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Jennifer Ann Agutter (born Taunton, Somerset, 20 December 1952) is a BAFTA and Emmy award-winning English actress known for her role as Tessa Phillips in the British TV drama series Spooks (broadcast on American PBS television and released on DVD in the US under the title MI-5). She also played Alex Price in An American Werewolf in London, Jessica 6 in Logan's Run, and Jill Mason in Equus.
[edit] Biography[edit] Early lifeAgutter is the daughter of Catherine "Kit" (née Lynam) and Derek Brodie Agutter, a former British Army officer and entertainment organizer.[1] As a child, she lived in Dhekelia, Cyprus and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She was discovered at Elmhurst Ballet School when a casting agent looked for a young English-speaking girl for a film. She did not get the part, but he recommended her to the producers of East of Sudan (1964). [edit] CareerAgutter came to television audiences as Kirsty in the twice-weekly BBC series, "The Newcomers". Kirsty was the daughter of the new managing director, but Agutter could appear only during school holidays and was listed in credits as "Jennifer". Later she appeared as Roberta in the BBC children's series The Railway Children and played the same part in Lionel Jeffries' 1970 film of the book. Her ingenuousness led to a more serious role in the thriller I Start Counting (1969). She also won an Emmy for her television role as Fritha in the Hallmark Hall of Fame production of The Snow Goose (1971). Agutter continued a transition to adult roles in Walkabout (1971), playing a teenage schoolgirl lost with her younger brother in the Australian outback. She auditioned for the role in 1967 but funding problems delayed filming until 1969. The delay meant Agutter was 16 at the time of filming, and the director took advantage of her new legal status by including nude scenes.[2] Among them was a five-minute skinny-dipping scene,[3] which was cut from the original US release.[4] She said at the 2005 Bradford Film Festival at the National Media Museum that she was shocked by the film's explicitness but is on good terms with director Nicolas Roeg.[5] Agutter moved to Hollywood at 21 and appeared in a number of films over the next decade, including The Eagle Has Landed (1976), Logan's Run (1976), Equus (1977), Sweet William (1980), and An American Werewolf in London (1981). Since 1990, Agutter has brought up her son and her work has been in sound recordings and supporting charities, notably the Cystic Fibrosis Trust, of which she is a patron (she is also a carrier of the disease).[6] She was a guest in series 6 of Red Dwarf, and appeared in the TV series TECX, The All New Alexei Sayle Show, and And The Beat Goes On. In 2000, she made her third appearance in The Railway Children, produced by Carlton TV and this time playing the mother. In 2002, Agutter featured in the BBC television series Spooks and in 2007, she starred in the first episode of the new series of David Jason's ITV television series Diamond Geezer. In 2007, she also guest-starred in the Doctor Who audio drama The Bride of Peladon. Agutter says her enduring popularity comes from having grown up on film, that audiences relate to her characters through their own experiences. She believes the innocence of characters she played in early films combined with the costumes and nudity in later adult roles such as Logan's Run (1976), Equus (1977) and An American Werewolf in London (1981) are "perfect fantasy fodder".[7][8] [edit] Personal lifeAgutter remained single in Los Angeles, and it has been reported she never lived with a man until she was married.[9] In 1989 an arts festival in Bath she met Johan Tham, a Swedish hotelier who was a director of Cliveden Hotel in Buckinghamshire. In 1990, she became pregnant by Tham and they married on 4 August. Their son Jonathan was born on 25 December 1990. They live in Camberwell, London. years Agutter owns a second home on The Lizard, the most southerly point on the English mainland. [edit] Filmography
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