STAR OF
"THE BROTHERS"
JENNIFER
WILSON
Agent: Billy Marsh
Drama Ltd., 11 Henrietta Street,
London WC2E 8PY
Jennifer Wilson's
credits as an actress are
extensive, below we present some
highlights from a rich 50 year
plus career.
Jennifer and
her husband, actor / director
Brian Peck
After leaving RADA
Jennifer’s first role was at
Nottingham playing Rosalind in As
You Like It. Her association
with the Bard continued, playing
Queen Anne in Richard III
at Southwark, followed by Viola
in Twelfth Night at
Regents Park Theatre, which won
her rave reviews. She was then
invited to join the Old Vic
company playing Lady Macduff in Macbeth
and Andromache in Tyrone
Guthrie’s production of Troilus
and Cressida, in
London and New York.
She made her
television debut as Kate Nickleby
in the BBC TV serial Nicholas
Nickleby. During this
production she met her future
husband Brian Peck who has
playing Smike. She toured in a
number of Shakespearean roles
opposite Marius Goring. Back home
again she played Gloria in
Shaw’s You Never Can Tell
for ITV, Ismene in Antigone and
Ibsen’s A Doll’s
House for ITV.
She then starred in
many television productions
including the title role in DH
Lawrence’s The Widowing
of Mrs. Holroyd, Kay in Time
and the Conways,
opposite Kenneth More in
Mortimer’s Collect Your
Handbaggage, with Eartha
Kit in The Second Mrs.
Tanqueray, opposite George
Cole in the award winning serial A
Man Of Our Times, which led
to the enormously successful BBC
television series The  Brothers in
which she played Jennifer
Kingsley-Hammond which ran for
seven years. She has also
appeared in many other television
series including Special
Branch, Softly Softly,
Dr. Finlay’s Casebook.
Jennifer’s West
End theatre work includes
Florence in Spring And Port
Wine at the Apollo
Theatre, Mrs. Darling opposite
Dave Allen and Maggie Smith in Peter
Pan at the Coliseum, Lend
Me Five Shillings at the
Vaudeville, Sarah in The Fling
at the King’s Head and The
Widening Gyre at the
Westminster Theatre.
Jennifer has been
seen at Windsor in a number of
productions, most notably as
Helen Hanff in 84 Charing
Cross Road, Maggie in Hobson’s
Choice, The Man Most
Likely Too…, Spider’s
Web, The Gentle Hook
and with Henry McGee in Jack
In The Box.
 Favourite roles
include: national tours of Pygmalion
playing Eliza,Ayckbourn’s Intimate
Exchanges, The Grass Is
Greener opposite Patrick
McNee in the UK, Toronto and the
Far East, Stella in September
Tide (with Colin Baker), Jane
Marryot in the 40th
anniversary production of Noel
Coward’s Cavalcade
which was the subject of a BBC
documentary and Jane in Fallen
Angels at Vienna’s
English Theatre.
In 1999 Jennifer and
Brian returned to live and work
in England, having lived in
France for several years. In 2000
she spent eleven months at the
St. Martin’s Theatre playing
Mrs. Boyle in The Mousetrap.
This was followed by the world
premiere of Five Blue Haired
Ladies Sitting On A Green
Park Bench, a national tour
as Mrs. Bennet in Pride &
Prejudice and Emily
Brent in And Then There Were
None for the Agatha
Christie Theatre Company. 2009
saw Jennifer returning to The
Mousetrap in the West End
for another very successful year
long engagement.
Recent television
appearances include: Peak
Practice, Casualty: The
Personal Touch, Doctors:
Mr. Punch with Andrew Sachs
and a guest appearance in Last
of The Summer Wine.
Jennifer and Brian
have one daughter, the singer and
actress Melanie Peck, who lives
in the south of France with her
two sons Tobie and Ashley.
The above photos
show Jennifer in the 2008
national tour of Agatha
Christie's And Then There
Were None. (Click on the
photos to view larger versions)
Above: Jennifer as
Lily Compton in Casualty
(BBC TV, 2007)
Above: Jennifer as
Maureen Vickerstaff, with Andrew
Sachs, in Doctors. (BBC
TV, 2006)
Above: Jennifer as
Mrs. Boyle with Rod Hallett in The
Mousetrap. (West End 2000)
Above & Below:
Promotional flyers/leaflets for
various stahe and theatre
productions starring Jennifer.
Click on each to view larger
versions.
TV Times cover to
promote The Widowing of Mrs.
Holroyd 1961
TV Times cover to
promote Jennifer's starring role
as Sally in A Man Of Our
Times opposite George Cole,
1968
Radio Times cover to
promote Jennifer Kingsley's
marriage to Edward Hammond in The
Brothers 1975
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