Jenny Agutter
Jennifer Ann Agutter OBE is a British actress. She began her career as a child actress in 1964. Agutter moved to Hollywood at 21 and appeared in a number of films. In 1990, Agutter returned to the UK to concentrate on family life. She has starred in the BBC’s primetime ratings hit Call the Midwife.
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Jennifer Ann Agutter OBE is a British actress. She began her career as a child actress in 1964, appearing in East of Sudan, Star! and two adaptations of The Railway Children. Agutter moved to Hollywood at 21 and appeared in a number of films over the next decade, including The Eagle Has Landed, Equus, Logan’s Run and An American Werewolf in London. In 1990, Agutter returned to the UK to concentrate on family life and her focus shifted towards British television. Since 2012, she has starred in the BBC’s primetime ratings hit Call the Midwife. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2012 Birthday Honours for charitable services. She supports several charitable causes, mostly in relation to cystic fibrosis, a condition from which her niece suffers.
She is married with one adult son. She has appeared in Marvel’s The Avengers, and reprised her role in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. She also won an Emmy as supporting actress for her television role as Fritha, in a British television adaptation of The Snow Goose. She also appeared in The Buccaneers, an adaptation of Jeffrey Archer’s Not A Penny More, Not a Penny Less, in which she made a guest appearance as Idina Hatton, the guest star. She appeared in the TV series The Newcomers as Kirsty, the daughter of the new managing director of Eden Brothers, the fictional firm that was at the centre of the series. In the 1990s, she was cast in an adaptation. of Jeffrey Whithin’s Not a penny More, a guest star in the show made by Edith Wharton.
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