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English actress, singer-songwriter, and artist

Jennifer Caron Hall (born 21 September 1958; also known as Jenny Wilhide)^[1] is an English actress, singer-songwriter, artist and journalist.^[2]

Early life

Hall was educated at the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle, Bedales School and Newnham College, Cambridge, where she read English.^[3]

Actress

At the National Theatre in London, Hall played Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream directed by Bill Bryden in 1982–1983, starring Paul Scofield and Susan Fleetwood as Oberon and Titania.^[4] This was the first ever production of Shakespeare in the Cottesloe Theatre ^[5] and transferred to the Lyttelton in 1983.

While Hall continued to play Helena, Scofield was replaced by Sir Robert Stephens and Brenda Blethyn joined the cast as Hermia^[6]

In the BBC's 1996 television adaptation of Rumer Godden's The Peacock Spring,^[7] Hall played Alix Lam Fanny (1961 film) - Wikipedia WOWER