British women memoirists

The list British women memoirists includes Olivia Hussey, Julie Andrews, Caroline Cossey, Kate O'Mara and Emily Lloyd. The list consists of 212 members and 2 sublists.

British women diarists
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Women memoirists from Northern Ireland
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- Hazel Crane
- Patricia Craig (writer)

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Lily Allen

Singer-songwriter

Overview: Lily Rose Beatrice Allen (born 2 May 1985) is an English singer, songwriter, and author. She is the daughter of actor Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen. Allen left school when she was 15 and c ...

Date of birth: 2 May 1985

Age: 39

Nationality: British

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 2" (157 cm)

Partner: David Harbour (Married)

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Electropop musicians 36T

21st-century British women singers 61T

Women's Equality Party people 17T
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Olivia Hussey

British actress

Overview: Olivia Hussey (born Olivia Osuna, 17 April 1951) is an English actress. After appearing in theatre in London, Hussey was chosen to play the role of Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli's film version of Romeo and ...

Date of birth: 17 April 1951

Age: 73

Nationality: Argentinean

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 2" (157 cm)

Partner: David Glen Eisley (Married)

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21st-century English memoirists 177T

21st-century English women writers 623T

English Shakespearean actresses 160T
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Sarah Harding

English singer, model, and actress (1981–2021)

Overview: Sarah Harding (born Sarah Nicole Hardman; 17 November 1981 – 5 September 2021) was an English singer, model and actress. Her professional career began in 2002 when she successfully auditioned for the ITV ...

Date of birth: 17 November 1981

Date of death: 5 September 2021

Age: 39 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

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Deaths from breast cancer in the United Kingdom 93T

Actors from Ascot, Berkshire 6T

Actresses from Stockport 24T
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Julie Andrews

British actress, singer and author (born 1935)

Overview: Dame Julie Andrews DBE (born Julia Elizabeth Wells; 1 October 1935) is an English actress, singer, and author. She has garnered numerous accolades throughout her career spanning over seven decades, in ...

Date of birth: 1 October 1935

Age: 88

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

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Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement recipients 95T

21st-century English memoirists 135T

BAFTA Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles winners 33T
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Kate O'Mara

English actress (1939–2014)

Overview: Kate O'Mara (born Francesca Meredith Carroll; 10 August 1939 – 30 March 2014) was an English film, stage and television actress, and writer. O'Mara made her stage debut in a 1963 production of The Merchant ...

Date of birth: 10 August 1939

Date of death: 30 March 2014

Age: 74 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)

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20th-century English women writers 774T

English women non-fiction writers 440T

20th-century British women writers 1,400T
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Fiona Lewis

British actor

Overview: Fiona Lewis (born 28 September 1946) is a British actress and writer from Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex.

Date of birth: 28 September 1946

Age: 77

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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Writers from Essex 24T

British film actresses 655T

Date of birth missing (living people) 2,589T
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Dawn French

British comedian

Overview: Dawn Roma French (born 11 October 1957) is a British actress, comedian, and writer. She is known for writing and starring on the BBC sketch comedy series French and Saunders (1987–2007) with her best friend ...

Date of birth: 11 October 1957

Age: 66

Nationality: British

Occupation: Comedian

Gender: Female

Height: 5' (152 cm)

Partner: Mark Bignell (Married)

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British sitcom actresses 10T

21st-century British memoirists 50T

Actors from Anglesey 6T
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Sophie Ellis-Bextor

British singer (born 1979)

Overview: Sophie Michelle Ellis-Bextor (born 10 April 1979) is an English singer and songwriter. She first came to prominence in the late 1990s, as the lead singer of the indie rock band Theaudience. After the group ...

Date of birth: 10 April 1979

Age: 45

Nationality: British

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)

Partner: Richard Jones (Married)

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English female DJs 15T

The Masked Singer (British TV series) contestants 19T

21st-century English women singers 582T
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Ida Lupino

British actress and filmmaker (1918–1995)

Overview: Ida Lupino (4 February 1918 – 3 August 1995) was an English-American actress, singer, director, and producer. She is widely regarded as one of the most prominent female filmmakers working during the 1950s ...

