Jennifer Thanisch

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Jennifer Thanisch (born April 24, 1964 in Laleham , Middlesex ) is a former English actress .

She became known across Europe at the end of the 1970s for the role of Anne Kirrin from the television series Five Friends .

Life

Jennifer Thanisch grew up in Laleham, where her parents ran a pub called Three Horseshoes . She had her first film role in 1973 in the horror film The Tomb of the Living Dolls with Christopher Lee and Joan Collins . However, she did not gain a certain fame until the mid-1970s through the role as Susie, the daughter of inspector Jack Regan, in the series Die Füchse ( The Sweeney ).

She only became known across Europe through her impersonation of Anne Kirrin in the television series Five Friends , which appeared between 1978 and 1979. In the series, which was particularly successful in Germany and was repeated several times, she was seen in the film for the last time.

Today she lives near Lewes , Sussex . She is married, has two grown children and is a religion teacher at an English primary school.

She is no longer active as an actress. At the end of 2008, however, she was on television again, in a special ( Famous Five revisited ) to mark the 50th anniversary of Independent Television ( ITV ) in the south of England. Here she met her fellow actor Marcus Harris from the series Five Friends and talked about the filming of that time. The special aired on the Meridian Tonight and Thames Valley Tonight news programs.

Filmography

  • 1973: The Tomb of the Living Dolls (Dark Places)
  • 1973: Spy Trap (TV series, episode: A Perfect Victim)
  • 1975–1976: The Foxes ( The Sweeney , TV series, 3 episodes)
  • 1976: Lorna Doone (TV series, episode: 1.1)
  • 1976: The Snow Queen
  • 1977: Leap in the Dark (TV series, episode: The Fetch)
  • 1978–1979: Five Friends ( The Famous Five , TV series, 26 episodes)

literature

  • Thomas Hruska; Jovan Evermann: The new series guide. Volume 1 to 4. 2004

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Famous Five! In: Look-in magazine No. 27 1978; or the German translation of this
  2. ↑ Five Friends - Memories of Gary Russell - Translation of his own homepage or the English version of this page
  3. ↑ Five friends - meeting the actors of the '78 TV series ( Memento from February 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ The Oxford Times - Memories revived of Famous Five
  5. ^ The Enid Blyton Society - Enid Blyton Day: 13th May, 2006

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personal data
SURNAME Thanisch, Jennifer
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thanish, Jenny; Thanisch, Jenny; Thamisch, Jenny
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English actress
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH unsure: Laleham , England , United Kingdom