Acting
Wendy Barrie
- Born
- Apr 18, 1912 · Aged 65
- Died
- Feb 2, 1978
- Place of birth
- Hong Kong, British Crown Colony [now China]
- Gender
- Female
- Movie credits
- 53
- TV credits
- 2
Also known as (2)
- Marguerite Wendy Jenkins
- Маргарита Венди Дженкинс
Biography
Wendy Barrie was a British actress who worked in British and American films. Barrie was born in London to English parents. Her father, Francis Charles John Graigoe Jenkin KC (1883 – 1936), was an employee of Great Western (according to the 1901 census), who then joined the Royal Fusiliers in 1902. Her mother was Ellen McDonagh. Hollywood gave her a more exotic parentage with her father being a King's Counsel and her mother a Russian-Jewish actress who had performed in the world's first professional Yiddish-language theater troupe. She received her education at a convent school in England and…
