Megs Jenkins

Megs Jenkins

Birthday: 1917-04-21

Deathday: 1998-10-05

Place of birth: Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK

Also known as: Мегс Дженкинс, Muguette Mary "Megs" Jenkins, Muguette Mary Jenkins

imdb_id: nm0420923

Biography:

An engineer's daughter, she had first planned on becoming a ballerina, using her original Christian name Muguette, but abandoned those plans by the age of 17 when she realized that her physique was more in keeping with her other first name, Megs. She trained in Liverpool at the School of Dancing and Dramatic Art and then joined the Liverpool Repertory Company in 1933 before moving to London to appear at the Player's Theatre four years later. During the 1950's, Megs was busy acting on stage and had considerable critical success in two plays by Emlyn Williams, 'Light of Heart' (1940) and 'The Wind of Heaven' (1945). Against character, she also played the vicious, unstable Alma Winemiller in 'Summer and Smoke' (1951) by Tennessee Williams. In 1956, she was awarded the Clarence Derwent Award as Best Supporting Actress for her role as the stoic wife of a longshoreman harbouring incestuous feelings for his niece in 'A View from the Bridge' by Arthur Miller. The previous year, she had made her Broadway debut in Chekhov's 'A Day by the Sea' as a supportive governess to an alcoholic physician.

Played in movies:

A Cup O' Tea An' A Slice O' Cake - Worzel Gummidge Christmas Special

Score: 10.0

The Innocents

Score: 7.5

The History of Mr. Polly

Score: 7.4

Tiger Bay

Score: 7.3

Bunny Lake Is Missing

Score: 7.2

The Man in the Sky

Score: 7.1

Oliver!

Score: 7.0

Friends and Neighbours

Score: 7.0

Murder Most Foul

Score: 7.0

The Cruel Sea

Score: 6.9

The Story of Esther Costello

Score: 6.9

Painted Boats

Score: 6.9

Jet Storm

Score: 6.9

Ivanhoe

Score: 6.8

Green for Danger

Score: 6.7

White Corridors

Score: 6.6

Saraband for Dead Lovers

Score: 6.6

Indiscreet

Score: 6.6

The Turn of the Screw

Score: 6.5

Poison Pen

Score: 6.5

The Gay Dog

Score: 6.5

Life for Ruth

Score: 6.4

Secret People

Score: 6.3

Rough Shoot

Score: 6.2

Personal Affair

Score: 6.2

Trouble in Store

Score: 6.1

Asylum

Score: 6.0

Macbeth

Score: 6.0

Out of the Clouds

Score: 5.8

The Monkey's Paw

Score: 5.8

29 Acacia Avenue

Score: 5.7

Stranger in the House

Score: 5.6

Millions Like Us

Score: 5.5

The Passionate Stranger

Score: 5.5

The Lamp Still Burns

Score: 5.4

David Copperfield

Score: 5.4

The Brothers

Score: 5.2

It's in the Bag

Score: 5.2

No Place for Jennifer

Score: 5.1

A Boy, a Girl and a Bike

Score: 4.9

The Smashing Bird I Used to Know

Score: 4.7

John and Julie

Score: 4.6

The Amorous Milkman

Score: 1.0

Kay

Score: 0.0

The Monkey's Paw

Score: 0.0

The Daedalus Equations

Score: 0.0

The Barber of Stamford Hill

Score: 0.0

Heart to Heart

Score: 0.0

The Green Helmet

Score: 0.0

If You Could See What I Can See

Score: 0.0

Where the Buffalo Roam

Score: 0.0

Weekend Guest

Score: 0.0

The Ten Year Plan

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Score: 8.6

The Human Jungle

Score: 8.2

Playhouse

Score: 7.0

Gideon's Way

Score: 6.8

Orson Welles' Great Mysteries

Score: 6.7

Father Brown

Score: 6.6

Oh No, It's Selwyn Froggitt!

Score: 6.3

Worzel Gummidge

Score: 6.2

Mystery and Imagination

Score: 5.5

Thirty-Minute Theatre

Score: 3.8

Ben Travers Farces

Score: 0.0

Young at Heart

Score: 0.0

Nathaniel Titlark

Score: 0.0

The Old Curiosity Shop

Score: 0.0

Menace

Score: 0.0

The Befrienders

Score: 0.0