Editing Jenny Agutter

{{short description|English actress (born 1952)|bot=PearBOT 5}}
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|honorific_suffix = {{Post-nominals|size=100%|country=GBR|OBE}}
| image        = Jenny Agutter (2).jpg
| caption      = Agutter in 2014
| birthname    = Jennifer Ann Agutter
| birth_date   = {{Birth date and age|1952|12|20|df=y}}
| birth_place  = [[Taunton]], Somerset, England
| death_date   = 
| death_place  = 
| years_active = 1964–present
| spouse       = {{marriage|Johan Tham|1990}}
| children     = 1
| website      = {{URL|jennyagutter.net}}
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'''Jennifer Ann Agutter''' {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|OBE}} (born 20 December 1952) is an English actress. She began her career as a child actress in 1964, appearing in ''[[East of Sudan]]'', ''[[Star! (film)|Star!]]'',  and two<!-- DO NOT CHANGE THIS TO "THREE". THIS PARAGRAPH DOCUMENTS AGUTTER'S EARLY CAREER AND THE THIRD ADAPTATION IS MENTIONED IN THE NEXT PARAGRAPH. --> adaptations of ''[[The Railway Children]]'': the [[The Railway Children#BBC television series|BBC's 1968 television serial]] and the [[The Railway Children (1970 film)|1970 film version]]. In 1971 she also starred in the critically acclaimed film ''[[Walkabout (film)|Walkabout]]'' and the TV film ''[[The Snow Goose (film)|The Snow Goose]]'', for which she won an [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series|Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama]].

She relocated to the United States in 1974 to pursue a Hollywood career and subsequently appeared in [[Logan's Run (film)|''Logan's Run'']] (1976), ''[[Amy (1981 film)|Amy]]'' (1981), ''[[An American Werewolf in London]]'' (1981), and ''[[Child's Play 2]]'' (1990). During the same period, Agutter continued appearing in high-profile British films, such as ''[[The Eagle Has Landed (film)|The Eagle Has Landed]]'' (1976), ''[[Equus (film)|Equus]]'' (1977)—for which she won a [[BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role]]—and ''[[The Riddle of the Sands (film)|The Riddle of the Sands]]'' (1979). In 1981, she co-starred in ''[[The Survivor (1981 film)|The Survivor]]'', an Australian adaptation of the [[James Herbert]] novel by that name, and was nominated for an [[AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role]].

After returning to Britain in the early 1990s to pursue family life, Agutter shifted her focus to television, appearing in the 2000 version of [[The Railway Children (2000 film)|television adaptation of ''The Railway Children'']], this time as the mother, and since 2012 she has had an ongoing role in the BBC's ''[[Call the Midwife]]''. Her film work in recent years includes ''[[The Avengers (2012 film)|The Avengers]]'' (2012) and ''[[Captain America: The Winter Soldier]]'' (2014), and in 2022, Agutter returned to the world of ''The Railway Children'' once more by reprising her role from the 1970 film 52 years later in a sequel, ''[[The Railway Children Return]]''.

Agutter is married, and has  one adult son. She supports several charitable causes, mostly ones related to [[cystic fibrosis]], a condition from which her niece suffers, and for her service to those causes was appointed [[Officer of the Order of the British Empire]] (OBE) in the [[2012 Birthday Honours]].

==Early life==
Agutter was born on 20 December 1952<ref>{{cite web |title=Agutter, Jenny 1952– |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/agutter-jenny-1952 |website=[[Encyclopedia.com]] |publisher=[[Cengage]] |access-date=23 May 2022}}</ref> in [[Taunton]], Somerset, England.<ref>{{cite news |title=TV star Jenny Agutter cuts the ribbon on new homes |url=http://www.somersetcountygazette.co.uk/news/taunton_news/9679149.TV_star_Jenny_Agutter_cuts_the_ribbon_on_new_homes/ |access-date=25 May 2017 |work=Somerset County Gazette |date=1 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180122205221/http://www.somersetcountygazette.co.uk/news/taunton_news/9679149.TV_star_Jenny_Agutter_cuts_the_ribbon_on_new_homes/ |archive-date=22 January 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> She is the daughter of Derek Agutter (an entertainments manager in the British Army) and Catherine, and was raised Roman Catholic.<ref>{{Cite web|work=[[Radio Times]]|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/call-the-midwifes-jenny-agutter-i-do-love-playing-a-nun/2/|title=Call the Midwife's Jenny Agutter: "I do love playing a nun"|date=18 January 2015|url-status=live|archive-date=12 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210412025853/https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/call-the-midwifes-jenny-agutter-i-do-love-playing-a-nun/2/}}</ref> She has Irish ancestry on her mother's side.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/aug/22/jenny-agutter-my-family-values-railway-children|last= Ewing|first=Sarah|title=Jenny Agutter: My family values | newspaper=The Guardian | department=Interviews|date=22 August 2014 }}</ref> As a child, she lived in Singapore,<ref name="isjaneclark">{{cite web |title=Jenny Agutter is Jane Clark |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2003/12_december/15/acd_jenny_agutter.shtml |publisher=BBC |access-date=25 May 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180122205220/http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2003/12_december/15/acd_jenny_agutter.shtml |archive-date=22 January 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Dhekelia Cantonment|Dhekelia]] (Cyprus) and [[Kuala Lumpur]] ([[Federation of Malaya|Malaya]]). She attended [[Elmhurst School for Dance|Elmhurst Ballet School]],<ref name="elm">{{cite web |url= https://www.elmhurstballetschool.org/en/elmhurst-ballet-school-at-100-feature-by-diane-parkes/ |title= Elmhurst Ballet School at 100. Feature by Diane Parkes |date= January 12, 2023 |work= elmhurstballetschool.org |access-date=8 April 2024}}</ref> a boarding school, from ages eight to sixteen.<ref name="isjaneclark"/> She then attended [[Arts Educational School, Tring Park|Arts Educational School]] for a couple of months, before dropping out to star in [[The Railway Children|''The Railway Children'']].<ref>{{Cite web |title=My best teacher - Jenny Agutter {{!}} Tes Magazine |url=https://www.tes.com/magazine/archive/my-best-teacher-jenny-agutter |access-date=2025-04-19 |website=www.tes.com |language=en}}</ref>

