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Jennifer Croxton (30 November 1944 – 15 November 2024) was a British actress.
Life and career
editJennifer Croxton was born in Cambridge on 30 November 1944.
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 2003 Croxton portrayed Wallis Simpson in Paul Ibell's play, A Dangerous Woman, at the Jermyn Street Theatre, London.[9]
Croxton was a member of the BAFTA academy.[10] She died on 15 November 2024, at the age of 80.[11][12]
References
edit- ^ "The Avengers Forever: Killer". theavengers.tv.
- ^ "One-day Avenger". Daily Mirror. No. 20213. 19 December 1968. p. 2. Retrieved 29 April 2020 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ Rodney Marshal (ed.), Anticlockwise (2014, Out There Productions), pg. 242, 243, 247, 248, 343.
- ^ Michael Scott Philips, Quite Quite Fantastic! The Avengers for Modern Viewers (2018, GR|OWL BOOKS), pg. 313, 314, 440.
- ^ Joanna Lumley (2011). Absolutely: A Memoir. Orion Publishing Group. ISBN 9780297865001. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
- ^ https://www.phill.co.uk/comedy/darling/cast.html British comedy website
- ^ https://anothertongue.com/artist/jennifer-croxton, Another Tongue
- ^ "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.
- ^ Johns, Ian (17 March 2003). "Theatre - A Dangerous Woman". The Times. No. 67712. p. 17.
- ^ "Current members of the Academy". www.bafta.org. 26 January 2016. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
- ^ "Sorry to read that Avengers 'girl' Jennifer Croxton passed away earlier this month". Rodney Marshall on X. Retrieved 17 December 2024.
- ^ "It is with great sadness in which I say I cannot believe once again we have lost two Avenger girl's within a very short time of one another, Jennifer Croxton who played Lady Diana Forbes Blakeney in the episode "Killer" has passed away on the 15th November 2024". Ian Davey on Facebook. 17 December 2024. Retrieved 17 December 2024.
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