Jenny Agutter: When were you happiest?

When were you happiest?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Jenny Agutter said elsewhere, not written here

Last night, having dinner with my husband, John, my son, Jonathan, and his girlfriend, Maude.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 January 2018 source ↗

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Vanessa Redgrave British actress and activist

Is all happiness in the past? Well, the births of three children. And playing with children and grandchildren.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 September 2018 source ↗

Brooke Shields

On a beach, watching my girls do cartwheels, with a Goombay Smash with a floater on top.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2025 source ↗

Julie Andrews English actress, singer and author

In London. When Blake [Edwards, her husband since 1969] made me laugh so much I wept. Blake says I slept with a smile.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2008 source ↗

Simon Russell Beale English actor

The morning after the opening of Hamlet in New York in 2000. The reviews were good and I actually punched the air – a very un-Simon Russell Beale thing to do.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 January 2011 source ↗