Heartbreak for Call the Midwife star Jenny Agutter as beloved husband of 35 years dies after cancer battle

The pair welcomed a son named Jonathan shortly after marrying
CALL the Midwife star Jenny Agutter’s husband, Johan Tham, has passed away aged 81.

The Swedish property entrepreneur and hotelier, married TV star Jenny Agutter in 1990.

Tham, who was best known for restoring Grade I listed Cliveden House, passed away away on November 17 after a battle with cancer.

After marrying at Cliveden, the pair went on to welcome a son, Jonathan, who is a GP.

Speaking about her first meeting with Johan, Jenny said: “One of the things about meeting people and forming relationships as an actor is that others have an idea of who you are before they meet you.

“That’s hard in any relationship, particularly with men. 

“When Johan and I met, I did not feel he had any sense of who I was at all, but he wanted to find out, and that made a big difference.

“I’m still finding out about him 31 years on.”

Johan was born in 1944 in Nyköping, Sweden, before his family moved to England when he was four years old.

He had an older sister, Christina, and older twin brothers, Sebastian and Peter.

He attended Heatherdown School before boarding at Charterhouse and going to university.

In 1978, Johan and a businessman named John Lewis formed Blakeney Hotels.

He then became managing director of Cliveden House in Buckinghamshire, setting about transforming it into a high-end hotel in 1984.

In 2011, Cliveden was sold to property developer brothers Ian and Richard Livingston.

Tham had two stepchildren and a daughter, Johanna, now a special needs teacher with his first wife Anna Lallerstedt.

The couple divorced and in 1989 he met Jenny Agutter at an arts festival in Bath.  

Tham and Agutter were married for 35 years, he is survived by his son Jonathan and his daughter Johanna.