Biography
Jennifer Ann "Jenny" Agutter (born 20 December 1952) is an English film and television actress. She began her career as a child actress in the mid 1960s, starring in the BBC television series The Railway Children and the film adaptation of the same book, before moving on to adult roles and relocating to Hollywood. She played Alex Price in An American Werewolf in London, Jessica 6 in Logan's Run, Joanne Simpson in Child's Play 2 and Jill Mason in Equus. Since the 1990s, she has worked in sound r...
Known For
Complete Filmography
The Railway Children Return
2022
as Roberta 'Bobbie' Waterbury
Follow a group of children who are evacuated to a Yorkshire village during the Second World War, where they encounter a young soldier who, like them, ...
Sometimes Always Never
2019
as Margaret
Alan is a stylish tailor with moves as sharp as his suits. He has spent years searching tirelessly for his missing son Michael who stormed out over a ...
Queen of the Desert
2015
as Florance Bell
A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire at the da...
Nicolas Roeg: It's About Time...
2015
as Self
The first major profile of the great British film director Nicolas Roeg, examining his very personal vision of cinema as in such films as Don't Look N...
Tin
2015
as Marjorie Dawson
Cornwall 1895: a blatant swindle by the local bank threatens the life of a remote mining village. The fate of its whole community hangs on the courage...
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
2014
as Councilwoman Hawley
After the cataclysmic events in New York with The Avengers, Steve Rogers, aka Captain America is living quietly in Washington, D.C. and trying to adju...
The Mapmaker
2012
as Isabel
A short UK drama following an ageing couple who return to the seaside where they were happy 50 years earlier. Now their lives have changed and they fa...
Outside Bet
2012
as Shirley Baxter
A group of print workers in 1980s London club together to buy a race horse.
The Avengers
2012
as World Security Council
When an unexpected enemy emerges and threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I...
Golden Brown
2011
as Sarah
Golden Brown is set in England, in Stunning 1960's Cornwall and 1970's Essex. David, a young boy of mixed race spends his days beach-combing for treas...
Burke & Hare
2010
as Lucy
Two 19th-century opportunists become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable business supplying cadavers to an anatomist.
Glorious 39
2009
as Maud
A mysterious tale set around a traditional British family on the eve of World War Two. Oblivious to the looming shadow of World War II, the wealthy Ke...
Beware the Moon: Remembering 'An American Werewolf in London'
2009
as Self
Host Paul Davis takes a trip through some of the iconic backdrops of John Landis' 1981 werewolf classic An American Werewolf In London. The original c...
Act of God
2009
as Catherine Cisco
When a heart surgeon chooses to save one female patient's life over another, her boyfriend looks for revenge.
Interview with Jenny Agutter
2008
as Interviewee
Interview with actress Jenny Agutter concerning her performance in Nicolas Roeg's 1971 film WALKABOUT.
The Magic Door
2007
as The Black Witch
A magic Troll aims to defeat the Black Witch and find the magic door that will lead him home with the help of the Elf Flip, and the Boy Liam.
Irina Palm
2007
as Jane
Maggie, a quiet retiring grandmother, finds herself helpless as her grandson’s health deteriorates. When one last chance appears, but money is despera...
Heroes and Villains
2006
as June
Comedy following the exploits of four 20-something London flatmates who devise a wild money making scheme. They cater to clients who suspect the infid...
Working with a Master: John Landis
2006
as Self
Short documentary about John Landis and his horror works.
The Perfect Scary Movie
2005
as Self
A documentary looking at the various conventions and scare techniques of the horror genre.
Number One, Longing. Number Two, Regret
2004
as Kenosha
When John Spears (Paul Conway) is arrested on suspicion of murdering his neighbour, detectives Kenosha (Jenny Agutter) and Frett (Jeremy Bulloch) are ...
At Dawning
2002
as Escaping Woman
At Dawning stars Jenny Agutter as a woman escaping from a one night stand, who encounters a suicidal Yvan Attal in bizarre circumstances. A story of e...
The Parole Officer
2001
as Victor's Wife
A hapless parole officer is framed for murder by a crooked police chief. To prove his innocence he must entice his former clients away from the law ab...
The Railway Children
2000
as Mother
Set at the turn of the 20th century, The Railway Children tells the story of three Edwardian children and their mother who move to a country house in ...
Rosamunde Pilcher: September
1996
as Isobel
Verena Steynton is holding a party for her daughter. All the aristocratic families of Strathcroy in the Scottish Highlands are attending, with all the...
Blue Juice
1995
as Guinevere / Mary Fenton
JC is the hero of the Cornish surfing community. Staring thirty hard in the face, he fears that the wave that has carried him through a prolonged adol...
Red Dwarf: Smeg Ups
1994
as Professor Mamet
Kryten presents a collection of bloopers from series 4 to 6 of Red Dwarf.
Freddie as F.R.O.7.
1992
as Daffers (voice)
The story about a man-sized frog named Prince Frederic who is turned into a frog by his wicked aunt Messina and hired by British Intelligence to solve...
Child's Play 2
1990
as Joanne Simpson
Chucky is reconstructed by a toy factory to dispel the negative publicity surrounding the doll, and tracks young Andy Barclay to a foster home where t...
Darkman
1990
as Burn Doctor (uncredited)
Dr. Peyton Westlake is on the verge of realizing a major breakthrough in synthetic skin when his laboratory is destroyed by gangsters. Having been bur...
King of the Wind
1990
as Hannah Coke
In 1727, an Arab colt is born with the signs of the wheat ear and the white spot on his heel: evil and good. And thus begins the life of Sham. He is a...
Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less
1990
as Jill Albery
Four victims of a stock swindle meet and plot to get their money back from the crooked financier responsible. Each man, an Oxford professor, a Harley ...
