Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
6/29/1921
Place of Birth
Brixton, London, England, UK
Also Known As
Joan Mildred SummerfieldJean CarrJoan Kent
Jean Kent
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jean Kent (29 June 1921 - 30 November 2013) was a British film actress.
She signed to Gainsborough Pictures during the Second World War. Kent's first good role in Two Thousand Women (1944), playing a stripper who is interned by the Germans. She was a Pacific Islander in Bees in Paradise (1944) with Arthur Askey and was the ingenue in a Tommy Trinder musical Champagne Charlie (1944).
The turning point in her career came when she was given a dramatic part in the Gainsborough melodrama film Fanny by Gaslight (1944). The movie established Kent as Gainsborou...
Known For
Bonjour Tristesse
as Mrs. Helen Lombard
Missing Persons
as Phillida Meadowhite
Waterloo Road
as Toni
The Woman in Question
as Agnes / Madame Astra / Parrot (voice)
Bond Street
as Ricki Merritt
Champagne Charlie
as Dolly Bellwood
Trottie True
as Trottie True
Carnival
as Irene Dale
The Browning Version
as Millie Crocker-Harris
The Wicked Lady
as Jackson's Doxy
Her Favourite Husband
as Dorothy Pellegrini
Shout at the Devil
as Mrs. Smythe
Sleeping Car to Trieste
as Valya
The Loves of Joanna Godden
as Ellen Godden
Web of Evidence
as Louise Burt
Caravan
as Rosal
The Prince and the Showgirl
as Maisie Springfield
Please Turn Over
as Janet Halliday
The Man Within
as Lucy
Fanny by Gaslight
as Lucy Beckett