Jennifer Croxton

Jennifer Croxton (30 November 1944 – 6 December 2024) was a British actress.

Life and career

Jennifer Croxton was born in Cambridge on 30 November 1944.

Croxton guest-starred as Lady Diana Forbes-Blakeney opposite Patrick Macnee in a 1969 episode of The Avengers, "Killer",^[1][2] a role that remains one of her best-known.^[3][4] She appeared in the film Our Miss Fred (1972) opposite Danny La Rue; her other television credits include It's Awfully Bad for Your Eyes, Darling,^[5][6] Anne of Avonlea, and The Lady and the Highwayman. She played Plautia Urgulanilla in I, Claudius,^[7] and appeared in The Cleopatras, The Agatha Christie Hour and The Stanley Baxter Show.^[8]

In 2003 Croxton portrayed Wallis Simpson in Paul Ibell's play A Dangerous Woman, at the Jermyn Street Theatre, London.^[9]

Croxton was a member of the BAFTA academy.^[10] She died on 6 December 2024, at the age of 80.^[11][12][13]