Jenny Agutter

The family lives in Cornwall, UK. She also dated Marilyn Manson, but they have since split. The couple have one son, Jonathan. Balk has been romantically linked to British actor David Thewlis. Agutter is married to Johan Tham, a Swedish hotelier. Balk also had a memorable performance as a neo-nazi opposite Edward Norton in American History X. Since 2002, Agutter has been featured in the British television series Spooks. This was particularly appropriate casting, as Fairuza is a wiccan in real life, and she owns a store dedicated to that religion, named Panpipes Magickal.

In 2000, she made her third appearance in a production of The Railway Children, this time playing the role of the mother. Balk was soon cast in The Craft, in which she forms a teenage coven along with Neve Campbell, Rachel True and Robin Tunney. She has appeared in the TV series TECX, The All New Alexei Sayle Show, and And the Beat Goes On. In 1992 she was awarded an Independent Spirit Award as Best Actress for her performance in Gas Food Lodging. In the last decade, Agutter has mainly worked in television. Then she went back to Hollywood, where she began to be more and more noticed as an actress. Agutter appeared in a number of films over the next decade, including: The Snow Goose (1971), The Eagle Has Landed (1976), Logan's Run (1976), Equus (1977), Sweet William (1980), and An American Werewolf in London (1981). In 1988 she moved to Paris to do more work as an actress, and by 1989 she was back in Vancouver, where she began to attend high school. Soon, however, she decided to take correspondence courses instead.

The film's theme of the transition from childhood to adulthood mirrored Agutter's life and career at the time. At that age also, she was picked by the Walt Disney Company to star in the movie Return to Oz. Agutter began a transition to adult roles in Walkabout (1971), playing a teenaged schoolgirl who was lost in the Australian outback with her younger brother. At the age of 11 she moved to London, where she attented various prestigious ballet and acting schools. Her quality of ingenuousness led on to a more serious role in I Start Counting (1969). Raised for the first part of her life in San Francisco, she and her mother moved to Vancouver when Fairuza counted nine years of age. She first came to the attention of television audiences as Roberta in a BBC dramatisation of The Railway Children, and went on to play the same part in Lionel Jeffries' 1970 film of the book. Soon after her parents split, Fairuza became a world traveller.

Her first film appearance was in East of Sudan (1964). Legend has it that she was named Fairuza because her father, an expert in Persian culture, exclaimed that word the moment she was born, Fairuza meaning Turquoise in Persian, and Balk's eyes being of that color. The daughter of a British Army officer, she travelled the world as a child. She is a native of Point Reyes, California. Jennifer Ann Agutter was born in Taunton, Somerset. Fairuza Alejandra Balk (born May 21, 1974) is an American film actress, probably most famous for her participation in the 1996 movie The Craft. Jenny Agutter (born December 20, 1952) is an English actress. What Is It? (2003).

1972 - Emmy (Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in Drama) for The Snow Goose. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002 video game), as "Mercedes Cortez". 1978 - BAFTA (Best Supporting Actress) for Equus. Deuces Wild (2002). Love's Labour's Lost (BBC, 1985). Personal Velocity (2002). An American Werewolf in London (1981). Almost Famous (2000).

Othello (1981). Red Letters (2000). Logan's Run (1976). Family Guy (TV animated series, three episodes from 1999-2001). Shelley (BBC, 1972). The Sopranos (TV, appearing in three episodes in 1999 and 2001). Walkabout (1971). The Waterboy (1998).

The Railway Children (1970). American History X (1998). There's no Fish Food in Heaven (1998). American Perfekt (1997). The Maker (1997).

The Island of Doctor Moreau (1996). The Craft (1996). Shadow of a Doubt (1995, TV). Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995), alongside Andy Garcia.

Tollbooth (1994). Imaginary Crimes (1994). Murder in the Heartland (1993, TV). The Danger of Love (1992, TV).

Shame (1992, TV). Gas Food Lodging (1992). Deadly Intentions....Again (1991, TV). Valmont (1989).

The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick (1988). Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story (1987, TV), as Barbara Hutton at 12. Discovery (1986). The Worst Witch (1986, TV).

Deceptions (1986, TV). The Walt Disney Comedy and Magic Review (1985, video). Return to Oz (1985). The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (1983, TV).