@import url(/styles/default.css); Geeks of a certain age love ... Jenny Agutter Our weekly series celebrating our past desires returns. And, for Martin, Jenny Agutter is someone he's never fallen out of love with... Martin Anderson "An IQ that makes your usual offer of strip-chess a bit of a gamble"
It was a few steps into cult film history for English actress Jenny Agutter, then 24 and best known as the sensible one in The Railway Children Walkabout
was the last gasp of 60s-70s dystopian sci-fi, a patchy but interesting genre that was swept away by Star Wars eighteen months after its release, but for the time it was flashy and glamorous. Michael York had spotted Farrah Fawcett in a theatre production and recommended her for the part of Holly, which finally kick-started her career into . If you like blonde, vacuous and positively suspended by Harmony hairspray, you were catered for.
If, on the other hand, you prefer a velvet and demure voice, mesmerising hazel-green eyes, full lips framed in a delicate and very English face combined with an IQ that makes your usual offer of strip-chess a bit of a gamble, then Jenny was the one for you.
Agutter went on to acclaim (and yet more nude controversy) in the screen version of Equus The Survivor in 1978, she made us wait until 1981 before a memorable (and final) return to genre cinema in | |
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