Jean Kent
Biography
Jean Kent was an English film and television actress who began her theatrical career as a dancer at the age of ten. Born in Brixton, London, in 1921 to variety performers, she appeared as a chorus girl at the Windmill Theatre under the name Jean Carr before signing to Gainsborough Pictures during the Second World War. After small parts, she won a dramatic role in the melodrama Fanny by Gaslight (1944), which established her as the studio's backup to Margaret Lockwood. She shared top billing with Stewart Granger in Caravan and starred in Trottie True (1949), her favorite film. British film exhibitors voted her ninth among the country's top stars in 1950 and eighth in 1951. Later screen work included The Woman in Question (1950), The Browning Version (1951), The Prince and the Showgirl (1957) and Bonjour Tristesse (1958). She played Queen Elizabeth I in the television series Sir Francis Drake and appeared in Crossroads in 1981.
92years old at death
- Born Brixton
- Died Bury St Edmunds
- Star sign: CancerThe sign runs June 21 to July 22
- Also credited as Joan Mildred Field and Joan Field
Movie Career
- Films
- 7
- Career span
- 31 years1945 to 1976
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About the name
Kent was fired from the Windmill Theatre in London by Vivian Van Damm when she appeared there as a chorus girl under the stage name Jean Carr.
A role that slipped away
Kent was reunited with Granger in The Magic Bow (1946), and she again took a part that had originally been meant for Margaret Lockwood.
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Anthony Asquith directed two of these films. Six actors appear in two of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
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