Jennifer Thanisch is a native of Laleham, Middlesex, where her parents owned the Three Horseshoes, a public house.
[2] Her first role was in the 1973 film Dark Places, which starred Christopher Lee and Joan Collins.
Married with two grown-up children, she lives today in Lewes, Sussex[3][4][5] and is a religious education teacher in a primary school.
[6] In late 2008 she was reunited with her fellow Famous Five co-star Marcus Harris for an item celebrating fifty years of ITV in the south of England and which was broadcast on the regional news programmes Meridian Tonight and Thames Valley Tonight.
In February 2011 Sunshine Hospital Radio brought Jennifer together with Gary Russell (Dick), Marcus Harris (Julian) and series writer and BAFTA award winner Gail Renard for their first group interview in over 30 years.