Jennifer Croxton

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, Killer,[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. http://theavengers.tv/forever/king-16.htm, Avengers Forever
  2. "One-day Avenger". Daily Mirror (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. 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 (67712). p. 17.
  10. "Current members of the Academy". www.bafta.org. 2016-01-26. Retrieved 29 April 2020.


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