Jenny Seagrove

British actress born in Malaysia, the daughter of English expatriates. She trained at Bristol Old Victor Theatre school, and played in London in the West End productions Present Laughter and The Miracle Worker as well as Jane Eyre and King Lear in New York. She became well known for a great deal of TV and as an English film star. She is known for her role as the character of Jo Mills in the long-running BBC drama series Judge John Deed (2001–2007).

Wearing glasses from the time she was seven, Seagrove was insecure, anorexic and bulimic as a drama student, grinding her teeth at night. She married divorced British and Indian actor Madhav Sharma in 1984 after which she entered a period of low depression, seeing a psychiatrist for nine months. She left her controlling husband and went to court for a bitterly contested divorce in July 1988, finalised that year.

On 26 May 1987, she was devastated when her lover was killed in a car crash. She dated film director Michael Winner from 1989 to 1993. Since 1994, her partner has been the West End impresario Bill Kenwright.