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Wendy Barrie
Acting
18 Apr 1912
† 02 Feb 1978
Hong Kong, British Crown Colony [now China]
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 professi...
Also Known As
Marguerite Wendy Jenkins, Маргарита Венди Дженкинс
































