Editing Jenny Agutter (section)

==Career==
===Television and film===
[[File:Richard Harris and Jenny Agutter (1971).jpg|thumb|right|upright=1|Agutter and [[Richard Harris]] in ''[[The Snow Goose (film)|The Snow Goose]]'' (1971)]]
Agutter became known to television audiences for her role in the twice-weekly BBC series ''[[The Newcomers (TV series)|The Newcomers]]''. (She played Kirsty, the daughter of the new managing director of Eden Brothers, the fictional firm that is at the centre of the series.) Agutter could appear only during school holidays. At this stage of her career, she was listed in credits as “Jennifer”. In 1966, she portrayed a ballet pupil in Disney's film ''Ballerina''. In 1968, she was featured in the lavish big-budget [[20th Century Fox]] film musical ''Star!'' which featured [[Julie Andrews]] as [[Gertrude Lawrence]]; Agutter played Lawrence's neglected daughter Pamela. Later, she played Roberta in a BBC adaptation of ''[[The Railway Children#BBC television series|The Railway Children]]'' (1968) and in [[Lionel Jeffries]]'s [[The Railway Children (1970 film)|1970 film]] of the book. She followed this with a more serious role in the thriller ''[[I Start Counting (film)|I Start Counting]]'' (1969). She also won an Emmy as supporting actress for her television role as Fritha in a British [[The Snow Goose (film)|television adaptation]] of ''The Snow Goose'' (1971).

Agutter then moved into adult roles, beginning with ''[[Walkabout (film)|Walkabout]]'' (1971), in which she played a teenage schoolgirl who is 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 sixteen at the time of filming, which allowed the director to include nude scenes.<ref name="Nowra (2003)">[[Louis Nowra|Nowra, L.]] (2003). ''Walkabout''. Sydney: [[Currency Press]] & Canberra: [[National Film and Sound Archive|ScreenSound Australia, National Screen and Sound Archive]], pp. 17–18; {{ISBN|978-0-86819-700-5}}.</ref> Among them was a five-minute [[skinny-dipping]] scene, which was cut from the original US release.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.creativespirits.info/resources/movies/walkabout.html |title=Creative Spirits |publisher=Creativespirits.info |access-date=19 June 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100819201805/http://www.creativespirits.info/resources/movies/walkabout.html |archive-date=19 August 2010 }}</ref> She said at the 2005 [[Bradford Film Festival]] at the [[National Media Museum]] that she was shocked by the film's explicitness, but remained on good terms with director [[Nicolas Roeg]].<ref name="Earnshaw (2006)">''Jenny Agutter: A Charmed Career'', 2006. Directed by Tony Earnshaw. [[National Media Museum|National Museum of Photography, Film & Television]].</ref>

Agutter moved to Hollywood at twenty-one and appeared in a number of films over the next decade, including ''[[The Eagle Has Landed (film)|The Eagle Has Landed]]'' (1976), ''[[Logan's Run (film)|Logan's Run]]'' (1976), ''[[Equus (film)|Equus]]'' (1977) (for which she won a [[BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role|BAFTA as Best Supporting Actress]]), ''[[An American Werewolf in London]]'' (1981), and an adaptation of the James Herbert novel ''[[The Survivor (1981 film)|The Survivor]]'' (1981). Agutter has commented that the innocence of the characters she played in her early films, combined with the costumes and nudity in later adult roles such as ''Logan's Run'', ''Equus'', and ''An American Werewolf in London'', are "perfect fantasy fodder".<ref name="McLean (2002)">{{cite news | last = McLean | first = G. | title = My life in front of the lens | date = 22 February 2002 | url = https://www.theguardian.com/film/2002/feb/22/artsfeatures2| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170101003853/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2002/feb/22/artsfeatures2 | archive-date = 1 January 2017 | work = [[The Guardian]]| access-date = 21 August 2009 }}</ref><ref name="Crace (1997)">{{cite news | last = Crace | first = J. | title = Interview: Almost forever young | date = 8 December 1997 | url = https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/interview-almost-forever-young-1287588.html| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170101005342/http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/interview-almost-forever-young-1287588.html | archive-date = 1 January 2017 | url-status = live | work = [[The Independent]]| access-date = 21 August 2009 }}</ref>

