Jennifer Croxton Explained

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]

External links

• • The Avengers website
• Jennifer Croxton's Filmography at the BFI

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Avengers Forever: Killer. theavengers.tv.
2. News: One-day Avenger. 19 December 1968. Daily Mirror. 29 April 2020. 20213. 2. British Newspaper Archive. subscription.
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. Book: Joanna Lumley . Absolutely: A Memoir. Orion Publishing Group. 2011 . 9780297865001. 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. News: I Claudius star gets road ban for driving offence. 11 August 1983. Shepherds Bush Gazette. 29 April 2020. 9. British Newspaper Archive. subscription.
9. News: Johns. Ian. Theatre - A Dangerous Woman. 17 March 2003. The Times. 67712. 17.
10. Web site: Current members of the Academy. 2016-01-26. www.bafta.org. en. 29 April 2020.