Born Free Foundation - Keep Wildlife in the Wild

Jenny, Trustee and Patron of Born Free, was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and is an English actress.  She rose to fame playing the lead in a TV dramatisation of Barbara Taylor Bradford's A Woman of Substance and the 1983 film Local Hero. She is presently playing the character of Jo Mills in the long-running BBC drama series Judge John Deed (2001-07).

Jenny first became involved with Born Free in 1996 with the rescue of two lions from a squalid zoo in Belgium and from that point her passion and clarity have made her a committed supporter of various campaigns.

Most recently Jenny fronted a high profile media campaign with GMTV and the Sunday Mirror to rescue three lions from long-term captivity in a beast wagon in a French circus to Born Free’s sanctuary at the Shamwari Wildlife Reserve in South Africa.  “I dream that one day there will be no zoos or circuses, that people will be enlightened and cruelty a thing of the past.”