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Jennifer Hilary
Frimley Green, Surrey, England, UK
Jennifer Mary Hilary (14 December 1942 – 6 August 2008) was a British actress of stage, film and television. Her first acclaimed stage performance was as "Milly" in Henry James' T…
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Jennifer Mary Hilary (14 December 1942 – 6 August 2008) was a British actress of stage, film and television. Her first acclaimed stage performance was as "Milly" in Henry James' The Wings of the Dove, which marked her debut on the West End. Born at Frimley, Surrey, she trained at RADA, and began her acting career with the Liverpool Playhouse in April 1961, aged 18. Her first role was as Nina in The Seagull. She would go on to play such characters as Lady Teazle (The School for Scandal), Isabel (The Enchanted), Cilla Curtis (Amateur Means Lover) and Cecily Cardew (The Importance of Being Earnest). She went on to act with the Birmingham Repertory Theatre. She debuted across the pond in 1963, performing in Jean Anouilh's The Rehearsal. In 1964, she played "Zoe" in the West End production of James Saunders' A Scent of Flowers. Sir Michael Redgrave included her in the cast of Turgenev's A Month in the Country in 1965. She returned to New York to play the doomed "Sasha" in Chekhov's Ivanov at the Shubert Theatre in 1966. Back in London, she played "Ginny" in the hit 1967 production of Alan Ayckbourn's Relatively Speaking.
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1997
Danielle Steel's Zoya
Movie Tsarina
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1997
Midsomer Murders
TV show Sarah Fitzroy
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1995
Bliss
Movie Tamara Bancroft
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1994
Pie in the Sky
TV show Anne Hopkinson
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1989
Slipstream
Movie Girl's Mother
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1988
Double First
TV show
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1984
The Sun Also Rises
TV show Frances Clyne
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1984
Me & My Girl
TV show Laura Tindle
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1984
The Hello Goodbye Man
TV show Dr Sally Newbolt
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1983
Miss A and Miss M
Movie Miss Martin
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1982
Five Days One Summer
Movie Sarah Meredith
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1982
All for Love
TV show Miss Martin
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1982
Lunch
Movie Geraldine
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1980
The Adventures of Frank: Seeds of Ice
Movie Mrs. Champing
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1980
The Adventures of Frank: Everybody's Fiddling Something
Movie Mrs. Champing
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1980
The Gentle Touch
TV show
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1980
North Sea Hijack
Movie Sarah
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1979
Speed King
Movie Dorothy Campbell
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1979
Tales of the Unexpected
TV show Wendy
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1978
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Movie
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1977
Charades
Movie Davina / Lady Caroline
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1977
The Sunday Drama
TV show Lucy
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1974
Playhouse
TV show Geraldine
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1973
The Man in the Wood
Movie Betty Hardy
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1971
Jason King
TV show
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1971
One Brief Summer
Movie
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1970
Play for Today
TV show Davina / Lady Caroline
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1969
Happy Ever After
TV show
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1969
Department S
TV show Comtesse de Noverre
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1969
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
TV show Sandra
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1968
Journey to the Unknown
TV show Anne Prentiss
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1968
Journey Into Darkness
Movie Anne Prentiss
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1967
ITV Playhouse
TV show
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1966
The Idol
Movie Sarah
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1965
The Heroes of Telemark
Movie Sigrid
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1965
Out of the Unknown
TV show Penny Bowers
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1964
The Wednesday Play
TV show Gilly Atkinson
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1964
Becket
Movie Peasant's Daughter