==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>

==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&nbsp;– full text and list of signatories &#124; 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&nbsp;— 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>

==Filmography==

===Film===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Roles
! Notes
|-
| 1964
| ''[[East of Sudan]]''
| Asua
|
|-
| 1966
| ''{{sortname|A|Man Could Get Killed}}''
| Linda Frazier
|
|-
|rowspan=2|1968
| ''[[Gates to Paradise (film)|Gates to Paradise]]''
| Maud
|
|-
| ''[[Star! (film)|Star!]]''
| Pamela Roper
|
|-
| 1969
| ''[[I Start Counting (film)|I Start Counting]]''
| Wynne
|
|-
| 1970
| ''{{sortname|The|Railway Children|The Railway Children (1970 film)}}''
| Roberta "Bobbie" Waterbury
|
|-
| 1971
| ''[[Walkabout (film)|Walkabout]]''
| Girl
|
|-
|rowspan=2|1976
| ''[[Logan's Run (film)|Logan's Run]]''
| Jessica 6
|
|-
| ''{{sortname|The|Eagle Has Landed|The Eagle Has Landed (film)}}''
| Molly Prior
|
|-
|rowspan=2|1977
|''[[Equus (film)|Equus]]''
| Jill Mason
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role]]
|-
|''[[The Man in the Iron Mask (1977 film)|The Man in the Iron Mask]]''
| Louise de la Vallière
| 
|-
|rowspan=2|1978
| ''[[China 9, Liberty 37]]''
| Catherine Sebanek
|
|-
|''[[Dominique (1978 film)|Dominique]]''
| Ann Ballard
| a.k.a. ''Dominique Is Dead''
|-
| 1979
| ''{{sortname|The|Riddle of the Sands|The Riddle of the Sands (film)}}''
| Clara
|
|-
|1979
|''[[Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure]]''
|[[Priscilla Alden|Priscilla Mullins]]
|
|-
| 1980
| ''[[Sweet William (film)|Sweet William]]''
| Ann Walton
|
|-
|rowspan=3|1981
| ''[[Amy (1981 film)|Amy]]''
| Amy Medford
|
|-
| ''{{sortname|The|Survivor|The Survivor (1981 film)}}''
| Hobbs
| Nominated – [[Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role]]
|-
| ''{{sortname|An|American Werewolf in London}}''
| Nurse Alex Price
| Nominated – [[Saturn Award for Best Actress]]
|-
| 1984
| ''[[Secret Places (1984 film)|Secret Places]]''
| Miss Lowrie
|
|-
| 1989
| ''[[Dark Tower (1987 film)|Dark Tower]]''
| Carolyn Page
|
|-
|rowspan=3|1990
| ''[[King of the Wind (film)|King of the Wind]]''
| Hannah Coke
|
|-
| ''[[Child's Play 2]]''
| Joanne Simpson
|
|-
| ''[[Darkman]]''
| Burn Doctor
| Uncredited Cameo
|-
| 1992
| ''[[Freddie as F.R.O.7]]''
| Daffers
|
|-
| 1995
| ''[[Blue Juice]]''
| Mary Fenton
|
|-
| 2001
| ''{{sortname|The|Parole Officer}}''
| Victor's Wife
|
|-
| 2002
| ''At Dawning''
| Escaping woman
| Short film
|-
| 2004
| ''Number One Longing, Number Two Regret''
| Kenosha
|
|-
|2006
|''Heroes and Villains''
|June
|
|-
| 2007
| ''[[Irina Palm]]''
| Jane
|
|-
| 2007
| ''[[The Magic Door (2007 film)|The Magic Door]]''
| Black Witch
|
|-
| 2009
| ''[[Glorious 39]]''
| Maud Keyes
|
|-
| 2010
| ''[[Burke and Hare (2010 film)|Burke and Hare]]''
| Lucy
|
|-
|rowspan=2|2011
|''[[Outside Bet]]''
|Shirley Baxter
|
|-
| ''Golden Brown''
| Sarah
|
|-
|2012
|''[[The Avengers (2012 film)|The Avengers]]''
|rowspan=2|[[Pamela Hawley|Councilwoman Hawley]]
|
|-
|2014
|''[[Captain America: The Winter Soldier]]''
|
|-
|rowspan=2|2015
|''[[Queen of the Desert (film)|Queen of the Desert]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ioncinema.com/news/annual-top-films-lists/top-100-most-anticipated-foreign-films-of-2015-werner-herzog-queen-of-the-desert |title=Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #64. Werner Herzog's Queen of the Desert |publisher=ION Cinema |date=6 January 2015 |access-date=23 February 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150224021413/http://www.ioncinema.com/news/annual-top-films-lists/top-100-most-anticipated-foreign-films-of-2015-werner-herzog-queen-of-the-desert |archive-date=24 February 2015 }}</ref>
|[[Florence Bell (writer)|Florence Bell]]
|
|-
|''Tin''
|Marjorie Dawson
|
|-
|2018
|''[[Sometimes Always Never]]''
|Margaret
|
|-
|2022
|''[[The Railway Children Return]]''
|Roberta "Bobbie" Waterbury
|
|}

