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Jenny Agutter

July 2022

  • Sheridan Smith and Jenny Agutter in The Railway Children Return.

    The Railway Children Return review – amiable but predictable sequel

  • Beau Gadsdon, Zac Cudby, Austin Haynes and Eden Hamilton in The Railway Children Return.

    The Railway Children Return review – family classic sequel stays on track

June 2022

  • Sally Thomsett and Jenny Agutter

    The Railway Children review – kids’ adventure has lost none of its limpid charm

    Rereleased as a curtain-raiser for a sequel, Jenny Agutter, Bernard Cribbins and co continue to exert their grip over the national imagination

December 2020

  • The Railway Children, 1970.

    From the Guardian archive
    The Railway Children: 'a wonderful piece of family entertainment' – archive, 1970

    17 December 1970 The film is thoroughly old fashioned, nostalgic, and redolent of a world that died long ago (if it ever existed at all that is)

August 2020

  • Jenny Agutter in her south London home in 2015.

    Jenny Agutter: the original railway child still bringing hope to prisoners

    The actress has recorded a reading from the classic film for the Liberty Choir charity, which helps rehabilitate prisoners. Here she tells the choir’s founder why she feels she must help

June 2019

  • Alice Lowe, Bill Nighy and Sam Riley in Sometimes Always Never.

    Sometime Always Never review – a triple-word score of a movie

    Bill Nighy is a Scrabble-obsessed father grieving for a missing son

October 2018

  • Sometimes Always Never film still

    Sometimes Always Never review – Bill Nighy spellbinding in Scrabble drama

    The veteran actor shines as an ageing word wizard searching for his estranged son in Carl Hunter’s kind-hearted debut

January 2018

  • Jenny Agutter

    The Q&A
    Jenny Agutter: ‘What book changed my life? The Railway Children’

    The actor on wanting to be an angel and being mistaken for Mary Whitehouse

August 2016

  • Walkabout 01

    How we made
    How we made Walkabout

    Jenny Agutter: ‘Our motel in the Australian outback had draught-excluders on its doors – to keep the poisonous snakes from getting into bed with you’

December 2015

  • Jenny Agutter

    ‘I lay my clothes out the night before’: how busy people get ready

    What’s the secret of a good morning routine? Jenny Agutter lays the breakfast table before bed, Esther Freud slips on her children’s tracksuit bottoms and Brandon Flowers skips the shower ...

April 2015

  • Tin

    Tin review – sudsy melodrama in a Cornish mining village

  • Jenny Agutter at home in London

    Jenny Agutter: ‘I’m not that young woman people have fantasised about’

January 2015

  • Jenny Agutter

    Call the Midwife star Jenny Agutter: older women back in fashion

    Actor says more roles are being written for older women and ‘you no longer have to be young forever’

December 2014

  • jenny agutter

    Saturday interview
    Jenny Agutter on Call the Midwife: ‘It’s hard playing a nun. You’re asked to believe things that are absurd’

    Decca Aitkenhead: After child stardom and 45 years on screen, Jenny Agutter is now best known as Call the Midwife’s Sister Julienne – but her views on God (and breastfeeding) don’t quite echo her character

August 2014

  • Jenny Agutter

    My family values
    Jenny Agutter: My family values

    The Railway Children actress talks about growing up in Cyprus and how cystic fibrosis has affected her family. Interview by Sarah Ewing

July 2014

  • Walkabout

    Rewatching classic Australian films
    Walkabout rewatched – a wilderness of the mind as much as of the land

    Luke Buckmaster reflects on the hallucinatory New Wave film that first put Indigenous actor David Gulpilil on the map

January 2014

  • Call the Midwife

    Call the Midwife attracts record audience on BBC1

    Miranda Hart drama watched by 9.6 million with new 10-part series The Musketeers pulling in 7.4 million. By Mark Sweney

July 2013

  • THE RAILWAY CHILDREN

    Railway Children film receives first ever complaint – 42 years after release

    Viewer complained to British Board of Film Classification that the film might encourage children to play on railway tracks

May 2013

  • The Railway Children

    How we made
    How we made: The Railway Children

    Actors Jenny Agutter and Sally Thomsett recall bunking off to a Leeds nightclub and being banned from driving during the making of the classic 1970 children's film

April 2013

  • Emma Brockes

    Emma Brockes column
    Call the Midwife: an unexpected PBS hit with another Brit import

    Emma Brockes

    Emma Brockes: Downton Abbey relies on period nostalgia to charm US viewers, but Call the Midwife is closer to Mad Men's unsentimental drama

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