Jenny Lee-Wright
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Jenny Lee-Wright (born February 21, 1947 in London, England) is a British actress and dancer who later became a Foley artist.
At age 16, Jenny left school to train with the Ballet Rambert. Within a year, she became part of a French cabaret group that travelled the world. Upon returning to England, she joined Lionel Blair's dance troupe, and then turned to acting, appearing with such comedians as Morecambe and Wise, Dick Emery, Spike Milligan (in his Q series), Frankie Howerd, Tommy Cooper and, most famously, Benny Hill. Her work with Hill in particular earned her the nickname The Sexiest Stooge. Other television appearances included Masterspy (as Miss Moneypacker), The Golden Shot, and The Protectors.
In 1970, she made her film debut in John Cassavetes' Husbands, in which she played the role of Pearl Billingham. Other film roles included Madhouse and The Triple Echo. But in the late 1980s, she switched to Foley work, beginning with My Left Foot (1989) and continuing to the 1990s and beyond, with such credits as Muppet Treasure Island (1996), Shakespeare in Love (1998), the 2002 James Bond movie Die Another Day, and the 2004 version of The Phantom of the Opera. She had dabbled in Foley work as early as the 1970s in-between acting jobs, and in a 1976 magazine interview attributed her sense of timing in that field to her training as a dancer.
Jenny was immortalized in a 1989 song by British band The Highliners called "The Benny Hill Boogie."
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- Who's Who on Television (3rd edition), edited by Eddie Pedder (London, Independent Television Books Ltd., 1985)
- Motion Picture Players' Credits by Jeffrey Oliviero (Jefferson, NC, McFarland & Co., Inc., 1989)
- TV Times article, December 2, 1976.
