
Jenny Agutter
Acting • Born 1952-12-20
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.
Filmography
120 credits
Red Dwarf: Smeg Ups
Movie • 1994
Professor Mamet

An American Werewolf in London
Movie • 1981
Nurse Alex Price

Irina Palm
Movie • 2007
Jane

The Man in the Iron Mask
Movie • 1977
Louise de La Vallière

Logan's Run
Movie • 1976
Jessica

Child's Play 2
Movie • 1990
Joanne Simpson

The Eagle Has Landed
Movie • 1976
Molly Prior

China 9, Liberty 37
Movie • 1978
Catherine Sebanek

The Riddle of the Sands
Movie • 1979
Clara Dollmann

The Railway Children
Movie • 2000
Mother

The Avengers
Movie • 2012
World Security Council

Walkabout
Movie • 1971
Girl

Glorious 39
Movie • 2009
Maud

The Railway Children
Movie • 1970
Roberta 'Bobbie' Waterbury

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

Blue Juice
Movie • 1995
Guinevere / Mary Fenton

Shelley
Movie • 1972
Mary Shelley

Max's Christmas
Movie • 1988

Golden Brown
Movie • 2011
Sarah

The Survivor
Movie • 1981
Hobbs

Silas Marner
Movie • 1985
Nancy Lammeter

Outside Bet
Movie • 2012
Shirley Baxter

Dark Tower
Movie • 1987
Carolyn Page

Freddie As F.R.O.7.
Movie • 1992
Daffers (voice)

The Cherry Orchard
Movie • 1971
Anya

King of the Wind
Movie • 1990
Hannah Coke

Dominique
Movie • 1980
Ann Ballard

Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less
Movie • 1990
Jill Albery

Gates to Paradise
Movie • 1968
Maud de Cloyes

At Dawning
Movie • 2002
Escaping Woman

Kiss Me and Die
Movie • 1974
Dominie Lanceford

Othello
Movie • 1981
Desdemona

Amy
Movie • 1981
Amy Medford

Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Movie • 2014
Councilwoman Hawley

The Snow Goose
Movie • 1971
Fritha

The Wild Duck
Movie • 1971
Hedvig Ekdal

East of Sudan
Movie • 1964
Asua

I Start Counting
Movie • 1970
Wynne

Queen of the Desert
Movie • 2015
Florence Bell

Sweet William
Movie • 1980
Ann Walton

Act of God
Movie • 2009
Catherine Cisco

Equus
Movie • 1977
Jill Mason

A War of Children
Movie • 1972
Maureen Tomelty

Star!
Movie • 1968
Pamela Roper (uncredited)

Be Pretty and Shut Up!
Movie • 1981
Self

This Office Life
Movie • 1984
Pam

Love's Labour's Lost
Movie • 1985
Rosaline

Nicolas Roeg: It's About Time...
Movie • 2015
Self

School Play
Movie • 1979
Miss Jackson

The Mapmaker
Movie • 2012
Isabel

The Parole Officer
Movie • 2001
Victor's Wife

Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure
Movie • 1979
Priscilla Mullins

The Magic Door
Movie • 2007
The Black Witch

Number One, Longing. Number Two, Regret
Movie • 2004
Kenosha

The Grand Knockout Tournament
Movie • 1987
Self

Secret Places
Movie • 1984
Miss Lowrie

Darkman
Movie • 1990
Burn Doctor (uncredited)

Tin
Movie • 2015
Marjorie Dawson

Heroes and Villains
Movie • 2006
June

Sometimes Always Never
Movie • 2019
Margaret

Interview with Jenny Agutter
Movie • 2008
Interviewee

Burke & Hare
Movie • 2010
Lucy

A Look Into the 23rd Century
Movie • 1976
Self

Miss Right
Movie • 1982
Purse Snatching Victim (uncredited)

Ballerina
Movie • 1966
Ingrid Jensen

Working with a Master: John Landis
Movie • 2006
Self

The Perfect Scary Movie
Movie • 2005
Self

Rosamunde Pilcher: September
Movie • 1996
Isobel

The Railway Children Return
Movie • 2022
Roberta 'Bobbie' Waterbury

Late Flowering Love
Movie • 1981

Pagan's Progress
Movie • 1997
Narrator

The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens
Movie • 1970
Young Maria Beadnall/Mary Hogarth/Ellen Ternan

Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Margo Claymore

Magnum, P.I.
TV • 1980
Krista Villeroch

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
TV • 2002
Jemma Sanderson

The Twilight Zone
TV • 1985
Jacinda Carlyle (segment "Voices in the Earth")

Heartbeat
TV • 1992
Susannah Temple-Richards

The Equalizer
TV • 1985
Lauren Demeter

Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Frith

Diamond Geezer
TV • 2005
Vanessa

The Invisibles
TV • 2008
Barbera Riley

Red Dwarf
TV • 1988
Professor Mamet

New Tricks
TV • 2004
Yvonne Barrie

The Alan Clark Diaries
TV • 2004
Jane Clark

Noel's Telly Years
TV • 1996

The Hollywood Greats
TV • 1977

Monday Monday
TV • 2009
Jenny

Agatha Christie's Poirot
TV • 1989
Adela Marchmont

And the Beat Goes On
TV • 1996
Connie Fairbrother Spencer

TECX
TV • 1990
Kate Milverton

Thriller
TV • 1973
Dominie Lanceford

Call the Midwife
TV • 2012
Sister Julienne

The Golden Age of Steam Railways
TV • 2012
Narrator (Voice)

The All New Alexei Sayle Show
TV • 1994

True Love
TV • 2012
Holly's Mum

The Kumars
TV • 2014
Self

Moving On
TV • 2009
Jean

BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Anya

Spooks
TV • 2002
Tessa Phillips

Shadows
TV • 1975
Sue

Bramwell
TV • 1995
Mrs. Bruce

A Respectable Trade
TV • 1998
Lady Scott

September
TV • 1996
Isobel

Beulah Land
TV • 1980
Lizzie Corlay

The Six Million Dollar Man
TV • 1974
Dr. Leah Russell

Dear John
TV • 1988
Sarah

Dream On
TV • 1990
Ellen

Midsomer Murders
TV • 1997
Isobel Chettham

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
TV • 1992
Hermoine (voice)

The Buccaneers
TV • 1995
Idina Hatton

The Outsiders
TV • 1990
Maria Rogers

Snoops
TV • 1989
Veronica Hughes

The Twilight Zone
TV • 1985
Morgan Le Fay (segment "The Last Defender of Camelot")

Dinah!
TV • 1974
Self

Playhouse
TV • 1974
Miss P. Jackson

BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Hedvig Ekdal

The Ten Commandments
TV • 1971
Bess Clark

The Railway Children
TV • 1968
Roberta Faraday

Film '72
TV • 1971
Self

Harry Hill's Tea Time
TV • 2016
Self