Jennifer Caron Hall
21 September 1958
actress, singer-songwriter, artist, journalist
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- Christopher Hall (brother)
- Edward Hall (half-brother)
- Rebecca Hall (half-sister)
Early life[edit]
Hall was educated at the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle, Bedales School and Newnham College, Cambridge, where she read English.[3]
Actress[edit]
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.[4] This was the first ever production of Shakespeare in the Cottesloe Theatre [5] 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[6]
In the BBC's 1996 television adaptation of Rumer Godden's The Peacock Spring,[7] Hall played Alix Lamont, a character of half-Indian, half-European descent and narrated the Macmillan Audio Book of it.[8]
Music[edit]
Hall was signed to Warner Bros. Records and as Jennifer Hall released the album Fortune and Men's Eyes in 1987.[9] Her song "Ice Cream Days" appears on the Bright Lights, Big City: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.[10]
Arts Journalism[edit]
As a freelance journalist writing under the name Jenny Wilhide, she has written on arts and trends in titles such as the Evening Standard[14] and The Spectator,[15]