Jenny Agutter

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.
Husband is Swedish and a hotelier. They met at an arts fair.
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.
Has acted in three different versions of "The Railway Children": The Railway Children (1968), Quella fantastica pazza ferrovia (1970) and The Railway Children (2000), and in a sequel to the second film I bambini del treno (2022). In the first second and fourth film she plays the same character, Bobbie, in the last of these as an adult instead of a child. In the third film, she plays this character's mother.
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.

[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.
[being nude in films] It's not an issue with me. The exploitation of it is. You can end up naked in places you don't want to. That shocks me. Doing it doesn't shock me.
In the film Walkabout, there was a sequence in which I swam naked in a natural rock pool in the Outback. It was a scene about innocence. It's sad that years later shots were put on the Internet ignoring the context and exploiting the nudity. It never occurred to me at the time it would be possible to do this.

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