Jenny Agutter Net Worth

Jenny Agutter's Quotes

• [on living and working in Los Angeles] Los Angeles is like a desert. The only thing that exists is the work you do. You have that sense of living a precarious existence.
• To make films is as boring as watching paint dry. You usually have to do tiny bits here and there. You go off waiting for lighting, you come back - the energy dies. You hope you can find someone who can keep it going.
• [on an older nun who looked after Agutter's ill mother] I once asked her how she coped with difficulties and she looked at me very quizzically and said: "You just get on with it." Difficult times were not something that got in the way, they were simply something that happened. Sometimes there was happiness, sometimes there was sadness and you dealt with whatever you had at that time. I think Sister Julienne and the nuns at Nonnatus would have felt something similar to that.

Interesting Facts about Jenny Agutter

1. Has acted in three different versions of "The Railway Children": The Railway Children (1968), The Railway Children (1970), Masterpiece Theatre: The Railway Children (2000)).
2. Husband is Swedish and a hotelier. They met at an arts fair.
3. She once spent a night sleeping rough in London to highlight the plight of the homeless.
4. In the late 1980s, along with fellow Brit performers Judy Geeson, Ian McKellen, Timothy Dalton and Olivia Hussey, she volunteered teaching Shakespeare to children at a school in Watts, Los Angeles.
5. Gave birth to her first child at age 38, a son Jonathan Tham on December 25, 1990. Child's father is her husband, Johan Tham.
6. She was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2012 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her charitable services.
7. London, England: Actress [June 2012]
8. Daughter of Derek (1927-2018) and Catherine (née Lynam) Agutter (1928-2005).
9. Maternal granddaughter of John (1896-1939) and Sarah (née Hackett) Lynam (1897-1967).
10. Paternal granddaughter of Frank (1897-1974) and Hilda (née Jordan) Agutter (1890-1970).
11. Paternal great granddaughter of Edwin (1866-1919) and May (née Green) Agutter (1868-1951).
12. Paternal great great granddaughter of William (1844-1907) and Elizabeth (née Savage) Agutter (1836-1906).
13. Paternal great great great granddaughter of Joel (1819-1888) and Elizabeth (née Stokes) Agutter (1816-1886).
14. Auditioned for the role of Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (1968) but the role ultimately went to fellow British actress Olivia Hussey.
15. Bears a resemblance to American actress Annette Bening.
16. 1980 started filming Miss Right which wasn't completed and which she would rather forget.
17. She plays a nun and nurse in Call the Midwife (2012) but this was not the first 'nursing engagement' as she also played a nurse in An American Werewolf in London (1981).