Jenny Agutter

Jenny Agutter

Birthday: 1952-12-20

Place of Birth: Taunton, Somerset, England, UK

Biography: Jennifer Ann "Jenny" Agutter (born 20 December 1952) is an English film and television actress. She began her career as a child actress in the mid 1960s, starring in the BBC television series The Railway Children and the film adaptation of the same book, before moving on to adult roles and relocating to Hollywood. She played Alex Price in An American Werewolf in London, Jessica 6 in Logan's Run, Joanne Simpson in Child's Play 2 and Jill Mason in Equus. Since the 1990s, she has worked in sound recording, and she is a patron of the Cystic Fibrosis Trust. After a break from acting she has appeared in several television series since 2000, including the British series Spooks and Call the Midwife.

Movies

Red Dwarf: Smeg Ups
Red Dwarf: Smeg Ups

Kryten presents a collection of bloopers from series 4 to 6 of Red Dwarf....

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An American Werewolf in London
An American Werewolf in London

American tourists David and Jack are savagely attacked by an unidentified animal while hiking on the...

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Irina Palm
Irina Palm

Maggie, a quiet retiring grandmother, finds herself helpless as her grandson’s health deteriorates. ...

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The Man in the Iron Mask
The Man in the Iron Mask

Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with t...

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Logan's Run
Logan's Run

In the 23rd century, inhabitants of a domed city freely experience all of life's pleasures — but no ...

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Child's Play 2
Child's Play 2

Chucky is reconstructed by a toy factory to dispel the negative publicity surrounding the doll, and ...

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The Eagle Has Landed
The Eagle Has Landed

When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a cou...

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China 9, Liberty 37
China 9, Liberty 37

Gunslinger Clayton Drumm is about to be hanged when he is given a chance to live if he agrees to mur...

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The Riddle of the Sands
The Riddle of the Sands

In the early years of the 20th Century, two British yachtsmen (Michael York and Simon MacCorkindale)...

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The Railway Children
The Railway Children

At the dawn of the 20th century, following their father's arrest on suspicion of betraying state sec...

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The Avengers
The Avengers

When an unexpected enemy emerges and threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, director of th...

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Walkabout
Walkabout

Under the pretense of having a picnic, a geologist takes his teenage daughter and 6-year-old son int...

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Glorious 39
Glorious 39

A mysterious tale set around a traditional British family on the eve of World War Two. Oblivious to ...

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The Railway Children
The Railway Children

At the dawn of the 20th century, following their father's arrest on suspicion of betraying state sec...

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Beware the Moon: Remembering 'An American Werewolf in London'
Beware the Moon: Remembering 'An American Werewolf in London'

Host Paul Davis takes a trip through some of the iconic backdrops of John Landis' 1981 werewolf clas...

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Blue Juice
Blue Juice

JC is the hero of the Cornish surfing community. Staring thirty hard in the face, he fears that the ...

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Shelley
Shelley

TV Movie directed by Alan Bridges...

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Max's Christmas
Max's Christmas

Irrepressible Max wants to stay up late on Christmas so he can see Santa Claus....

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Golden Brown
Golden Brown

Golden Brown is set in England, in Stunning 1960's Cornwall and 1970's Essex. David, a young boy of ...

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The Survivor
The Survivor

When a 747 crashes shortly after take-off, the sole survivor is the pilot. Virtually unhurt, he and ...

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Silas Marner
Silas Marner

Adaption of George Eliot's novel. When a respectable weaver is wrongfully accused of theft, he becom...

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Outside Bet
Outside Bet

A group of print workers in 1980s London club together to buy a race horse....

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Dark Tower
Dark Tower

A partially under construction office tower is being haunted by a deadly presence which seems to tar...

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Freddie As F.R.O.7.
Freddie As F.R.O.7.

Frederick is a young medieval French prince with magical powers, turned into a frog by his evil sorc...

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The Cherry Orchard
The Cherry Orchard

Madame Ranevskaya is a spoiled, aging aristocratic lady who returns from a trip to Paris to face the...

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King of the Wind
King of the Wind

In 1727, an Arab colt is born with the signs of the wheat ear and the white spot on his heel: evil a...

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Dominique
Dominique

The wife of a greedy man comes back to haunt him after he scares her to death....

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Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less
Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less

Four victims of a stock swindle meet and plot to get their money back from the crooked financier res...

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Gates to Paradise
Gates to Paradise

In 1212, a Children's Crusade is launched after a young shepherd, Jacques de Cloyes, claims to have ...

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At Dawning
At Dawning

At Dawning stars Jenny Agutter as a woman escaping from a one night stand, who encounters a suicidal...

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Kiss Me and Die
Kiss Me and Die

When his brother vanishes without a trace, American Robert Stone goes to his last known location: a ...

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Othello
Othello

Adaptation of Shakespeare's play....

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Amy
Amy

A woman leaves her husband after the death of her child to teach deaf children how to speak. Her own...