Max's Christmas
1988
Irrepressible Max wants to stay up late on Christmas so he can see Santa Claus.
Dark Tower
1987
as Carolyn Page
A partially under construction office tower is being haunted by a deadly presence which seems to target the building's architect.
The Grand Knockout Tournament
1987
as Self
The Grand Knockout Tournament (colloquially also known as It's a Royal Knockout) was a one-off charity event which was shown on British television on ...
Silas Marner
1985
as Nancy Lammeter
Adaption of George Eliot's novel. When a respectable weaver is wrongfully accused of theft, he becomes a virtual hermit until his own fortune is stole...
Love's Labour's Lost
1985
as Rosaline
A scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only to have a diplomatic visit from a French princess and h...
This Office Life
1984
as Pam
On arrival at British Albion, Mr Gryce felt that his lack of ambition would be completely fulfilled. There was a luncheon voucher scheme, a pension fu...
Secret Places
1984
as Miss Lowrie
Young girls, soon to be women, sharing everything...except their secret places.
Miss Right
1982
as Purse Snatching Victim (uncredited)
After falling for Juliette, the woman of his dreams, a womanizing journalist in Rome must dump his numerous female lovers one by one.
An American Werewolf in London
1981
as Nurse Alex Price
American tourists David and Jack are savaged by an unidentified vicious animal whilst hiking on the Yorkshire Moors. Retiring to the home of a beautif...
The Survivor
1981
as Hobbs
When a 747 crashes shortly after take-off, the sole survivor is the pilot. Virtually unhurt, he and the investigators look for the answers to the disa...
Late Flowering Love
1981
Light dramatisation of four poems by poet laureete Sir John Betjeman, set on location in the south of England
Amy
1981
as Amy Medford
A woman leaves her husband after the death of her child to teach deaf children how to speak. Her own child was deaf and although she has no formal tra...
Be Pretty and Shut Up!
1981
as Self
The film is a series of interviews with various well-known film actresses, including Jenny Agutter, Maria Schneider, and Jane Fonda. The title, which ...
Othello
1981
as Desdemona
Adaptation of Shakespeare's play.
Sweet William
1980
as Ann Walton
William McClusky (Sam Waterston) is a dashing and eccentric Scotsman whose charms rapidly overwhelm the sweet and naive Ann Walton (Jenny Agutter), bu...
Dominique
1980
as Ann Ballard
The wife of a greedy man comes back to haunt him after he scares her to death.
Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure
1979
as Priscilla Mullins
In 1620, the Assembly of the Pilgrims decides to emigrate to the young America because of the persecution they suffer by the English crown. The film t...
The Riddle of the Sands
1979
as Clara Dollmann
In the early years of the 20th Century, two British yachtsmen (Michael York and Simon MacCorkindale) stumble upon a German plot to invade the east coa...
School Play
1979
as Miss Jackson
Life in an English public school - with all the parts played by adults.
China 9, Liberty 37
1978
as Catherine Sebanek
Gunslinger Clayton Drumm is about to be hanged when he is given a chance to live if he agrees to murder Matthew, a miner who has steadfastly refused t...
Equus
1977
as Jill Mason
A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was c...
The Man in the Iron Mask
1977
as Louise de La Vallière
Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with their friend, D'Artagnan. But with the tyrannical K...
The Eagle Has Landed
1976
as Molly Prior
When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious sc...
Logan's Run
1976
as Jessica
In the 23rd century, inhabitants of a domed city freely experience all of life's pleasures — but no one is allowed to live past 30. Citizens can try f...
A Look Into the 23rd Century
1976
as Self
The movie Logan's Run (1976) depicts a supposedly Utopian society in the 23rd century, but one where, as producer Saul David puts it, "there is a worm...
Kiss Me and Die
1974
as Dominie Lanceford
When his brother vanishes without a trace, American Robert Stone goes to his last known location: a remote English village. Robert's investigation lea...
A War of Children
1972
as Maureen Tomelty
A Protestant and a Catholic family's friendship is threatened by the sectarian violence in Belfast. When the daughter of the Catholic family falls in...
Shelley
1972
as Mary Shelley
TV Movie directed by Alan Bridges
The Cherry Orchard
1971
as Anya
Madame Ranevskaya is a spoiled, aging aristocratic lady who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate aft...
The Snow Goose
1971
as Fritha
Based upon Paul Gallico's delicate novel, Patrick Garland's Golden Globe winning The Snow Goose is a stark and hauntingly beautiful drama set amongst ...
Walkabout
1971
as Girl
Under the pretense of having a picnic, a geologist takes his teenage daughter and 6-year-old son into the Australian outback and attempts to shoot the...
The Wild Duck
1971
as Hedvig Ekdal
A devestating, yet bracing look at a family whose proximity to each other belies the decay of their relationships, The Wild Duck is just as modern tod...
The Railway Children
1970
as Roberta 'Bobbie' Waterbury
After the enforced absence of their father, the three Waterbury children move with their mother to Yorkshire, where they find themselves involved in s...
I Start Counting
1970
as Wynne
An English schoolgirl suspects the foster brother she worships is a serial killer.
Star!
1968
as Pamela Roper (uncredited)
Gertrude Lawrence rises to stage stardom at the cost of happiness.
Gates to Paradise
1968
as Maud de Cloyes
In 1212, a Children's Crusade is launched after a young shepherd, Jacques de Cloyes, claims to have had a vision in which it is said that the innocenc...
Ballerina
1966
as Ingrid Jensen
Story of a young ballet student in Denmark who succeeds despite her mother’s objections.
East of Sudan
1964
as Asua
A British soldier escapes from 1880s Khartoum and goes down the Nile river with a fellow soldier, a governess and the daughter of an emir.