===Television===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year !! Title !! Role !! Notes
|-
|rowspan=2|1965
| ''{{sortname|The|Newcomers|The Newcomers (TV series)}}''
| Kirsty Kerr
| BBC TV series
|-
| ''Alexander Graham Bell''
| Grace Hubbard
| BBC TV series
|-
| 1966
| ''Ballerina''
| Ingrid Jensen
| Two-part episode of ''[[Disney anthology television series|Disneyland]]''; credited as Jennifer Agutter
|-
| 1967
| ''Boy Meets Girl''
| Joanna
| BBC TV; Series 1, Episode 10: "Long After Summer"
|-
| 1968
| ''{{sortname|The|Railway Children|The Railway Children#BBC television series}}''
| Roberta Faraday
| BBC TV series
|-
| 1970
| ''{{sortname|The|Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens}}''
| Young Maria Beadnall / Mary Hogarth / Ellen Ternan
| TV film
|-
| 1971
| ''{{sortname|The|Snow Goose|dab=film}}''
| Fritha
| [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series|Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama]]
|-
|rowspan=3|1972
| ''{{sortname|The |Wild Duck|nolink=1}}''
| Hedvig
| BBC TV "Play of the Month" broadcast on BBC 1 on 19 March
|-
| ''{{sortname|A| War of Children|nolink=1}}''
| Maureen Tomelty
| American (CBS) TV film set in Northern Ireland during [[The Troubles]]
|-
| ''Shelley''
| Mary Shelley
| BBC TV series
|-
|1974
|''[[Thriller (British TV series)|Thriller]]''
|Dominie Lanceford
|Series 2, Episode 3: "Kiss Me and Die"
|-
| 1975
|''[[Shadows (TV series)|Shadows]]''
| Sue
| Season One, Episode Four: "The Waiting Room"
|-
| 1977
|''{{sortname|The|Six Million Dollar Man}}''
| Dr. Leah Russell
| "Deadly Countdown" Parts 1 & 2
|-
| 1980
| ''[[Beulah Land (miniseries)|Beulah Land]]''
| Lizzie Corlay
| TV mini-series
|-
|rowspan=3|1985
| ''[[Love's Labour's Lost]]''
| Rosaline
| BBC TV film
|-
| ''[[Magnum, P.I.]]''
| Krista Villeroch
| Season 5, Episode 96: "Little Games"
|-
| ''Silas Marner''
| Nancy Lammeter
| BBC TV film
|-
|rowspan=2|1986
| ''[[The Twilight Zone (1985 TV series)|The Twilight Zone]]''
| [[Morgan le Fay]]
| Season 1, Episode 24: "[[The Last Defender of Camelot (The Twilight Zone)|The Last Defender of Camelot]]"
|-
| ''[[Murder, She Wrote]]''
| Margo Claymore
| Season 3, Episode 4: "One White Rose for Death"
|-
|rowspan=2|1987
| ''[[The Grand Knockout Tournament]]''
| Herself
| TV special
|-
| ''[[The Twilight Zone (1985 TV series)|The Twilight Zone]]'' 
| Jacinda
| Season 2, Episode 13: "[[Voices in the Earth]]"<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.jennyagutter.net/television1980s.html | title=Television: 1980s | access-date=24 March 2020 | website=Jenny Agutter's Official Website | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200324205622/https://www.jennyagutter.net/television1980s.html | archive-date=24 March 2020}}</ref>
|-
| 1989
| ''[[The Equalizer (1985 TV series)|The Equalizer]]''
| Lauren Demeter
| Episode: "[[The Equalizer (1985 TV series) season 4#ep75|The Visitation]]"
|-
| 1990
| ''[[Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less]]''
| Jill Albery
| BBC TV mini-series
|-
| 1991
