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Jennifer Caron Hall
English actress, singer-songwriter, and artist (born 1958) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jennifer Caron Hall (born 21 September 1958; also known as Jenny Wilhide)[1] is an English actress, singer-songwriter, artist and journalist.[2]
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Since 2019 she has been artistic director of SHAKE Festival, a performing arts company and festival based in Suffolk. [3][4]
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Early life
Hall was educated at the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle, Bedales School and Newnham College, Cambridge, where she read English.[5]
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.[6] This was the first ever production of Shakespeare in the Cottesloe Theatre [7] 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[8]
In the BBC's 1996 television adaptation of Rumer Godden's The Peacock Spring,[9] Hall played Alix Lamont, a character of half-Indian, half-European descent and narrated the Macmillan Audio Book of it.[10] Caron also appeared in The Love Boat, alongside her mother in an hour-and-a-half special entitled 'The Christmas Cruise.'
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Music
Hall was signed to Warner Bros. Records and as Jennifer Hall released the album Fortune and Men's Eyes in 1987.[11] Her song "Ice Cream Days" appears on the Bright Lights, Big City: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.[12]
Art
In 2009, Hall began painting on her iPhone and exhibiting on a blog, The Blue Biro Gallery.[13] Her digitally enhanced self-portrait was featured in Vogue online.[14]
In 2012, the Theatre Royal in Bath commissioned her to paint a portrait of her father in oils. In 2013, Hall had a solo show at the Serena Moreton Gallery in London. [15]
Journalism
As a freelance journalist writing under the name Jenny Wilhide, she has written on arts and trends in titles such as the Evening Standard[16] and The Spectator,[17]
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