Jenny Twigge (born 19 January 1950) is a British actress who has mainly appeared in television series, though she did appear as a schoolgirl in Vampire Circus (1972) and played an air hostess in Holocaust 2000 (1977).[1] She is a patron of animal rescue group All Dogs Matter.[2]
Twigge made numerous one-off appearances in 1970s TV series including Love Story (1972), Kate (1972), Softly, Softly: Taskforce (1972), Crown Court (two separate characters in 1973), Armchair Theatre (1973), New Scotland Yard (1974), Dixon of Dock Green (1974), Z-Cars (1976), and Blake's 7 (1979). Then in 1980 she was in single episodes of The Onedin Line and The Professionals. More recently, she played Rachel Ashbourne in episode 78 of The Bill (series 13), first aired in 1997. Longer term, Twigge appeared regularly in General Hospital (Dr. Cathy Waddon from 1974-75),[3] Hadleigh (Joanna Roberts throughout 1976), Rooms (Carol West throughout 1977), Grange Hill (Mrs. McGuire from 1982-87), and Byker Grove (playing Clare Warner from 1989-90).
In 1979, Twigge played alongside Alfred Marks, Polly James, Hugh Paddick and Fenella Fielding in Aladdin.[4] In the same year she played Anne in A Dance to the Music of Time on BBC Radio 4[5] and was in Elizabeth Gowan's Partnership Limited in Radio 4's Thirty-minute Theatre strand.[6] In 1980, she starred with Trevor Cooper in Paul Bryers' The File On Leo Kaplan, originally broadcast in the Saturday Night Theatre strand on 12 January 1980 [7]
