Jenny Hanley

Hanley is the daughter of actors Dinah Sheridanhttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q129258 and Jimmy Hanley.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Hanley After her education at schools in Southern England and in Switzerland, she trained as a nanny and did modelling work. Through her mother, she is of Russian and German descent. Hanley’s grandmother was a photographer who, as Studio Lisa, https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp60252/studio-lisa-lisa-sheridan had privileged access to the royal family, photographing both Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret in relaxed, family poses and the next generation, Prince Charles, Princess Anne and Prince Edward in informal shots. She also helped to launch the career of a male model who later became an actor, Roger Moore.

She is probably most memorable as the face of ITV’s iconic Children’s programme – “Magpie”https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0360081/ for six years. But she’s also remembered as the ‘Bond Girl’ in the James Bond film On Her Majesty’s Secret Service and as Christopher Lee’s Count Dracula prey in Scars of Dracula. She returned to the stage in 2017 in Agatha Christie ‘The Hollow’ and in 2018 starred in the United National Theatre Company’s ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’.https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0360081/mediaviewer/rm1051328512/?ref_=nmmi_mi_2

Jenny has appeared in movies alongside Ava Gardner, Peter Sellers and Ingrid Bergman. She turned down legendary lothario Warren Beatty and beat Raquel Welch and Brigitte Bardot to the title of the world’s sexiest woman.

Her brother, Sir Jeremy Hanley, had a career as an accountant and later became a Conservative Party MP. 

Hanley married Herbie Clark in 1980 and divorced in 1997. Jenny is the mother of two sons and now lives in Hastings.

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