William Kenwright was born in Liverpool and attended Booker Avenue County Primary School, and then Liverpool Institute High School for Boys from 1957 to 1964.
He was also the chairman of Everton Football Club for two decades, from 2004 until he died in 2023.
As a young man he became an actor. His early successes included a role in Coronation Street as Gordon Clegg, who was introduced in April 1968. Kenwright left the show after a year to pursue his producing career in March 1969.
Who is Bill Kenwright’s partner Jenny Seagrove?
Kenwright was awarded the CBE for his services to film and theatre in the 2001 New Year’s Honours List, Until Kenwright died in 2023, he was in a long-term relationship with the actress Jenny Seagrove, with the couple residing in London.
Jennifer Ann Seagrove is an English actress. She trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and first came to attention playing the lead in a television dramatization of Barbara Taylor Bradford’s A Woman of Substance (1984) and the film Local Hero (1983).
