Wendy Barrie Wendy Barrie Wendy Barrie (born Marguerite Wendy Jenkins, 18 April 1912 – 2 February 1978) was a British-American film and television actress. Barrie was born in Hong Kong to English parents. Her father was a successful lawyer and King's Counsel, F.C. Jenkins. She received her education at a convent school in England and a finishing school in Switzerland. While still in her teens, she began pursuing a career as an actress, helped by her red-gold hair and blue eyes. She adopted the stage name Wendy Barrie in honour of "Peter Pan" author J.M. Barrie, who was her godfather. She began
Wendy Holden (author, born 1965) Divine". "Simply Divine" was published in 1999, and Holden went on to write a series of novels, most of which were bestsellers, and which she happily describes as "chick lit" and "supermarket novels." Holden is married, has two children, and now lives in the Derbyshire Peak District. Wendy Holden (author, born 1965) Wendy Holden (born 12 June 1965) is a best-selling British novelist. Holden was born and raised in Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire. She read English at Girton College, Cambridge, graduating from Cambridge University in the mid-1980s, and then moved to London where she found work in the magazine business, eventually