's starred as MI5 boss Tessa in the popular BBC spy drama Spooks alongside Matthew Macfadyen and Lisa Faulkner.
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Jenny is a fan of controversial rap star Eminem.
She didn't live with a man until she married her husband at the age of 38.
Jenny does a lot of work for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust after discovering that she carries the gene which causes .
She's highly skilled at Yoga.
In 1977, she won Best Supporting Actress BAFTA for her role as Jill Mason in Equus.
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| Personal Details |
| Jenny was born in Somerset, England, in December 1952.
She now lives in Cornwall with her husband Johan and son Jonathan.
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