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Jenny Agutter (born December 20, 1952) is an
England|English actress.

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 (film)|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 London (1981). 

In the last decade, Agutter has mainly worked in
television. She has 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 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 Spooks.

Agutter is married to Johan Tham, a Sweden|Swedish
hotelier. The couple have one son, Jonathan. The
family lives in Cornwall, United Kingdom|UK.

==Selected Film and Television==

*The Railway Children (1970)
*Walkabout (film)|Walkabout (1971)
*Shelley (BBC, 1972)
*Logan's Run (1976)
*Equus (1977)
*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==
*
http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/spooks/personnel_ja.sht
ml BBC - Spooks - Jenny Agutter Biography
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