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Jennifer Croxton (born 1944 in Cambridge) is a British actress.

Career

Croxton guest-starred as Lady Diana Forbes-Blakeney opposite Patrick Macnee in the 1969 episode of The Avengers, "Killers",[1][2] a role which remains one of her most well-known.[3][4] She appeared in the film, Our Miss Fred (1972), opposite Danny La Rue, and other television credits include It's Awfully Bad for Your Eyes, Darling,[5][6] Anne of Avonlea, and The Lady and the Highwayman. She played Plautia Urgulanilla in I, Claudius,[7] and has appeared in The Cleopatras, The Agatha Christie Hour and The Stanley Baxter Show.[8]

In 1993 Croxton portrayed Wallis Simpson in Paul Webb's play, A Dangerous Woman, at the Jermyn Street Theatre, London.[9]

She is a member of the BAFTA academy.[10]

References

  1. ^ "The Avengers Forever: Killer". theavengers.tv.
  2. ^ "One-day Avenger". Daily Mirror. No. 20213. 19 December 1968. p. 2. Retrieved 29 April 2020 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ^ Rodney Marshal (ed.), Anticlockwise (2014, Out There Productions), pg. 242, 243, 247, 248, 343.
  4. ^ Michael Scott Philips, Quite Quite Fantastic! The Avengers for Modern Viewers (2018, GR|OWL BOOKS), pg. 313, 314, 440.
  5. ^ Joanna Lumley (2011). Absolutely: A Memoir. Orion Publishing Group. ISBN 9780297865001. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
  6. ^ https://www.phill.co.uk/comedy/darling/cast.html British comedy website
  7. ^ https://anothertongue.com/artist/jennifer-croxton, Another Tongue
  8. ^ "I Claudius star gets road ban for driving offence". Shepherds Bush Gazette. 11 August 1983. p. 9. Retrieved 29 April 2020 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  9. ^ Johns, Ian (17 March 2003). "Theatre - A Dangerous Woman". The Times. No. 67712. p. 17.
  10. ^ "Current members of the Academy". www.bafta.org. 26 January 2016. Retrieved 29 April 2020.

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