Trivia

RADA-trained character actress.

Jennifer's best known role was as a character named Jennifer Kingsley in the 1970s series The Brothers. The show was such a huge hit in the Netherlands, that the cast recorded a Christmas album which charted in Holland - making Jennifer technically a recording artist as well as an actress.

Jennifer began her on-screen acting career in the 1950s and was acting through the decades until 2015.

Her first husband was the artist Stanley Swain, whom she married in 1954. In 1959, she married actor Brian Peck (1930-2021).

Beginning her on-screen acting career in the 1950s, she played Kate Nickleby in a BBC dramatization of Nicholas Nickleby in 1957.

She leaves behind her daughter Melanie, an actress and singer, and her grandsons Tobie and Ashley.

In 2000 she spent 11 months at St Martin's Theatre playing Mrs Boyle in the long-running Agatha Christie drama The Mousetrap. She returned to the role in 2009 for another crack at the hit murder-mystery production.

She played Detective Sergeant Helen Webb in the first series of ITV's Special Branch (1969) and, in probably her best known role, Jennifer Hammond in the 1970s series The Brothers.

In 1965, she appeared in Bill Naughton's Spring and Port Wine at the Mermaid Theatre, London in the part of Florence.

She joined a national touring production of Pride and Prejudice playing the matriarch role of Mrs Bennet.

After her mother remarried, Jennifer took her step-father's surname, Wilson.