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.

Most Known For

Midsomer Murders

as Sarah Fitzroy

Play for Today

as Davina / Lady Caroline

Tales of the Unexpected

as Wendy

Playhouse

as Geraldine

Pie in the Sky

as Anne Hopkinson

Out of the Unknown

as Penny Bowers

North Sea Hijack

as Sarah

The Gentle Touch

Jason King

Department S

as Comtesse de Noverre

Speed King

as Dorothy Campbell

The Heroes of Telemark

as Sigrid

Becket

as Peasant's Daughter

The Sun Also Rises

as Frances Clyne

Five Days One Summer

as Sarah Meredith

Slipstream

as Girl's Mother

Danielle Steel's Zoya

as Tsarina

Journey Into Darkness

as Anne Prentiss

Double First

Lunch

as Geraldine