Date of birth: 4 February 1918

Date of death: 3 August 1995

Age: 77 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)

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20th-century memoirists 804T

Actresses of Irish descent 597T

American women memoirists 620T
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Natascha McElhone

English actress (born 1969)

Overview: Natascha Abigail Taylor (born 14 December 1969), known professionally as Natascha McElhone (), is a British actress. She is a graduate of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. In film, she is best ...

Date of birth: 14 December 1971

Age: 52

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)

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21st-century English memoirists 154T

21st-century English women writers 577T

Actresses of Irish descent 598T
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Katy Wix

Actress

Overview: Katy Wix (born 28 February 1980) is a Welsh actress and comedian. She is best known for her television roles as Daisy in Not Going Out, Carole in Stath Lets Flats, Mary in Ghosts and Sarah Ferguson in ...

Date of birth: 28 February 1980

Age: 44

Nationality: Welsh

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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Actresses from Cardiff 20T

Actors from Cardiff 28T

21st-century Welsh actresses 48T
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Emily Lloyd

Actress

Overview: Emily Lloyd-Pack (born 29 September 1970), known as Emily Lloyd, is an English actress. At the age of 16, she starred in her debut and breakthrough role in the 1987 film Wish You Were Here, for which she ...

Date of birth: 29 September 1970

Age: 53

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)

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People with obsessive–compulsive disorder 68T

Women memoirists 1,131T

Actresses from London 1,257T
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Virginia Woolf

English modernist writer (1882–1941)

Overview: Adeline Virginia Woolf (née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th century authors and also a pioneer in the use ...

Date of birth: 25 January 1882

Date of death: 28 March 1941

Age: 59 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Author

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

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Pipe smokers 77T

Lost Generation writers 38T

20th-century LGBT people 3,252T
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Margaret Thatcher

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990

Overview: Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, DStJ, PC, FRS, HonFRSC (née Roberts; 13 October 1925 – 8 April 2013) was a British stateswoman who served as Prime Minister ...

Date of birth: 13 October 1925

Date of death: 8 April 2013

Age: 87 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Government

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

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20th-century women prime ministers 25T

20th-century English women lawyers 4T

20th-century British women lawyers 86T
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Julie Dawn Cole

British actress (born 1957)

Overview: Julie Dawn Cole (born 26 October 1957) is an English actress. She began her career as a child performer in the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, playing Veruca Salt.

Date of birth: 26 October 1957

Age: 66

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)

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Actors from Guildford 20T

21st-century English women writers 505T

21st-century memoirists 367T
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Agatha Christie

English author

Overview: Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (née Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly ...

Date of birth: 15 September 1890

Date of death: 12 January 1976

Age: 85 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)

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British women historical novelists 1T

British women mystery writers 116T

British ghost story writers 73T
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Sofia Hayat

British, Actress

Overview: Sofia Hayat is a British singer, actress and television personality known for her appearances in Indian television and cinema. She participated in Bigg Boss 7, the Indian version of Big Brother, in 2013 ...

Date of birth: 6 December 1974

Age: 49

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

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21st-century Indian nuns 9T

21st-century British memoirists 50T

21st-century British nuns 3T
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Sue Perkins

British actress and comedian (born 1969)

Overview: Susan Elizabeth Perkins (born 22 September 1969) is an English actress, broadcaster, comedian, presenter and writer. Originally coming to prominence through her comedy partnership with Mel Giedroyc in ...

Date of birth: 22 September 1969

Age: 54

Nationality: British

Occupation: Comedian

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)

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Lesbian comedians 83T

21st-century English comedians 271T

20th-century English comedians 264T
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Carol Drinkwater

Actress and author

Overview: Carol Drinkwater (born 22 April 1948) is an Anglo-Irish actress, author and filmmaker. She portrayed Helen Herriot (née Alderson) in the television adaptation of the James Herriot books All Creatures Great ...

Date of birth: 30 April 1948

Age: 76

Nationality: British

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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British women children's writers 168T

Women writers for children 986T

Women memoirists 1,131T
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Grace Coddington

Welsh former model and creative director

Overview: Pamela Rosalind Grace Coddington (born 20 April 1941), known as Grace Coddington, is a Welsh former model and former creative director at large of American Vogue magazine. Coddington is known for the ...

Date of birth: 14 April 1941

Age: 83

Nationality: Welsh

Occupation: Editor

Gender: Female

Partner: Didier Malige (Long-Term)

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21st-century Welsh women writers 73T

Creative directors 85T

Women magazine editors 612T