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Jenny
was no stranger to our group; she had been a Friend of Anim-Mates for some
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I think they
are a terrific charity who fill a real and sadly ever-growing need in the
South East, and I am very pleased and honoured to be their Patron.
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Described as one of Britain’s most sensitive and beautiful actresses, Jenny was born in Malaysia. "There my mother instilled a love for animals in me," she says. “I often played with baby apes and bears.” When she was nine Jenny moved to boarding school in the UK. “I'd wanted to be a vet for years,” she says. "I got all my science A levels but one morning I really did wake up and think I can't do this, I'm too soft. I wouldn't be able to put an animal down - so I fell into acting." |
Jenny trained at the well-known Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Jenny works for many charities - animals, children, the elderly and the environment - and campaigns for organic food and alternative medicine. Jenny is passionate about animal rights: “I’ve been fighting for them in one way or another most of my life.” “I have often thought of giving up acting and working for animals. But in the end I have decided to carry on acting and use my position to help gain what publicity I can for them.” Jenny shares her life in North London with Bill Kenwright CBE, the distinguished theatrical producer and impresario and Chairman of Everton Football Club, and dogs Louie, a Springer Spaniel, and Millie, a black Jack Russell/Labrador-cross.
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Jenny is passionate about animal rights: “I’ve been fighting for them in one way or another most of my life.” As well as Patron of Anim-Mates Jenny is a Trustee of the Born Free Foundation and is involved in many animal organisations including Wildlife Aid, WSPA (World Society for the Protection of Animals), Viva (Vegetarians International Voice for Animals) and NAVS (National Anti-Vivisection Society). |
“It’s so obvious that animals have feelings and experience much the same emotions as we do – joy and happiness, fear and grief - and they have an emotional memory."
"You can see an animal working things out in its mind. It may not be exactly the same as our mind but it is equally complex and they are sentient beings with a soul.” “Anyone who has a dog knows this is true. I love dogs. I love their companionability and when you have a dog there is another heartbeat in the house.” “If you’ve been out and come home, there is an entirely different feeling to a house where there is dog waiting for you. When Kizzy, my previous Spaniel, died I truly grieved because I had lost a member of my family." "There is little difference between the sensitivity of a dog and the pigs who are crammed into factory farms or any other farmed animal. People simply close their eyes and their minds to the cruelty and abuse because it’s convenient to do so.”
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For many years Jenny Seagrove has graced our TV screens as Jo Mills, the lawyer who is the love interest of Judge John Deed in the TV series. Like Jenny, Martin Shaw, who plays Judge John Deed, is a vegetarian. "Martin and I live by the same values. All the food on the Judge John Deed set is vegetarian and it's wonderful. Even most of the meat-eaters like it." Jenny's career has spanned theatre, film and television. Her credits include Local Hero, A Woman of Substance, and Don’t Go Breaking My Heart. Her other movie roles include Appointment With Death, A Chorus Of Disapproval, Miss Beatty's Children, and Don't Go Breaking My Heart with ER's Anthony Edwards. |
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