In 1990, Agutter returned to the UK to concentrate on family life and her focus shifted towards British television. During the 1990s, she was cast in an adaptation of [[Jeffrey Archer]]'s novel ''[[Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less]]'' and as the scandalous Idina Hatton in the BBC miniseries ''[[The Buccaneers]]'', inspired by [[Edith Wharton]]'s unfinished 1938 book, and made guest appearances in television series such as ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' and [[Heartbeat (British TV series)|''Heartbeat'']]. In 2000, she starred in a third adaptation of ''The Railway Children'', produced by [[Carlton TV]], this time playing the mother.<ref>{{cite web|title=Agutter, Jenny (1952–) |url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/564158/ |publisher=British Film Institute |access-date=29 December 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130511024328/http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/564158/ |archive-date=11 May 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Lockyer |first=Daphne |title=The eyes have it |journal=SAGA Magazine |date=May 2008 |page=66 |url=http://saga.inbro.net/seeinsidebrochure/SAGA-Magazine_May-2008/The-features/Interview-with-Jenny-Agutter-...-The-Railway-Children-actress/pages_64-65 |access-date=29 December 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131230232940/http://saga.inbro.net/seeinsidebrochure/SAGA-Magazine_May-2008/The-features/Interview-with-Jenny-Agutter-...-The-Railway-Children-actress/pages_64-65 |archive-date=30 December 2013 }}</ref> Since then Agutter has had recurring roles in several television series including ''[[Spooks (TV series)|Spooks]]'', ''[[The Invisibles (TV series)|The Invisibles]]'', ''[[Monday Monday]]'' and ''[[The Alan Clark Diaries]]''. In 2012 Agutter resumed her Hollywood career, appearing as a member of the World Security Council in the blockbuster film ''[[The Avengers (2012 film)|The Avengers]]''; she reprised her role in ''[[Captain America: The Winter Soldier]]'' (2014). Since 2012, Agutter has played Sister Julienne in the BBC television drama series ''[[Call the Midwife]]''.

===Theatre===
Agutter has appeared in numerous theatre productions since her stage debut in 1970, including stints at the [[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre]] in 1972–73, the title role in a derivation of ''[[Hedda Gabler]]'' at the [[Roundhouse (venue)|Roundhouse]] in 1980 and with the [[Royal Shakespeare Company]] in 1982–83, playing Alice in [[Arden of Faversham]], Regan in [[King Lear]] and Fontanelle in [[Lear (play)|Lear]]. In 1987–88, Agutter played the role of Pat Green in the [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] production of the [[Hugh Whitemore]] play ''[[Breaking the Code]]'', about computer pioneer [[Alan Turing]].<ref name="AgutterBio">[http://www.jennyagutter.net/biography.html Jenny Agutter website: Biography] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120418122249/http://www.jennyagutter.net/biography.html |date=18 April 2012 }}. Retrieved 5 August 2013.</ref>  In 1995 she was in an RSC production of ''[[Love's Labour's Lost]]'' staged in Tokyo.<ref name="AgutterBio" />  She is also a patron of the [[Shakespeare Schools Festival]], a charity that enables school children in the UK to perform Shakespeare in professional theatres.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.shakespeareschools.org/about-us/patrons |title=Shakespeare Schools Foundation Patrons |website=Shakespeare Schools Foundation |publisher=[[Shakespeare Schools Foundation]] |access-date=12 July 2021 |archive-date=11 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171211165434/https://www.shakespeareschools.org/about-us/patrons |url-status=dead }}</ref>

===Audio===
In 2008, she also guest-starred in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[audio drama]] ''[[The Bride of Peladon]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jennyagutter.net/audio.html |title=Jenny Agutter: Recordings and Radio |first=Jenny Agutter & Philip |last=Powell |website=www.jennyagutter.net |access-date=25 May 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160812003154/http://jennyagutter.net/audio.html |archive-date=12 August 2016 }}</ref> and played an outlawed scientist in ''[[The Minister of Chance]]''.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=16 March 2011 |first=Elisabeth |last=Mahoney |title=Radio head: The Minister of Chance |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2011/mar/16/radio-head-minister-of-chance |access-date=3 October 2014 |quote=This sci-fi podcast is a gripping futuristic thriller&nbsp;– let's hope they get to make the final episodes. |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006155733/http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2011/mar/16/radio-head-minister-of-chance |archive-date=6 October 2014 }}</ref> She has appeared as a guest star character ("Fiona Templeton") in the Radio 4 comedy ''[[Ed Reardon's Week]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01f5mmk |title=BBC Radio 4 Extra&nbsp;– Ed Reardon's Week, Series 8, Have a Great Weekend |website=[[BBC]] |date=2012 |access-date=3 October 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140620025034/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01f5mmk |archive-date=20 June 2014 }}</ref>

===Music===
Agutter appears on the 1990 [[Prefab Sprout]] song "Wild Horses", speaking the words "I want to have you".<ref name="sprout">{{cite web |url= https://www.discogs.com/release/397074-Prefab-Sprout-Jordan-The-Comeback |title= Prefab Sprout – Jordan: The Comeback |date= 28 August 1990 |work= discogs.com |access-date= 16 July 2023}}</ref>