Wendy Allnutt

Wendy Allnutt (born 1 May 1946) is an English stage and screen actress.

She now teaches at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, leading a degree course in Training Actors Movement.

In 1967, Dennis Potter sent Allnutt what has been called a love-letter in print, in which he said Wendy Allnutt is paralysingly beautiful, with huge, dark eyes which suddenly flood with warmth or freeze into an icy indifference. She can also act...”

As well as her work on screen, she also appeared in Royal Shakespeare Company productions and in West End theatre. She went on to develop a second career in teaching, working at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and also teaching courses in Italy. In 2003, she was the choreographer for a production of Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.

Films Oh! What a Lovely War (1969), as Flo Smith Wuthering Heights (1970) All Coppers Are... (1972) as Peg From Beyond the Grave (1974), as Pamela When Eight Bells Toll (1971), as Sue Kirkside The Funny Side of Christmas (1982) Priest of Love (1984) as Maria Huxley

Television

The Avengers: Invasion of the Earthmen (1969), as Sarah Bel Ami (1971), as Suzanne Walter The Regiment (1972–1973), as Charlotte Gaunt Napoleon and Love (1974), as Madame Tallien Man About the House (1975), as Susan King Lear (BBC, 1976), as Cordelia John Macnab (1976), as Agatha Raden Juliet Bravo (series 1, 1980), as Jennie Randall Sorry!, as Annette (series 1) and Jennifer (series 6) Dear John (1987), as Wendy