Jenny Agutter

Jennifer Ann Agutter OBE is an English actress. She began her career as a child actress in 1964 and went on to star in The Railway Children, in both the 1968 television adaptation and the 1970 film version. She also starred in the 1971 film Walkabout, before moving to Hollywood in 1974. She is a patron of the Cystic Fibrosis trust.

Agutter was born in Taunton, Somerset, England. She is the daughter of Catherine and Derek Brodie Agutter, a former British Army officer and entertainment organiser. As a child, she lived in Singapore, Dhekelia and Kuala Lumpur . She was discovered at Elmhurst Ballet School, a boarding school she attended aged 816, when a casting agent looked for a young Englishspeaking girl for a film. She did not get the part but he recommended her to the producers of East of Sudan .

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