19 Facts About Jenny Seagrove

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Jennifer Ann Seagrove was born on 4 July 1957 and is an English actress.

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Jenny Seagrove trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and first came to attention playing the lead in a television dramatisation of Barbara Taylor Bradford's A Woman of Substance and the film Local Hero.

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Jenny Seagrove starred in the thriller Appointment with Death and William Friedkin's horror film The Guardian.

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Jenny Seagrove later played Louisa Gould in Another Mother's Son.

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Jenny Seagrove is known for her role as the character of Jo Mills in the long-running BBC drama series Judge John Deed.

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Jenny Seagrove's father ran an import-export firm, which afforded the family a privileged lifestyle.

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When Jenny Seagrove was less than a year old, her mother suffered a stroke, and was unable to care for her.

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Jenny Seagrove attended St Hilary's School in Godalming, Surrey, England from the age of nine.

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Jenny Seagrove developed bulimia in her early adulthood, but recovered: "I could feel myself tearing my stomach, and I kind of pulled out of it," she said.

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Jenny Seagrove played opposite Tom Conti in Present Laughter at the Globe Theatre ; Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker at the Comedy Theatre ; Dead Guilty with Hayley Mills at the Apollo Theatre ; Hurlyburly for the Peter Hall Company when the production transferred from the London Old Vic to the Queen's Theatre ; co-starred with Martin Shaw in the Parisian thriller Vertigo and then with Anthony Andrews.

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Jenny Seagrove starred alongside Rupert Everett in the Academy Award-winning short film A Shocking Accident, directed by James Scott.

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Jenny Seagrove starred in two American-produced television miniseries based upon the first novels of Barbara Taylor Bradford: as Emma Harte in A Woman of Substance and Paula Fairley in Hold the Dream.

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Jenny Seagrove portrayed stage actress Lillie Langtry in Incident at Victoria Falls, a UK made-for-television film.

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Jenny Seagrove was the subject of This Is Your Life in 2003 when she was surprised by Michael Aspel.

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Jenny Seagrove guest starred in episodes of Lewis and Identity.

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Jenny Seagrove is an animal rights activist and an advocate for deregulation of the herbal remedy industry in the United Kingdom, and promotes a vegetarian diet.

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Jenny Seagrove was married to British and Indian actor Madhav Sharma from 1984 to 1988, and then dated film director Michael Winner until 1993.

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The sanctuary was established in 2011 by Jenny Seagrove, who stepped in to support a friend facing financial difficulties.

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Jenny Seagrove was able to secure land on Monkshatch Garden Farm and has since grown the charity which today cares for over 30 horses using a unique system of equine welfare.