Jennifer Ann Agutter was born December 20, 1952, in Taunton, Somerset, England. Jenny's father, Derek Brodie Agutter, a native of Yorkshire, was an officer in the British Army. Her mother was the former Catherine "Kit" Lyman, originally of St. Helen's in Lancashire. Her parents met in Egypt where Mr. Agutter was involved in Forces Entertainment and her mother was serving in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force. Jenny grew up traveling the world, living in Germany, Singapore, Cyprus, Ceylon and Malaysia, among other places. At age 11 she attended the Elmhurst Ballet School, Camberly, Surrey, UK. While on a return trip to Cyprus in 1964 the family found themselves inadvertantly in the midst of a skirmish between the Greek and Turkish factions. Thankfully, Jenny's father had everyone lie on the floor of their house with the lights off and they fled for safety in the morning, none the worse for wear. That same year came her first film assignment: East of Sudan (1964), directed by Nathan Juran (perhaps best known for directing a number of giant monster flicks in the '50's). The same year came Jenny's first film lead in Ballerina (released in

, for Disney Studios (one of her fondest memories is meeting Walt Disney around this time). Her childhood films in England also included Star! (a.k.a. Those Were Happy Times; 1967), a poorly received big-budget musical biography of Gertrude Lawrence which at the time served to dampen leading lady Julie Andrews' career. 1968 saw her appear in the television version of The Railway Children, based on a novel by E. Nesbitt (Victorian writer Edith Nesbitt wrote under her first initial to disguise that she was a woman) about a family forced to move to the country when the father is wrongly imprisoned. She reprised her role of Roberta in the 1970 film version, directed by character actor Lionel Jeffries (First Men in the Moon, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang!). It remains the film for which she is best remembered by many fans.

1971 saw the release of the somewhat similarly themed Walkabout, directed by Nicolas Roeg (The Man Who Fell to Earth, Performance, etc.). Walkabout had actually been filmed in 1969, and Jenny had been offered her role in it as early as 1966. This surreal, visually stunning film was about a girl and her brother, abandoned on the Australian outback by their father, who survive with the aid of a young aborigine. It is one of the highlights of both Jenny and Roeg's careers. Although she had entered drama school in London at age 17, film schedules played havoc with her studies. Sometime between 1971 and 1973 Jenny moved permanently to Hollywood. One of her first roles in the U.S. was in The Snow Goose (1971) on American television, costarring with Richard Harris. Jenny won a Emmy for this performance, and the film also won a golden globe for best made for t.v. movie. While usually considered a feature film actress, it is interesting to note that she has appeared in nearly as much if not more television over the years.

1976 saw Jenny move past her child star image when she appeared opposite Michael York in the well remembered science fiction film Logan's Run. In retrospect it might seem odd that people living in an enclosed city not far from Washington D.C., even several centuries hence, would wind up with British accents, but Jenny's portrayal of Jessica 6, a girl of 22 in an a society where everyone dies at thirty, had the perfect blend of innocence, sensuality, and pathos. Even today the film has a following, though in terms

o survive with the aid of a young aborigine. It is one of the highlights of both Jenny and Roeg's careers. Although she had entered drama school in London at age 17, film schedules played havoc with her studies. Sometime between 1971 and 1973 Jenny moved permanently to Hollywood. One of her first roles in the U.S. was in The Snow Goose (1971) on American television, costarring with Richard Harris. Jenny won a Emmy for this performance, and the film also won a golden globe for best made for t.v. movie. While usually considered a feature film actress, it is interesting to note that she has appeared in nearly as much if not more television over the years.

1976 saw Jenny move past her child star image when she appeared opposite Michael York in the well remembered science fiction film Logan's Run. In retrospect it might seem odd that people living in an enclosed city not far from Washington D.C., even several centuries hence, would wind up with British accents, but Jenny's portrayal of Jessica 6, a girl of 22 in an a society where everyone dies at thirty, had the perfect blend of innocence, sensuality, and pathos. Even today the film has a following, though in terms of popularity as a science fiction film it was eclipsed by Star Wars the following year. The same year, notably, she also costarred with Richard Chamberlain (and "an all star cast") in a television production of The Man in the Iron Mask. In 1978 Jenny was Jill in the flawed yet interesting film production of British playwright Peter Shaffer's Equus, for which Richard Burton received the last of his many unsuccessful Oscar bids. Throughout this time she also appeared in numerous stage productions (as early as age 20 she was appearing with John Gielgud in a production of Shakespeare's The Tempest). In 1981 her performance opposite American actor William Marshall in Othello was committed to video, one of a number of her Shakespearean performances that is available for home viewing. Other Shakespearean credits over the years include Romeo and Juliet, King Lear and Love's Labor Lost. 1981 saw her co-star with David Naughton in John Landis's An American Werewolf in London (recently sequelized). The performances in that film were overshadowed by the Oscar-winning special effects, but Jenny still gained good reviews in her role as a nurse who falls in love with a lycanthropic young American. After Werewolf her feature film career tapered off a bit, though never entirely. In 1990 she appeared as the mother in Child's Play 2, the sequel to the original "Chucky" horror film.

In 1989 Jenny met Swedish hotelier Johan Tham at an arts festival in Bath, UK. They were married in August of the next year and a son, Jonathan, was born that Christmas. Jenny pulled up stakes from Los Angeles and the family settled in her native southern England; currently making their home in Cornwall. While her film appearances are a bit more sporadic these days (her last feature film appearance was in 1995's Blue Juice), Jenny keeps busy working in television, theatre, radio, and making audio novel recordings (including a recent vocal recording of The Railway Children). Of late she has appeared in three t.v. series in Britain, the crime drama TEXC, The New Alexei Sayle Show (Sayle may be best known to Americans for appearing on the '80's comedy series The Young Ones), and And the Beat Goes On. She also has a continuing role in the Bramwell series of films made for television. 1996 saw her reunited with former costar Michael York as