Jenny Agutter: Age in Walkabout, Films and Current Life

Date of birth: 20 December 1952 · Birthplace: Taunton, Somerset, England · Logan’s Run role: Jessica (1976 film) · Early lead film: The Railway Children (1970), role of Bobbie

Nine rows, one pattern: the identity facts are sourced cleanly, while the two questions readers care about most, age on set and current location, have the thinnest record.

How old was Jenny Agutter in Walkabout?

Her age on set can be worked out from sourced dates rather than guessed. Her date of birth and the 1969 start of filming, both drawn from Wikipedia (Wikipedia film entry (open encyclopedia)), place her at 16 when shooting began.

Date of birth and age calculation

• Born 20 December 1952 (Wikipedia (open encyclopedia)), so she turned 16 on 20 December 1968 and 17 on 20 December 1969.
• Agutter has said she was 16 when she started filming, including the swimming scene (IMDb trivia (film database)).
• The Wikipedia film entry gives August 1969 for the start of filming in Sydney, while the research notes also record July 1969 from the same entry. Both dates fall before her 17th birthday.
• This is a calculation from sourced dates, not a sourced age statement.

Walkabout release year and filming location

• Released internationally by 20th Century Fox, and released in the United States in July 1971 and in Australia in December 1971 (Wikipedia film entry (open encyclopedia)).
• Filming began in Sydney and later moved to Alice Springs (Wikipedia film entry (open encyclopedia)).
• The British Board of Film Classification assessed her as seventeen at the time of filming, although she was sixteen when filming began in July 1969 (Wikipedia film entry (open encyclopedia)).
• The Protection of Children Act 1978 covered indecent images of under-16s. The Sexual Offences Act 2003 raised the threshold to eighteen, and the BBFC reconsidered the film in 2011 and passed it uncut (Wikipedia film entry (open encyclopedia)).

The implication: the age question has a sourced answer, which the top search results in the research do not give. The gap that remains is the BBFC’s own decision record, which the notes reach only through Wikipedia.

Which movies has Jenny Agutter appeared in?

Three early roles carry most of her reputation, and each has its own sourcing trail (Wikipedia (open encyclopedia)).

What role did Jenny Agutter play in Logan’s Run?

• She played Jessica in Logan’s Run (1976) (Wikipedia (open encyclopedia)).
• The notes confirm the casting from a Tier 2 source but do not describe the character beyond the name.

What were Jenny Agutter’s early roles?

• East of Sudan (1964) was her screen debut, though the age at which she made it is reported differently: 12 by Fandango biography (film ticketing site) and 11 by Screendollars profile (celebrity database).
• The Railway Children (1970), in which she played Bobbie and which was directed by Lionel Jeffries (Sydney Morning Herald (Australian newspaper)). Its coverage places it a year before Walkabout’s release.
• Walkabout (1971), a major early film credit directed by Nicolas Roeg (Wikipedia film entry (open encyclopedia)).

What is Jenny Agutter’s notable film career?

• Relocated to the United States in 1974 to pursue a Hollywood career (Wikipedia (open encyclopedia)).
• Reprised Bobbie in The Railway Children Return (2022), 52 years after the 1970 film (Wikipedia (open encyclopedia)).
• Has played Sister Julienne in the BBC drama Call the Midwife since 2012 (Wikipedia (open encyclopedia)).

The pattern: the key film credits trace to sources with editorial standards, while the complete catalogue still depends on listings that do not show their dating.

Where is Jenny Agutter today?

The research notes do not confirm where she lives or her current living status. The newest dated material is a 2022 interview with the Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney Morning Herald (Australian newspaper)), in which she was 69 at the time.

Is Jenny Agutter still alive?

• No dated official or established source on her living status appears in the research notes.
• The most recent dated items are from 2022, including The Railway Children Return (Wikipedia (open encyclopedia)).
• This article therefore does not state her current status.

The implication: readers looking for her current location will find no sourced answer here, and that gap is the honest state of the record.

Who was Jenny Agutter’s first husband?

The research notes do not name a first husband. They do report a 1990 marriage to Swedish hotelier Johan Tham, according to Examiner Live (UK regional news), but they say nothing about whether it was her first marriage.

Is Jenny Agutter’s son a doctor?

• The research notes contain no sourced statement about a son or his profession.
• Any claim about family members needs a dated official or established citation before publication.
• Until then, this article treats the claim as unverified.

The trade-off: naming a spouse adds context, but a reader who repeats it without checking is repeating a single report.

What is Jenny Agutter’s net worth?

No verified net worth figure appears in the research notes, so this article gives no number. Any figure that circulates should be treated as an estimate until a named source and date are attached.

Sources for net worth estimates

• The notes contain no net worth estimate backed by a Tier 1 or Tier 2 citation.
• The biographical profiles in the notes are cited for career and award details, not finances, including Screendollars profile (celebrity database).
• Any estimate should name its publisher and date, so readers can judge how current it is.

What this means: a reader who wants a number has to find a dated, named estimate first, and none exists in the record gathered here.

Confirmed facts and what’s unclear

What this means: the confirmed column rests on encyclopedia and film-database entries, while the longer open column reflects that the personal and money questions have the thinnest documentation.

In her own words

“Nic wanted the scene in which I swam naked to be straightforward. He wanted me to be uninhibited – which I wasn’t. I was a very inhibited young woman.”

Jenny Agutter, on the Walkabout shoot, quoted in the Wikipedia film entry (open encyclopedia)

In a 2022 interview with the Sydney Morning Herald (Australian newspaper), Agutter said she can watch Walkabout again and again and is glad to have been part of it, but she now reads its story as a very dark one about humanity.

Her IMDb biography records her view that it is sad that shots from the film were later posted online, ignoring the context and exploiting the nudity (IMDb biography (film database)).

The sourced core of her career is solid enough to build on, while the personal and financial questions need dated official or established records before they can be answered. The next checks that matter are the BFI Screenonline (UK film archive) career record and the BBC Press Office (broadcaster press pack). For editors and readers who search her age on set, the choice is clear: cite the 1969 filming window and Agutter’s own statement, or repeat an 18-year-old figure that the dates contradict.

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