Jenny Agutter:
A Charmed Career
Jenny Agutter has lived many lives, and all of them on the movie screen. One of the most talented child actresses British cinema has ever produced, she has transformed on screen over more than 40 years from child to teen to ingénue to sex symbol to leading lady and, now, distinguished character actress.
Asked to consider her remarkable five decades in film, Jenny Agutter said: "I have been enormously lucky with who I've worked with. It's been a charmed career, really."
We are delighted to welcome her to BFF2005.
Special Event...
Screentalk: Jenny Agutter In Conversation&
The Railway Children (Feature)
Dir. Lionel Jeffries, GB, 1970, 109 mins (U)
Films showing...
The Railway Children
(TV Programme)
Dir. Julia Smith, BBC, 1968, 25 mins (no cert) b/w
Star!
Dir. Robert Wise, USA, 1968 174 mins (U)
Walkabout
Dir. Nicolas Roeg, GB, 1970
Equus
Dir. Sidney Lumet, USA, 1976, 132 mins (15)
Dir. John Sturges, USA, 1976, 135 mins (15)
Logan's Run
Dir. Michael Anderson, USA, 1976, 120mins (PG)
Sweet William
Dir. Claude Whatham, GB, 1980, 92 mins
An American Werewolf In London
Dir. John Landis, USA/GB, 1981, 97 mins (18)
Number One, Longing. Number Two, Regret
Dir. Neil Wassell, GB, 2004, 98 mins (adv 15)
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At Dawning
Dir. Martin Jones, GB, 2001, 12 mins (adv 12A)
More about Jenny Agutter
Born: December 20th, 1952, Taunton, Somerset, England
Jenny Agutter has always been a player of characters – a jobbing actress whose star rose steadily until marriage and motherhood prompted a voluntary change of role. Between her film debut in East of Sudan in 1964 and her return from Hollywood exile in 1990 she was one of the busiest actors on both sides of the Atlantic.
Hers has been an awfully big cinema adventure. There have been period romps, black comedies and horror thrillers, wartime dramas, romantic tearjerkers and the odd epic along the way. In the theatre she worked with John Gielgud and Peter Hall at the National and, during the early 1980s, with the Royal Shakespeare Company. And on television she has cropped up in everything from Magnum PI and The Equalizer to Heartbeat and Red Dwarf. In 2000 she played her most famous character’s mother in another adaptation of The Railway Children, and is now planning a move into production with a film biopic of the book’s author, Edith Nesbit.
Visit the BBC website to find out more about Jenny Agutter.
Selected filmography
1964 East of Sudan
1966 Ballerina (TV)
1966 A Man Could Get Killed
1968 The Railway Children (TV series)
1968 Gates of Paradise
1968 Star!
1969 I Start Counting
1970 The Railway Children
1971 Walkabout
1971 The Snow Goose (TV)
1971 The Cherry Orchard (TV)
1971 The Wild Duck (TV)
1972 Omnibus: Shelley (TV)
1976 Logan’s Run
1976 The Eagle Has Landed
1977 The Man in the Iron Mask (TV)
1977 Equus
1977 The Six Million Dollar Man: Deadly Countdown (TV)
1978 Dominique
1978 China 9, Liberty 37 (aka Clayton and Catherine)
1979 The Riddle of the Sands
1980 Sweet William
1980 Late Flowering Love (TV)
1981 Amy
1981 An American Werewolf in London
1981 The Survivor
1981 Othello (TV)
1982 Miss Right
1984 Secret Places
1985 Magnum P.I.: Little Games (TV)
1985 Love’s Labour’s Lost (TV)
1987 Amazon Women on the Moon
1987 Dark Tower
1989 King of the Wind
1989 The Equalizer: The Visitation (TV)
1989 Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less (TV)
1990 Darkman (uncredited cameo)
1992 Freddie as F.R.0.7. (voice only)
1994 Romeo and Juliet (TV)
1994 Heartbeat: Fair Game (TV)
1995 Blue Juice
1996 And the Beat Goes On (TV)
1996 September (TV)
2000 The Railway Children (TV)
2001 The Parole Officer
2001 At Dawning (short)
2002 Spooks (TV series)
2004 Number One, Longing. Number Two, Regret.
2004 The Alan Clark Diaries (TV)
2004 The Lonely Troll