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==Personal life== At a 1989 arts festival in [[Bath, Somerset]], Agutter met Johan Tham, a Swedish hotelier<ref name="Guardian">{{cite news |title=Jenny Agutter on Call the Midwife: 'It's hard playing a nun. You're asked to believe things that are absurd' {{!}} Call The Midwife |url=https://theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/dec/13/jenny-agutter-interview-call-the-midwife |access-date=2 July 2021 |newspaper=The Guardian}}</ref> who was a director of [[Cliveden House#Cliveden Hotel|Cliveden Hotel]] in Buckinghamshire.<ref>{{cite web |title=Diary of a tireless busybody Jenny Agutter, one of Britain's most consistently successful and thoughtful stars, reveals what it was like to play Alan Clark's wife in the eponymous Diaries series |url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12519738.diary-of-a-tireless-busybody-jenny-agutter-one-of-britains-most-consistently-successful-and-thoughtful-stars-reveals-what-it-was-like-to-play-alan-clarks-wife-in-the-eponymous-diaries-series/ |website=HeraldScotland |date=19 January 2004 |access-date=2 July 2021 |language=en}}</ref> They married in August 1990,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Powell |first1=Rosalind |title=Relative Values: the actress Jenny Agutter and her niece Georgina, a florist |url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-radio/article/relative-values-the-actress-jenny-agutter-and-her-niece-georgina-a-florist-99vm2x9qf |newspaper=[[The Times]] |access-date=2 July 2021 |language=en}}</ref> and their son Jonathan<ref name=":0" /> was born on 25 December 1990.<ref name=Guardian /> Agutter lives in London, but has a keen interest in [[Cornwall]]<ref>{{cite magazine |title=JENNY AGUTTER'S CORNWALL LIFE |url=https://www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/homes-and-gardens/places-to-live/jenny-agutter-s-cornwall-life-6952240 |magazine=Great British Life |access-date=2 July 2021 |language=en-UK |date=16 May 2014}}</ref> and once owned a second home there on the [[Mawgan-in-Meneage#Trelowarren|Trelowarren Estate]], in one of the parishes on [[The Lizard|the Lizard peninsula]].<ref>{{cite magazine |title=SISTER TREASURE: JENNY AGUTTER |url=https://www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/people/sister-treasure-jenny-agutter-7001178 |magazine=Great British Life |access-date=2 July 2021 |date=6 February 2017}}</ref> [[File:Jenny Agutter 2022 (cropped-J1).jpg|thumb|upright|Agutter in 2022]] She was appointed an [[Officer of the Order of the British Empire]] (OBE) in the [[2012 Birthday Honours]], for her charitable services.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=60173 |supp=y|page=8|date=16 June 2012}}</ref> In August 2014, Agutter was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to ''The Guardian'' expressing their hope that Scotland would vote to remain part of the United Kingdom in September 2014's [[2014 Scottish independence referendum|referendum on that issue]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/aug/07/celebrities-open-letter-scotland-independence-full-text |title=Celebrities' open letter to Scotland β full text and list of signatories | Politics |newspaper=The Guardian|date=7 August 2014 |access-date=26 August 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140817131736/http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/aug/07/celebrities-open-letter-scotland-independence-full-text |archive-date=17 August 2014 }}</ref> Agutter has been attached to several causes throughout her career. She has been involved in raising awareness of the illness cystic fibrosis, which she believes was responsible for the deaths of two of her siblings. Her niece has the disease. At Agutter's suggestion, an episode of ''Call the Midwife'' focused on cystic fibrosis.{{citation needed|date=April 2024}} She has also worked in support of charities, in particular the [[Cystic Fibrosis Trust]], of which she is a patron (she is also a carrier of the genetic mutation).<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cysticfibrosis.org.uk/get-involved/donate/65-roses/65-roses-scotland |title=Sixty Five Roses Club β Scotland |publisher=Cystic Fibrosis trust |access-date=25 May 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170312104145/https://www.cysticfibrosis.org.uk/get-involved/donate/65-roses/65-roses-scotland |archive-date=12 March 2017 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Jenny Agutter: 'Cystic fibrosis is in my family' |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10401135 |access-date=25 May 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140913123001/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10401135 |archive-date=13 September 2014 |publisher=BBC News |date=25 June 2010 |last1=Bowdler |first1=Neil }}</ref>
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