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Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Captain America: The Winter Soldier

After the cataclysmic events in New York with The Avengers, Steve Rogers, aka Captain America is liv...

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The Snow Goose
The Snow Goose

Based upon Paul Gallico's delicate novel, Patrick Garland's Golden Globe winning The Snow Goose is a...

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The Wild Duck
The Wild Duck

A devestating, yet bracing look at a family whose proximity to each other belies the decay of their ...

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East of Sudan
East of Sudan

A British soldier escapes from 1880s Khartoum and goes down the Nile river with a fellow soldier, a ...

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I Start Counting
I Start Counting

An English schoolgirl suspects the foster brother she worships is a serial killer....

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Queen of the Desert
Queen of the Desert

A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and ...

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Sweet William
Sweet William

William is a dashing and eccentric Scotsman whose charms rapidly overwhelm the sweet and naïve Ann, ...

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Act of God
Act of God

When a heart surgeon chooses to save one female patient's life over another, her boyfriend looks for...

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Equus
Equus

A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in ...

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A War of Children
A War of Children

A Protestant and a Catholic family's friendship is threatened by the sectarian violence in Belfast....

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Star!
Star!

Gertrude Lawrence rises to stage stardom at the cost of happiness....

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Be Pretty and Shut Up!
Be Pretty and Shut Up!

The film is a series of interviews with various well-known film actresses, including Jenny Agutter, ...

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This Office Life
This Office Life

On arrival at British Albion, Mr Gryce felt that his lack of ambition would be completely fulfilled....

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Love's Labour's Lost
Love's Labour's Lost

A scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only to ha...

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Nicolas Roeg: It's About Time...
Nicolas Roeg: It's About Time...

The first major profile of the great British film director Nicolas Roeg, examining his very personal...

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School Play
School Play

Life in an English public school - with all the parts played by adults....

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The Mapmaker
The Mapmaker

A short UK drama following an ageing couple who return to the seaside where they were happy 50 years...

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The Parole Officer
The Parole Officer

A hapless parole officer is framed for murder by a crooked police chief. To prove his innocence he m...

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Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure
Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure

In 1620, the Assembly of the Pilgrims decides to emigrate to the young America because of the persec...

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The Magic Door
The Magic Door

A magic Troll aims to defeat the Black Witch and find the magic door that will lead him home with th...

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Number One, Longing. Number Two, Regret
Number One, Longing. Number Two, Regret

When John Spears (Paul Conway) is arrested on suspicion of murdering his neighbour, detectives Kenos...

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The Grand Knockout Tournament
The Grand Knockout Tournament

The Grand Knockout Tournament (colloquially also known as It's a Royal Knockout) was a one-off chari...

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Secret Places
Secret Places

Young girls, soon to be women, sharing everything...except their secret places....

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Darkman
Darkman

Dr. Peyton Westlake is on the verge of realizing a major breakthrough in synthetic skin when his lab...

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Tin
Tin

Cornwall 1895: a blatant swindle by the local bank threatens the life of a remote mining village. Th...

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Heroes and Villains
Heroes and Villains

Comedy following the exploits of four 20-something London flatmates who devise a wild money making s...

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Sometimes Always Never
Sometimes Always Never

Alan is a stylish tailor with moves as sharp as his suits. He has spent years searching tirelessly f...

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Interview with Jenny Agutter
Interview with Jenny Agutter

Interview with actress Jenny Agutter concerning her performance in Nicolas Roeg's 1971 film WALKABOU...

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Burke & Hare
Burke & Hare

Two 19th-century opportunists become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable busin...

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A Look Into the 23rd Century
A Look Into the 23rd Century

The movie Logan's Run (1976) depicts a supposedly Utopian society in the 23rd century, but one where...

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Miss Right
Miss Right

After falling for Juliette, the woman of his dreams, a womanizing journalist in Rome must dump his n...

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Ballerina
Ballerina

Story of a young ballet student in Denmark who succeeds despite her mother’s objections....

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Working with a Master: John Landis
Working with a Master: John Landis

Short documentary about John Landis and his horror works....

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The Perfect Scary Movie
The Perfect Scary Movie

A documentary looking at the various conventions and scare techniques of the horror genre....

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Rosamunde Pilcher: September
Rosamunde Pilcher: September

Verena Steynton is holding a party for her daughter. All the aristocratic families of Strathcroy in ...

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The Railway Children Return
The Railway Children Return

Follow a group of children who are evacuated to a Yorkshire village during the Second World War, whe...

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Late Flowering Love
Late Flowering Love

Light dramatisation of four poems by poet laureete Sir John Betjeman, set on location in the south o...

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Pagan's Progress
Pagan's Progress

Paganism is claimed by some to be the fastest growing religion in Great Britain. Everyman visits a n...

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The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens
The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens

British television film about the life of Charles Dickens directed by Ned Sherrin and starring Antho...

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