Jennifer Kendal
{{short description|English actress (1934–1984)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Jennifer Kendal
| image = Jennifer Kendal Kapoor.jpg
| caption = Kendal in the film Junoon (1978)
| birth_name = Jennifer Kendal
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1933|02|28}}
| birth_place = Southport, Lancashire, England
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|1984|09|7|1933|02|27}}
| death_place = London, England
| occupation = Actress
| spouse = {{marriage|Shashi Kapoor|1958}}
| parents = Geoffrey Kendal
Laura Liddell
| children = Kunal Kapoor
Karan Kapoor
Sanjana Kapoor
| relatives = Felicity Kendal (sister)
See also Kapoor family
}}
Jennifer Kendal Kapoor (28 February 1933 – 7 September 1984){{cite web |url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f12e269 |title=Jennifer Kendal |website=British Film Institute |access-date=28 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171213163253/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f12e269 |archive-date=13 December 2017}} was an English actress and the founder of the Prithvi Theatre. She was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for the film 36 Chowringhee Lane (1981). Her other film appearances included Bombay Talkie (1970), Junoon (1978), Heat and Dust (1983), and Ghare Baire (1984).
Childhood
Jennifer Kendal was born in Southport, England, but spent much of her youth in India. She and younger sister Felicity Kendal were born to Geoffrey Kendal and Laura Liddell, who ran a travelling theatre company, Shakespeareana, which travelled around India as depicted in the book and film, Shakespeare Wallah (1965) in which Kendal appeared, uncredited, and which starred her husband Shashi Kapoor, her parents and her sister.{{cite web| url = https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/blink/cover/the-wandering-players/article8505050.ece/| title = The wandering players}}
Work and Shashi Kapoor
Shashi Kapoor and Kendal met for the first time in Calcutta, in 1956, where he was part of the Prithvi Theatre company, while she was playing Miranda in the play The Tempest, as part of Shakespeareana.{{usurped|[https://web.archive.org/web/20100805231813/http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2004/09/06/stories/2004090600840300.htm A question of pedigree]}} The Hindu, 6 September 2004. Soon, Shashi Kapoor also began to tour with the Shakespeareana Company,[http://www.junglee.org.in/jennifer.html Jennifer Biography] and the couple married in July 1958. Kendal and her husband were also instrumental in the rejuvenation of Prithvi Theatre in Mumbai, with the opening of their theatre in the Juhu area of the city in 1978.{{cite news |title=Prithvi, pioneer in theatre |url=http://www.hindu.com/fr/2003/11/07/stories/2003110701340600.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040101014620/http://www.hindu.com/fr/2003/11/07/stories/2003110701340600.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=1 January 2004 |work=The Hindu |date=7 November 2003}} Kendal and Kapoor also starred in a number of films together, particularly those produced by Merchant Ivory Productions. Their first joint starring roles were in Bombay Talkie (1970), which was also one of the earlier films produced by Merchant Ivory.{{citation needed|date=May 2015}}
Personal life
She had three children with her husband: sons Kunal Kapoor and Karan Kapoor, and daughter Sanjana Kapoor; all are former Hindi actors.[http://www.news18.com/photogallery/movies/in-pics-meet-shashi-kapoors-family-992937-10.html Meet the Kapoors], Network 18.
In 1982, she was diagnosed with terminal colon cancer and subsequently died of the disease in 1984.
Filmography
= Actress =
- Shakespeare Wallah (1965) – Mrs Bowen (uncredited)[https://web.archive.org/web/20090208230417/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/36879/Jennifer-Kapoor Jennifer Kapoor – Filmography] The New York Times
- Bombay Talkie (1970) – Lucia Lane
- Junoon (1978) – Miriam Labadoor (Ruth's Mother)
- 36 Chowringhee Lane (1981) Miss Violet Stoneham
- Heat and Dust (1983) – Mrs Saunders
- The Far Pavilions (1984) – Mrs Viccary
- Ghare-Baire (1984) – Miss Gilby (The Home and the World)
- Saptapadi (1961 Bengali film) - as Desdemona (voice-over)
=Costume Design=
Awards
- 1980: Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress – Junoon – Nominated
- 1982: Evening Standard British Film Awards – Best Actress: 36 Chowringhee Lane – Won
- 1983: BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role – 36 Chowringhee Lane – Nominated[http://www.bafta.org/awards/film/nominations/?year=1982 Bafta Awards Nominations 1982] British Academy Film Awards official website.
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20171213163253/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f12e269 Jennifer Kendal] at the British Film Institute
- {{IMDb name|id=0447557|name=Jennifer Kendal}}
- [http://www.junglee.org.in/jennifer.html Biography from The Kapoor Family website]
- [https://archive.today/20130203235628/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050218/asp/etc/story_4371945.asp She didn’t really look at me: Shashi Kapoor recounts his and Jennifer Kendal’s first, and lasting, meeting in Calcutta to Deepa Gahlot] – The Telegraph
{{Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Actress}}
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Category:Actresses from Southport
Category:English theatre managers and producers
Category:British women theatre managers and producers
Category:English film actresses
Category:English stage actresses
Category:English emigrants to India
Category:Deaths from cancer in England
Category:Actresses in Hindi cinema
Category:Actresses in Bengali cinema
Category:British expatriate actresses in India