| ''[[The Diamond Brothers: South by South East]]''
| Louise Meyer
| CITV mini-series
|-
| 1992
| ''[[Dream On (TV series)|Dream On]]''
| Ellen
| [[List of Dream On episodes#Season 3 .281992.29|Season 3]], Episode 22: "No Deposit, No Return"
|-
| 1993
| ''[[Red Dwarf]]''
| Professor Mamet
| "[[Psirens]]"
|-
| 1994
| ''[[Heartbeat (British TV series)|Heartbeat]]''
| Susannah Temple-Richards
| [[Heartbeat (series 1–10)#Series 4 (1994)|Series 4, Episode 8]]: [[Heartbeat (series 1–10)#Series 4 (1994)#|"Fair Game"]]
|-
|1994
|''[[Love Hurts]]''
| Jeanette Summers
| [[Love Hurts#Season 3 (1994)|Season 3, Episode 9 Season 3, Episode 10]] 
|-
| 1995
| ''{{sortname|The |Buccaneers}}''
| Idina Hatton
| BBC TV mini-series
|-
| 2000
| ''{{sortname|The|Railway Children|The Railway Children (2000 film)}}''
| Mother
| ITV
|-
| 2002
| ''[[Spooks (TV series)|Spooks]]''
| Tessa Phillips
| BBC TV series
|-
| 2003
| ''[[Britain's Finest]]''
| Presenter
| [[Channel 5 (British TV channel)|Channel 5]] Series 1, Episode 2: "Gardens"
|-
|rowspan=3|2004
| ''{{sortname|The|Alan Clark Diaries}}''
| Jane Clark
| BBC TV series
|-
| ''{{sortname|The |Inspector Lynley Mysteries}}''
| Jemma Sanderson
| BBC TV Series 3, Episode 3
|-
| ''[[Agatha Christie's Marple]]''
| Agnes Crackenthorpe
| Series 1, Episode 3: "4.50 from Paddington"
|-
| 2005
| ''[[New Tricks]]''
| Yvonne Barrie
| BBC TV Series 2, Episode 1
|-
|2006
| ''[[Agatha Christie's Poirot]]''
| Adela Marchmont
| Season 10, Episode 4: "Taken at the Flood"
|-
| 2007
| ''[[Diamond Geezer]]''
| Vanessa
| ITV series
|-
| 2008
| ''{{sortname|The|Invisibles|The Invisibles (TV series)}}''
| Barbara Riley
| BBC TV series
|-
| 2009
| ''[[Monday Monday]]''
| Jenny Mountfield
| ITV1 TV series
|-
| 2010
| ''[[Midsomer Murders]]''
| Isobel Chettham
| ITV1 TV series, Episode 72: "The Creeper" 
|-
|2012–present
|''[[Call the Midwife]]''
|Sister Julienne
| BBC TV series
|-
|}

== Awards and nominations ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Year
!Award
!Category
!Work
!Result
!Ref.
|-
|1972
|[[24th Primetime Emmy Awards]]
|rowspan="1" | [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series|Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series]]
|rowspan="1" |''[[Hallmark Hall of Fame]]'' (Episode: "The Snow Goose")
|{{won}}
|
|-
|1977
|[[31st British Academy Film Awards]]
|[[BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role]]
|''[[Equus (film)|Equus]]'' 
|{{won}}
|
|-
|1981
|[[Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films]]
|[[Saturn Award for Best Actress]]
|''[[An American Werewolf in London]]''
|{{nom}}
|
|-
|1981
|[[1981 Australian Film Institute Awards]]
|[[AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role]]
|''[[The Survivor (1981 film)|The Survivor]]'' 
|{{nom}}
|
|-
|2022
|[[TV Choice|TV Choice Awards ]]
|[[TV Choice|Best Actress]]
|''[[Call the Midwife]]''
|{{won}}
|
|-
|2023
|[[TV Choice|TV Choice Awards ]]
|[[TV Choice|Best Actress]]
|''[[Call the Midwife]]''
|{{nom}}
|
|-
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
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