Jenny Seagrove

Acting

Jenny Seagrove

Born 1957-07-04 · Kuala Lumpur, Malaya [now Malaysia]

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jennifer Ann Seagrove (born 4 July 1957) is an English actress. She trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and rose to fame playing the lead in a TV dramatisation of Barbara Taylor Bradford's A Woman of Substance and the 1983 film Local Hero. She is now well known in the character of Jo Mills in the long-running BBC drama series Judge John Deed (2001–07). Her credits as a voiceover artist include a series of Waitrose television advertisements.

Acting credits

Appointment with Death poster
6.1

Emily Boynton, the stepmother to three children, blackmails the family lawyer into destroying a second will of her late husband that would have freed the children from her dominating influence. She takes herself, the children, and her daughter-in-law on holiday to Europe and the Holy Land. At a dig, Emily is found dead and Hercule Poirot investigates.

Appointment with Death

1988

My Sister's Bones poster
6.8

Kate Rafter is back to home after a horrific incident in war-torn Iraq and the death of her mother. While packing up her mother's belongings she comes to believe there is something strange and terrifying happening in the house next door.

My Sister's Bones

2026

Dead End poster
10.0

A woman receives a menacing phone call from a stranger and is later plagued by a series of eerie circumstances after she parks her car in a local parking garage.

Dead End

1980

Local Hero poster
6.8

An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.

Local Hero

1983

The Guardian poster
5.7

Phil and Kate select the winsome young Camilla as a live-in nanny for their newborn child, but the seemingly lovely Camilla is not what she appears to be...

The Guardian

1990

A Chorus of Disapproval poster
5.4

Guy Jones (Irons) moves to a small British town and joins the local amateur dramatics society as a way to meet people. However he soon finds the drama offstage far outweighs those onstage.

A Chorus of Disapproval

1989

The Sign of Four poster
7.4

Mary Morstan has received a pearl in the post every year since her father's disappearance. This leads Holmes and Watson to the truth about a secret pact between four convicts during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.

The Sign of Four

1987

Nate and Hayes poster
6.1

Nathaniel Williamsen is taken to an island mission with his fiancee Sophie. Their ship, the Rona, is captained by the roguish Bully Hayes, who also takes a liking to Sophie. When Sophie is kidnapped by slave trader Ben Pease "Nate" teams with Hayes in order to find her.

Nate and Hayes

1983

Moonlighting poster
7.1

A Polish contractor, Nowak, leads a group of workmen to London so they can provide cheap labor for a government official based there. Nowak has to manage the project and the men as they encounter the tempations of the West and loneliness and separation from their families. Nowak is the only one of the group who speaks English, and he uses this as a tool over his team. When the unrest in Poland leads to a military takeover, Nowak is faced with a much more difficult situation than he expected.

Moonlighting

1982

Beautiful Birds poster
NR

When a widowed birdwatcher reluctantly teams up with her granddaughter for a local birdwatching competition on an island in Scotland, their search for rare species becomes a heartfelt journey through grief, love, and letting go.

Beautiful Birds

2026

Another Mother's Son poster
6.7

The true story of Louisa Gould, a widow living in Nazi occupied Jersey, who takes in a Russian prisoner of war.

Another Mother's Son

2017

Off the Rails poster
6.0

Now in their 50’s, three friends recreate an inter-rail journey across Europe, but this time 18-year-old Maddie is taking her mother’s place, fulfilling her dying wish. With lost passports, train strikes and romantic entanglements thrown in their way, they must put old feuds aside to complete the journey within five days and remind themselves that they are still at their peak.

Off the Rails

2021

Bullseye! poster
5.2

Spies force two British con men to pose as look-alike scientists peddling cheap-energy fusion.

Bullseye!

1990

No artwork available
NR

A divorcee kidnaps her young daughter from her ex-husband and flies to Turkey to meet her lover. But he has been sent on an assignment to Paris and Helen becomes aware she is being watched by a handsome South American.

Some Other Spring

1991

Run For Your Wife poster
4.4

John Smith has been happily involved in a bigamous marriage for five years. He lives with Stephanie in Finsbury and Michelle in Stockwell. Fortunately, for John, he's a taxi driver which involves varying shift work! Simple? Well, when John unwittingly becomes a have-a-go hero and the Finsbury and Stockwell police forces discover something suspicious in their paperwork, John's happy bubble is about to be burst. The action of the movie takes place during the next hectic 24 hours as John, with the assistance of his gullible neighbor Gary, rush between North and South London attempting to thwart the police and prevent the two loving wives coming face to face!

Run For Your Wife

2012

Deadly Game poster
5.9

A group of seven strangers, including a dancer, a doctor, a teacher, and a disgraced former football player, are brought together on an island owned by the mysterious Osirus. There they are told that at some point in their lives, they crossed Osirus and now must face his revenge. The seven must reach a boat on the opposite side of the island before Osirus and his hunters track them down and kill them.

Deadly Game

1991

Zoe poster
3.0

Three runaway girls hijack a car.

Zoe

2001

Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls poster
5.1

King Edward asks Sherlock Holmes to perform one more task before his retirement: to safeguard the Star of Africa on a trip to Cape Town. Soon the fabled jewel is stolen and several people end up being murdered.

Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls

1992

Magic Moments poster
6.7

A successful magician is approached to do a TV special, which he has not done before. He and the beautiful producer of the show fall in love with each other, much to the disappointment of her possessive guardian (who is the person she works for). He sets out to wreck their happiness.

Magic Moments

1989

Don't Go Breaking My Heart poster
5.2

Well meaning friends try to persuade Suzanne, a beautiful widow, to remarry and the choice seems to be between Frank, a philandering dentist, and Tony, a sensitive, failing sports trainer who helps her son.

Don't Go Breaking My Heart

1999

Norway Massacre: The Survivors Story poster
NR

When Anders Breivik opened fire on Utoya Island in 2011 he commited the worst massacre in Norway's history, killing 69 people, many of them teenagers. He had, earlier that day, taken 8 lives in the bombing of a Government building in Oslo. During his trial the world debated whether he was insane or pure evil. We talk to people who met and knew him, as well as survivors of his murderous spree.

Norway Massacre: The Survivors Story

2012

Hamlet poster
7.8

A tale of revenge that has stood the test of time, Shakespeare’s classic tragedy is reimagined for the modern day as a gripping psychological thriller! Transcending the confines of the stage, the film utilises nearly every room of the Theatre Royal Windsor to transform it into the immortal Elsinore Castle, from basement dungeon to roof-top battlement.

Hamlet

2024

In Like Flynn poster
6.5

Life is one cliff-hanger after another for a bright and beautiful woman and the reluctant young man who joins her in defying death as they investigate a series of baffling murders and disappearances in the Caribbean for a mysterious novelist whose best-selling thrillers are based on chilling reality.

In Like Flynn

1985

New Order Story poster
7.2

Rising from the ashes of the legendary British post-punk unit Joy Division, the enigmatic New Order triumphed over tragedy to emerge as one of the most influential and acclaimed bands of the 1980's, embracing the electronic textures and disco rhythms of the underground club culture many years in advance of its contempraries. "New Order Story" is the definitive documentary on the band and traces their history all the way back to its origin with Joy Division. This extended version includes additional interviews and live footage, over 2 hours of great New Order footage. A longform video chronicling the band's history and music with interviews by Bono, Neil Tennant, Quincy Jones and others.

New Order Story

1993