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Megs Jenkins

Megs Jenkins

Actor · 1917 – 1998 · Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK

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.

Movies24

  • Movie7.0

    Oliver!

    1968 · 507 votes

  • Movie7.5

    The Innocents

    1961 · 688 votes

  • Movie7.2

    Bunny Lake Is Missing

    1965 · 223 votes

  • Movie6.8

    Ivanhoe

    1952 · 206 votes

  • Movie7.1

    Murder Most Foul

    1964 · 175 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Asylum

    1972 · 203 votes

  • Movie6.9

    The Cruel Sea

    1953 · 84 votes

  • Movie6.6

    Saraband for Dead Lovers

    1948 · 23 votes

  • Movie6.7

    Green for Danger

    1946 · 104 votes

  • Movie6.7

    Poison Pen

    1939 · 7 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Painted Boats

    1945 · 9 votes

  • Movie6.1

    Out of the Clouds

    1955 · 7 votes

  • Movie6.6

    Indiscreet

    1958 · 207 votes

  • Movie7.5

    The Man in the Sky

    1957 · 12 votes

  • Movie7.0
  • Movie7.2

    Tiger Bay

    1959 · 58 votes

  • Movie6.6

    The Turn of the Screw

    1974 · 13 votes

  • Movie6.8

    White Corridors

    1951 · 6 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Life for Ruth

    1962 · 12 votes

  • Movie6.9

    Jet Storm

    1959 · 16 votes

  • Movie4.9
  • Movie10.0
  • Movie5.8

    No Place for Jennifer

    1950 · 6 votes

  • Movie5.6

    David Copperfield

    1969 · 16 votes

Series20

  • TV5.2

    The Wednesday Play

    1964 · 5 votes

  • TV7.0

    ITV Playhouse

    1967 · 3 votes

  • TV7.0

    Playhouse

    1974 · 1 votes

  • TV4.3

    Thirty-Minute Theatre

    1965 · 8 votes

  • TV5.8
  • TV7.0

    Gideon's Way

    1965 · 5 votes

  • TV
  • TV6.8
  • TV6.8

    Father Brown

    1974 · 10 votes

  • TV8.2

    The Human Jungle

    1963 · 5 votes

  • TV7.6

    A Woman of Substance

    1985 · 11 votes

  • TV8.8

    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    1951 · 8 votes

  • TV6.2

    Worzel Gummidge

    1979 · 13 votes

  • TV
  • TV
  • TV9.0

    The Befrienders

    1972 · 1 votes

  • TV6.0

    Armchair Theatre

    1956 · 6 votes

  • TV10.0

    The Old Curiosity Shop

    1962 · 1 votes

  • TV6.5
  • TV