Jenny Agutter born December 20, 1952 is an UK actress. Jennifer Ann Agutter was born in Taunton, Somerset. Father a British Army officer, girl travelled the world as a child. Her 1-st movie appearance was in East of Sudan (1964). Celeb 1-st came to the attention of TV audiences as Roberta in a BBC dramatisation of The Railway Children, and move on to play the same part in Lionel Jeffries' 1970 movie of the book. Her quality of ingenuousness led on to a more serious role in I Start Counting (1969).
Agutter start a transition to adult roles in Walkabout (1971), acting a teenaged high school girl who was lost in the Australian outback with her younger brother. The movies theme of the transition from childhood to adulthood mirrored Agutter's life and career at the time. Agutter appeared in a number of movies 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 TV. Celeb has appeared in the TV series TECX, The All New Alexei Sayle Show, and And the Beat Goes On. In 2000, girl made her 3-rd appearance in a production of The Railway Children, this time acting the role of the mother. Since 2002, Agutter has been featured in the British TV series Spooks. Agutter is married to Johan Tham, a Swedish hotelier. The couple have 1 son, Jonathan. The family lives in Cornwall, UK.