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”’Jennifer Caron Hall”’ (born 21 September 1958; also known as ”’Jenny Wilhide”’)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.newnhamassociates.org.uk/members/jwilhide/ |title=Jenny Wilhide | Newnham Associates |access-date=22 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161224031325/http://www.newnhamassociates.org.uk/members/jwilhide/ |archive-date=24 December 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> is an English actress, singer-songwriter, artist and journalist.<ref name=heaven /> |
”’Jennifer Caron Hall”’ (born 21 September 1958; also known as ”’Jenny Wilhide”’)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.newnhamassociates.org.uk/members/jwilhide/ |title=Jenny Wilhide | Newnham Associates |access-date=22 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161224031325/http://www.newnhamassociates.org.uk/members/jwilhide/ |archive-date=24 December 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> is an English actress, singer-songwriter, artist and journalist.<ref name=heaven /> |
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In 2019 she founded SHAKE Festival, a performing arts company and Shakespeare festival based in Suffolk, UK. <ref>{{cite news|work=Financial Times|title=Jenny Caron Hall on her unfinished business with Shakespeare|url=https://www.ft.com/content/2a3930c7-2605-4ddf-97a8-34513c06df32|date=16 November 2020|last1=Aspden|first1=Peter}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|work= The Times|title=A Midsummer Night’s Dream Review|url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/a-midsummer-nights-dream-review-dan-stevens-shines-in-zoom-production-mfnb3nn9j|date=1 April 2021 |
In 2019 she founded SHAKE Festival, a performing arts company and Shakespeare festival based in Suffolk, UK. <ref>{{cite news|work=Financial Times|title=Jenny Caron Hall on her unfinished business with Shakespeare|url=https://www.ft.com/content/2a3930c7-2605-4ddf-97a8-34513c06df32|date=16 November 2020|last1=Aspden|first1=Peter}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|work= The Times|title=A Midsummer Night’s Dream Review|url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/a-midsummer-nights-dream-review-dan-stevens-shines-in-zoom-production-mfnb3nn9j|date=1 April 2021}}</ref> |
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In September 2025 she directed Akenfield, a new adaptation by [[Glenn Wilhide]] of [[Ronald Blythe]]’s rural masterpiece, cast with local people. <ref>{{cite news|title=Beyond The Curtain|title=Akenfield – Jenny Hall and Glenn Wilhide Interview|date=22 September 2025|url=https://www.beyondthecurtain.co.uk/2025/09/akenfield-jenny-hall-and-glenn-wilhide.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|work=East Anglia Daily Times|title=Review: Ronald Blythe’s Akenfield on stage in Ipswich, 5 out of 5 Stars|date=5 October 2025|last1=Fossett|first1=Abygail|url=https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/25514111.review-ronald-blythes-akenfield-stage-ipswich}}</ref> |
In September 2025 she directed Akenfield, a new adaptation by [[Glenn Wilhide]] of [[Ronald Blythe]]’s rural masterpiece, cast with local people. <ref>{{cite news|title=Beyond The Curtain|title=Akenfield – Jenny Hall and Glenn Wilhide Interview|date=22 September 2025|url=https://www.beyondthecurtain.co.uk/2025/09/akenfield-jenny-hall-and-glenn-wilhide.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|work=East Anglia Daily Times|title=Review: Ronald Blythe’s Akenfield on stage in Ipswich, 5 out of 5 Stars|date=5 October 2025|last1=Fossett|first1=Abygail|url=https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/25514111.review-ronald-blythes-akenfield-stage-ipswich}}</ref> |
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== Early life == |
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English actress, singer-songwriter, and artist (born 1958)
Jennifer Caron Hall (born 21 September 1958; also known as Jenny Wilhide)[1] is an English actress, singer-songwriter, artist and journalist.[2]
In 2019 she founded SHAKE Festival, a performing arts company and Shakespeare festival based in Suffolk, UK. [3][4]
In September 2025 she directed Akenfield, a new adaptation by Glenn Wilhide of Ronald Blythe’s rural masterpiece, cast with local people. [5][6][7]
Hall was educated at the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle, Bedales School and Newnham College, Cambridge, where she read English.[8]
At the National Theatre in London, Hall played Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by Bill Bryden in 1982–1983, starring Paul Scofield and Susan Fleetwood as Oberon and Titania.[9] This was the first ever production of Shakespeare in the Cottesloe Theatre [10] and transferred to the Lyttelton in 1983. While Hall continued to play Helena, Scofield was replaced by Sir Robert Stephens and Brenda Blethyn joined the cast as Hermia[11]
In the BBC‘s 1996 television adaptation of Rumer Godden‘s The Peacock Spring,[12] Hall played Alix Lamont, a character of half-Indian, half-European descent and narrated the Macmillan Audio Book of it.[13] Caron also appeared in The Love Boat, alongside her mother in an hour-and-a-half special entitled ‘The Christmas Cruise.’
Hall was signed to Warner Bros. Records and as Jennifer Hall released the album Fortune and Men’s Eyes in 1987.[14] Her song “Ice Cream Days” appears on the Bright Lights, Big City: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.[15]
In 2009, Hall began painting on her iPhone and exhibiting on a blog, The Blue Biro Gallery.[16] Her digitally enhanced self-portrait was featured in Vogue online.[17]
In 2012, the Theatre Royal in Bath commissioned her to paint a portrait of her father in oils. In 2013, Hall had a solo show at the Serena Moreton Gallery in London. [18]
As a freelance journalist writing under the name Jenny Wilhide, she has written on arts and trends in titles such as the Evening Standard[19] and The Spectator,[20]
- WGBH (1997). Peacock Spring: Program Description. Masterpiece Theatre, 1997. Retrieved from [1].
- Mulryne, J.R.; Shewring, Margaret; Barnes, Jason; Mulryne, Ronnie (1999). “The Cottesloe at the National: Infinite Riches in a Little Room” (book). Mulryne & Shewring Ltd, 1999.
