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Jenny Agutter

(1952-), Actress

Jennifer Ann ('Jenny') Agutter

Sitter in 3 portraits
Agutter came to prominence as a child actress in The Railway Children (television series-1967, film-1970), followed by starring roles in Nicolas Roeg's Walkabout (1971) and The Snow Goose (1971). Aged twenty-one she joined the National Theatre to play Miranda in The Tempest, before moving to Hollywood where films included Logan's Run (1976), An American Werewolf in London (1981) and Equus (1977), for which she won a British Academy Award. As a photographer her work was published in Snap (1983).

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Jenny Agutter, by Lord Snowdon - NPG P1841

Jenny Agutter

by Lord Snowdon
gelatin silver print, 17 June 1976
NPG P1841

Jenny Agutter; Sally Thomsett; Dinah Sheridan; Gary Warren in The Railway Children, by Unknown photographer - NPG x272

Jenny Agutter; Sally Thomsett; Dinah Sheridan; Gary Warren in The Railway Children

by Unknown photographer
bromide print, 1970
NPG x272

Jenny Agutter as Bobbie Waterbury in 'The Railway Children', by Lord Snowdon - NPG x76155

Jenny Agutter as Bobbie Waterbury in 'The Railway Children'

by Lord Snowdon
colour print, 1970
NPG x76155

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