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Personal Info

Birth date

1952-12-20 (72 Years)

Gender

Female

Known for

Acting

Place of birth

Taunton, Somerset, England, UK

Also known as

Jennifer Agutter
Τζένι Αγκουτέρ
جنی اگاتر

Jenny Agutter

Biography

Jennifer Ann "Jenny" Agutter 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.

Filmography

Acting

2022The Railway Children Return as Roberta 'Bobbie' Waterbury

2019Sometimes Always Never as Margaret

2015Queen of the Desert as Florance Bell

2015Nicolas Roeg: It's About Time... as Self

2015Tin as Marjorie Dawson

2014Captain America: The Winter Soldier as Councilwoman Hawley

2014The Kumars (1 Episode) as Self

2012The Golden Age of Steam Railways (2 Episodes) as Narrator (Voice)

2012The Mapmaker as Isabel

2012True Love (1 Episode) as Holly's Mum

2012Outside Bet as Shirley Baxter

2012The Avengers as World Security Council

2012Call the Midwife (109 Episodes) as Sister Julienne

2011Golden Brown as Sarah

2010Burke & Hare as Lucy

2009Glorious 39 as Maud

2009Beware the Moon: Remembering 'An American Werewolf in London' as Self

2009Monday Monday (7 Episodes) as Jenny

2009Moving On (1 Episode) as Jean

2009Act of God as Catherine Cisco

2008Interview with Jenny Agutter as Interviewee

2008The Invisibles (6 Episodes) as Barbera Riley

2007The Magic Door as The Black Witch

2007Irina Palm as Jane

2006Heroes and Villains as June

2006Working with a Master: John Landis as Self

2005The Perfect Scary Movie as Self

2005Diamond Geezer (3 Episodes) as Vanessa

2004Number One, Longing. Number Two, Regret as Kenosha

2004The Alan Clark Diaries (6 Episodes) as Jane Clark

2004New Tricks (1 Episode) as Yvonne Barrie

2002Spooks (8 Episodes) as Tessa Phillips

2002The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (1 Episode) as Jemma Sanderson

2002At Dawning as Escaping Woman

2001The Parole Officer as Victor's Wife

2000The Railway Children as Mother

1998A Respectable Trade (4 Episodes) as Lady Scott

1997Midsomer Murders (1 Episode) as Isobel Chettham

1996Rosamunde Pilcher: September as Isobel

1996And the Beat Goes On (8 Episodes) as Connie Fairbrother Spencer

1996Noel's Telly Years (1 Episode) as Unknown

1996September (2 Episodes) as Isobel

1995Blue Juice as Guinevere / Mary Fenton

1995Bramwell (2 Episodes) as Mrs. Bruce

1995The Buccaneers (2 Episodes) as Idina Hatton

1994The All New Alexei Sayle Show (6 Episodes) as Unknown

1994Red Dwarf: Smeg Ups as Professor Mamet

1992Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (1 Episode) as Hermoine (voice)

1992Freddie as F.R.O.7. as Daffers (voice)

1992Heartbeat (2 Episodes) as Susannah Temple-Richards

1990Child's Play 2 as Joanne Simpson

1990Darkman as Burn Doctor (uncredited)

1990Dream On (1 Episode) as Ellen

1990King of the Wind as Hannah Coke

1990Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less as Jill Albery

1990The Outsiders (1 Episode) as Maria Rogers

1990TECX (13 Episodes) as Kate Milverton

1989Snoops (1 Episode) as Veronica Hughes

1989Agatha Christie's Poirot (1 Episode) as Adela Marchmont

1988Max's Christmas as Unknown

1988Dear John (1 Episode) as Sarah

1988Red Dwarf (1 Episode) as Professor Mamet

1987Dark Tower as Carolyn Page

1987The Grand Knockout Tournament as Self

1985Silas Marner as Nancy Lammeter

1985The Twilight Zone (1, 1 Episode) as Jacinda Carlyle (segment "Voices in the Earth"), Morgan Le Fay (segment "The Last Defender of Camelot")

1985The Equalizer (1 Episode) as Lauren Demeter

1985Love's Labour's Lost as Rosaline

1984This Office Life as Pam

1984Murder, She Wrote (1 Episode) as Margo Claymore

1984Secret Places as Miss Lowrie

1982Miss Right as Purse Snatching Victim (uncredited)

1981An American Werewolf in London as Nurse Alex Price

1981The Survivor as Hobbs

1981Late Flowering Love as Unknown

1981Amy as Amy Medford

1981Be Pretty and Shut Up! as Self

1981Othello as Desdemona

1980Magnum, P.I. (1 Episode) as Krista Villeroch

1980Beulah Land (3 Episodes) as Lizzie Corlay

1980Sweet William as Ann Walton

1980Dominique as Ann Ballard

1979Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure as Priscilla Mullins

1979The Riddle of the Sands as Clara Dollmann

1979School Play as Miss Jackson

1978China 9, Liberty 37 as Catherine Sebanek

1977Equus as Jill Mason

1977The Hollywood Greats (1 Episode) as Unknown

1977The Man in the Iron Mask as Louise de La Vallière

1976The Eagle Has Landed as Molly Prior

1976Logan's Run as Jessica

1976A Look Into the 23rd Century as Self

1975Shadows (1 Episode) as Unknown

1974Dinah! (1 Episode) as Self

1974Playhouse (1 Episode) as Miss P. Jackson

1974Kiss Me and Die as Dominie Lanceford

1974The Six Million Dollar Man (2 Episodes) as Dr. Leah Russell

1973Thriller (1 Episode) as Dominie Lanceford

1972A War of Children as Maureen Tomelty

1972Shelley as Mary Shelley

1971The Cherry Orchard as Anya

1971The Snow Goose as Fritha

1971Walkabout as Girl

1971The Ten Commandments (1 Episode) as Bess Clark

1971The Wild Duck as Hedvig Ekdal

1970The Railway Children as Roberta 'Bobbie' Waterbury

1970I Start Counting as Wynne

1968Star! as Pamela Roper (uncredited)

1968Gates to Paradise as Maud de Cloyes

1968The Railway Children (7 Episodes) as Roberta Faraday

1966Ballerina as Ingrid Jensen

1965BBC Play of the Month (1, 1 Episode) as Anya, Hedvig Ekdal

1964East of Sudan as Asua

1951Hallmark Hall of Fame (1 Episode) as Frith