Megs Jenkins
Acting
Born 1917-04-21
Died 1998-10-05
Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
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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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Acting
57 credits
Gideon's Way
The Wednesday Play
Playhouse
ITV Playhouse
Thirty-Minute Theatre
A Woman of Substance
Drama 61-67
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
Mystery and Imagination
The Human Jungle
Worzel Gummidge
W. Somerset Maugham
Oliver!
Father Brown
The Innocents
Menace
Ivanhoe
Ben Travers Farces
Asylum
The Cruel Sea
Murder Most Foul
Bunny Lake Is Missing
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Indiscreet
Tiger Bay
Oh No, It's Selwyn Froggitt!
Poison Pen
Painted Boats
Saraband for Dead Lovers
The Sound of Laughter
The Befrienders
The Gay Dog
Armchair Theatre
Kay
Out of the Clouds
Young at Heart
The Man in the Sky
Stranger in the House
The Story of Esther Costello
Green for Danger
Personal Affair
The Passionate Stranger
Jet Storm
Trouble in Store
The Smashing Bird I Used to Know
Life for Ruth
Millions Like Us
Friends and Neighbours
The Turn of the Screw
The Amorous Milkman
Secret People
David Copperfield
The Monkey's Paw
A Boy, a Girl and a Bike
The Daedalus Equations
29 Acacia Avenue
Rough Shoot
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