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Jennifer Ann Agutter was born in Taunton, Somerset. The daughter of a British Army officer, she travelled the world as a child. Her first film appearance was in East of Sudan ( 1964). She first came to the attention of television audiences as Roberta in a BBC dramatisation of The Railway Children, and went on to play the same part in Lionel Jeffries ' 1970 film of the book. Her quality of ingenuousness led on to a more serious role in I Start Counting ( 1969).

Agutter began a transition to adult roles in Walkabout (1971), playing a teenaged schoolgirl who was lost in the Australian outback with her younger brother. The film's theme of the transition from childhood to adulthood mirrored Agutter's life and career at the time.

Agutter appeared in a number of films over the next decade, including: The Snow Goose (1971), The Eagle Has Landed (1976), Logan's Run (1976), Equus (1977), Sweet William (1980), and An American Werewolf in LondonAn American Werewolf in London is a horror film released in 1981, written and directed by John Landis. The movie was followed by a 1997 semi-sequel, An American Werewolf in Paris with a completely different cast. Plot synopsis Two American college student (1981).

In the last decade, Agutter has mainly worked in television. She has appeared in the TV series TECX, The All New Alexei SayleAlexei David Sayle is a British comedian, actor and Communist. He was born in Anfield, Liverpool, England on August 7, 1952. He was a central part of the alternative comedy circuit in the early Eighties. Overview He has starred in many TV series and films Show, and And the Beat Goes On. In 2000, she made her third appearance in a production of The Railway Children, this time playing the role of the mother. Since 2002, Agutter has been featured in the British television series SpooksSpooks is a British television drama series, produced by the independent production company Kudos for the BBC One network. The title derives from a popular slang term for spies, as the series follows the work of a group of MI5 agents. The programme was cr.

Agutter is married to Johan Tham, a SwedishThe Kingdom of Sweden Konungariket Sverige in Swedish) is a Nordic country in Scandinavia, in Northern Europe. It is bordered by Norway on the west, Finland on the northeast, the Skagerrak and the Kattegat on the southwest, and the Baltic Sea and the Gulf hotelier. The couple have one son, Jonathan. The family lives in CornwallCornwall ( Cornish: Kernow is the part of Great Britain's south-west peninsula that is west of the River Tamar. It is generally regarded as a county of, and a part of England, although advocates of Cornish independence regard it as a separate nation, and, UKThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a state in Western Europe, usually known simply as the United Kingdom the UK Britain or less accurately as Great Britain . The UK was formed by a series of Acts of Union which united the formerly.

Other Film and Television Appearances

• The Railway Children ( 1970)
• WalkaboutAlternate meanings: Walkabout (film), Walkabout (Babylon 5 episode) Walkabout is an Australian English word originally referring to the belief of non-indigenous Australians that Aborigines were prone to "go walkabout" a pidgin (or perhaps quasi-pidgin) ex ( 1971)
• Shelley (BBC, 1972)
• Logan's Run ( 1976)
• Othello (1981)
• An American Werewolf in London ( 1981)
• Love's Labour's Lost (BBC, 1985)

Awards

• 1978 - BAFTA (Best Supporting Actress) for Equus.
• 1972 - Emmy (Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in Drama) for The Snow Goose .

External links

• IMDb: Jenny Agutter