Jenny Agutter

Tribute – Jenny Agutter

In a conversation with author Justin Cronin (The Passage) a few weeks back, the 1976 science fiction movie Logan’s Run came up. More importantly, the name of the actress who played Jessica, Logan’s love interest, sent both Cronin and interviewer into a mental tailspin back to our adolescence. As Cronin said, that movie, and the actress in particular, practically brought on the onset of puberty for him. Her name: Jenny Agutter.

Jenny Agutter went on to star in a number of other movies including An American Werewolf in London (1981) and Equus (1977), and TV series, and she had already appeared in numerous movies and TV series before Logan’s Run. But it was that ’70s sci-fi movie that, I’m guessing, really struck a chord with a generation of males.

Logan's Run movie poster

“They are very fast glass bubbles” – Jenny Agutter interviewed for Canadian TV about Logan’s Run:

Jenny Agutter, who was born in 1952, is still alive and well, and recently visited a school in Cornwall to give acting tips to students before their Shakespeare festival (here’s a tip: show your bum!).

Here are some pics from the prime of Miss Jenny Agutter:

Jenny Agutter in American Werewolf in London

Jenny Agutter promo pic from Logan's Run.

Jenny Agutter promo pic from Logan's Run.

Jenny Agutter with Michael York in a publicity photo for Logan's Run (1976).