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Joan Bakewell
Acting Born: April 16, 1933 • 92 years old • Stockport, Cheshire, England, UK
Biography
Joan Dawson Bakewell, Baroness Bakewell, DBE, HonFBA, is an English journalist, television presenter and Labour Party peer. Baroness Bakewell is President of Birkbeck, University of London; she is also an author and playwright, and has been awarded Humanist of the year for services to humanism.
