THE LION QUEEN
Jenny Seagrove chats about her passion for protecting wildlife, her belief in hard work and acting with the ‘extraordinary’ Sir Ian McKellen and other celebrity friends
Jenny joins Will Travers and Glen Vena Shamwari (top) on a field trip with the Born Free Foundation in 2005
And stars with Jonathan Hyde and Sir Ian McKellen in Hamlet at the Theatre Royal Windsor in 2021
Jenny Seagrove’s stellar career has won her huge audiences, grand accolades and celebrity friends including fellow actress Dame Judi Dench.
“I’m proud to call her a friend and a remarkable human being,” says Jenny, 67, who starred with Dame Judi in 2021 film Off the Rails. “When I work with her, I’ve got to make sure I’m at the top of my game.”
She has also shared the screen with Sir John Gielgud and Burt Lancaster, and is close to other former co-stars including Rupert Everett, whom she calls the “man of mischief” after they appeared together in 1982’s Academy Award-winning A Shocking Accident.