Childhood
Jennifer Kendal was born in Southport, England, but spent much of her youth in India. Her parents (she was the elder daughter of Geoffrey Kendal and Laura Liddell and elder sister of Felicity Kendal), ran a travelling theatre company, "Shakespeareana", which traveled around India as described in the book and film, Shakespeare Wallah (in which Kendal appeared and which starred her husband Shashi Kapoor, her parents and her sister Felicity).
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