Megs Jenkins
Age: 81 | From:
Person Details
Birthday: 1917-04-21 03:35:41
Death: 1998-10-05 03:35:41
Aliases: No known aliases
Gender: Female
Place of birth:
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 35
TV Involvements: 4
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
Thirty-Minute Theatre
(1965) Miss Wellcome
Oliver!
(1968) Mrs. Bedwin
Ivanhoe
(1952) Servant to Isaac
The Innocents
(1961) Mrs. Grose
Asylum
(1972) Nurse Higgins
The Cruel Sea
(1953) Tallow's Sister
Bunny Lake Is Missing
(1965) Sister
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
(1973) Mrs. WhiteActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Mrs Braithwaite | |
| 1976 | Eileen Gray | |
| 1975 | Iris | |
| 1974 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| Sra. Grose | ||
| 1973 | Mrs. White | |
| 1972 | Nurse Higgins | |
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1970 | N/A | |
| 1969 | Clara Peggotty | |
| Matron | ||
| 1968 | Mrs. Bedwin | |
| 1967 | Mrs. Christoforides | |
| 1966 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| 1965 | Miss Wellcome | |
| Sister | ||
| Liz Rikker | ||
| 1964 | Gentlewoman | |
| Gladys Thomas | ||
| 1963 | N/A | |
| 1962 | Lady Johnson | |
| N/A | ||
| Mrs Gordon | ||
| 1961 | Mrs. Grose | |
| Kitty Launder | ||
| 1959 | Rose Brock | |
| Mrs. Phillips | ||
| 1958 | Doris Banks | |
| 1957 | Nurse Evans | |
| Millie | ||
| Mrs. Snowden | ||
| 1956 | N/A | |
| 1955 | Mrs. Pritchett | |
| Mrs Jones, the Landlady | ||
| 1954 | Maggie Gay | |
| 1953 | Vi Vining | |
| Mrs. Powell | ||
| Tallow's Sister | ||
| Miss Gibson | ||
| 1952 | Servant to Isaac | |
| Penny | ||
| 1951 | Gentlewoman | |
| Mrs. Briggs | ||
| 1950 | Mrs. Marshall | |
| 1949 | Nan Ritchie | |
| The Innkeeper | ||
| 1948 | Frau Busche | |
| Mrs. Alice Trelawne | ||
| 1947 | Angustina | |
| 1946 | Nurse Woods | |
| 1945 | Barmaid | |
| Shirley | ||
| Housewife | ||
| 1944 | Peach St. Clair | |
| 1943 | Nurse (uncredited) | |
| Gwen Price | ||
| 1939 | Barmaid | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
