Call the Midwife’s Jenny Agutter on tackling the 70s ‘Sister Julienne might see me on TV’

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Jenny Agutter’s television career has spanned over almost 60 years, but nowadays, she’s more widely known for playing Sister Julienne in Call the Midwife.

A series that started in 2012, Call the Midwife has been going for over 10 years with over one hundred episodes and counting.The twelfth Christmas Special will air on Christmas Day with series 13 airing in January.

In fact, Call The Midwife is so popular that the drama has been renewed for series 14 and 15, which will take the action into the 1970s, a decade when Jenny, who has just turned 71, says she was doing things a lot differently to Sister Julienne. “Characters in the show might be able to watch me on television in the 1970s,” says Jenny “I was in The Railway Children in 1970, and Walkabout which I made in Australia.

I went to the States in the mid-70s, so I can’t bring my experiences to bear on what I’m doing in Call The Midwife, because they’re completely different.” “I tried to ask Helen [George, who plays Trixie Franklin] about her memories of the 1970s and, of course, she wasn’t born,” laughs Jenny. “My memories of the 70s are that there were a lot of strikes, there was rubbish on the streets, lots of problems, it wasn’t the easiest of times.” Over the years, Jenny has played many characters, from Spooks’ Tessa Phillips to Logan’s Run Jessica 6, Molly in The Eagle Has Landed to Nurse Alex Price in An American Werewolf in London.