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Megs Jenkins

Megs Jenkins

Birthday: 1917-04-21 | Place of Birth: 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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1974
The Turn of the Screw

as    Sra. Grose

1968
Oliver!

as    Mrs. Bedwin

1965
Murder Most Foul

as    Gladys Thomas

1961
The Innocents

as    Mrs. Grose

1959
Tiger Bay

as    Mrs. Phillips

1958
Indiscreet

as    Doris Banks

1955
John and Julie

as    Mrs. Pritchett

1954
Personal Affair

as    Vi Vining

1953
Trouble in Store

as    Miss Gibson

1952
Secret People

as    Penny

1949
A Boy, a Girl and a Bike

as    Nan Ritchie

1948
Saraband for Dead Lovers

as    Frau Busche

1948
The Monkey's Paw

as    Mrs. Alice Trelawne

1947
Green for Danger

as    Nurse Woods

1943
Millions Like Us

as    Gwen Price