
Jennifer Hilary
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1942-12-14
Day of Death
2008-08-06 (65 years old)
Place of Birth
Frimley Green, Surrey, England, UK
Jennifer Hilary
Biography
Jennifer Mary Hilary (14 December 1942 – 6 August 2008) was a British actress of stage, film and television. Her first acclaimed stage performance was as "Milly" in Henry James' The Wings of the Dove, which marked her debut on the West End. Born at Frimley, Surrey, she trained at RADA, and began her acting career with the Liverpool Playhouse in April 1961, aged 18. Her first role was as Nina in The Seagull. She would go on to play such characters as Lady Teazle (The School for Scandal), Isabel (The Enchanted), Cilla Curtis (Amateur Means Lover) and Cecily Cardew (The Importance of Being Earnest). She went on to act with the Birmingham Repertory Theatre. She debuted across the pond in 1963, performing in Jean Anouilh's The Rehearsal. In 1964, she played "Zoe" in the West End production of James Saunders' A Scent of Flowers. Sir Michael Redgrave included her in the cast of Turgenev's A Month in the Country in 1965. She returned to New York to play the doomed "Sasha" in Chekhov's Ivanov at the Shubert Theatre in 1966. Back in London, she played "Ginny" in the hit 1967 production of Alan Ayckbourn's Relatively Speaking.
Acting
(2003)
(1997)
Danielle Steel's Zoya
as Tsarina
(1995)
Bliss
as Tamara Bancroft
(1989)
Slipstream
as Girl's Mother
(1983)
Miss A and Miss M
as Miss Martin
(1982)
Five Days One Summer
as Sarah Meredith
(1982)
Lunch
as Geraldine
(1980)
North Sea Hijack
as Sarah
(1980)
The Adventures of Frank: Seeds of Ice
as Mrs. Champing
(1980)
The Adventures of Frank: Everybody's Fiddling Something
as Mrs. Champing
(1979)
Speed King
as Dorothy Campbell
(1978)
(1977)
Charades
as Davina / Lady Caroline
(1971)
(1968)
Journey Into Darkness
as Anne Prentiss
(1966)
The Idol
as Sarah
(1965)
The Heroes of Telemark
as Sigrid
(1964)
Becket
as Peasant's Daughter