Megs Jenkins

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK, 1917-04-21

Died: 1998-10-05

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1939	Poison Pen	Barmaid	65
2	1943	Millions Like Us	Gwen Price	55
3	1943	The Lamp Still Burns	Nurse (uncredited)	54
4	1944	It's in the Bag	Peach St. Clair	52
5	1945	The Ten Year Plan	Housewife	0
6	1945	29 Acacia Avenue	Shirley	57
7	1945	Painted Boats	Barmaid	69
8	1946	Green for Danger	Nurse Woods	67
9	1947	The Brothers	Angustina	52
10	1948	The Monkey's Paw	Mrs. Alice Trelawne	58
11	1948	Saraband for Dead Lovers	Frau Busche	66
12	1949	The History of Mr. Polly	The Innkeeper	74
13	1949	A Boy, a Girl and a Bike	Nan Ritchie	49
14	1950	No Place for Jennifer	Mrs. Marshall	51
15	1951	White Corridors	Mrs. Briggs	66
16	1952	Secret People	Penny	63
17	1952	Ivanhoe	Servant to Isaac	68
18	1953	The Cruel Sea	Tallow's Sister	69
19	1953	Rough Shoot	Mrs. Powell	62
20	1953	Personal Affair	Vi Vining	62
21	1953	Trouble in Store	Miss Gibson	61
22	1954	The Gay Dog	Maggie Gay	65
23	1955	Out of the Clouds	Mrs Jones, the Landlady	67
24	1955	John and Julie	Mrs. Pritchett	46
25	1957	The Man in the Sky	Mrs. Snowden	71
26	1957	The Passionate Stranger	Millie	55
27	1957	The Story of Esther Costello	Nurse Evans	69
28	1958	Indiscreet	Doris Banks	66
29	1959	Friends and Neighbours	Lily Grimshaw	70
30	1959	Tiger Bay	Mrs. Phillips	72
31	1959	Jet Storm	Rose Brock	69
32	1961	The Green Helmet	Kitty Launder	0
33	1961	The Innocents	Mrs. Grose	75
34	1962	Life for Ruth	Mrs Gordon	64
35	1962	Heart to Heart	Lady Johnson	0
36	1963	The Barber of Stamford Hill		0
37	1964	Murder Most Foul	Gladys Thomas	70
38	1964	Macbeth	Gentlewoman	60
39	1965	Bunny Lake Is Missing	Sister	72
40	1966	Where the Buffalo Roam		0
41	1967	Cop-Out	Mrs. Christoforides	53
42	1968	Oliver!	Mrs. Bedwin	70
43	1969	The Smashing Bird I Used to Know	Matron	47
44	1969	David Copperfield	Clara Peggotty	54
45	1972	Asylum	Nurse Higgins	60
46	1973	The Monkey's Paw	Mrs. White	0
47	1974	Weekend Guest	Beryl Steele	0
48	1974	The Turn of the Screw	Sra. Grose	65
49	1974	If You Could See What I Can See	Mrs. Palmer	0
50	1975	The Amorous Milkman	Iris Peters	10
51	1976	The Daedalus Equations	Eileen Gray	0
52	1980	A Cup O' Tea An' A Slice O' Cake - Worzel Gummidge Christmas Special	Mrs Braithwaite	100

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Gentlewoman	86
2	1956	Nathaniel Titlark		0
3	1962	The Old Curiosity Shop		0
4	1963	The Human Jungle	Dr. Murphy	82
5	1965	Gideon's Way	Liz Rikker	68
6	1965	Thirty-Minute Theatre	Miss Wellcome	38
7	1966	Mystery and Imagination		55
8	1970	Menace		0
9	1972	The Befrienders		0
10	1973	Orson Welles' Great Mysteries	Mrs. White	67
11	1974	Playhouse	Eileen Gray	70
12	1974	Father Brown		66
13	1974	Oh No, It's Selwyn Froggitt!	Mum	63
14	1979	Worzel Gummidge	Mrs. Braithwaite	62
15	1980	Young at Heart	Ethel Collyer	0

Megs Jenkins

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