From English rose to midwife matriarch, Jenny Agutter has graced our screens since her early teens, appearing in more than 40 films and 50 TV dramas over five decades. Some of her most well-known works have shaped our collective consciousness about our countryside, whether the idyllic Edwardian pastoral setting of The Railway Children (1970), the lonely Essex marshes in The Snow Goose (1971) or the dark terror of the moors in An American Werewolf in London (1981).
Much of the work Agutter appears in seems to celebrate the outdoors – is that a deliberate choice on her part? “It just happened that way,” she answers frankly. “An extraordinary privilege of my life is enjoying the places that I’ve been to. (1979) was on the sea, (1971) – travelling across Australia was extraordinary. But that’s just a matter of luck,
