Edel Coffey
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144 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 2 Aug
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Yeah, she's certainly celebrated and very, very respected.
She's a really intellectual writer.
She's 59.
She's British.
She was born in Canada to British parents, raised in Britain and has lived in Paris since 2021.
She wrote novels in the 90s and then things kind of changed in the early noughties when she published her first work of nonfiction, which was A Life's Work, which she wrote about motherhood.
And that...
That got a huge response, wasn't it?
And then in 2012, she wrote about the breakdown of her marriage.
It was called Aftermath.
And that too, it was just... The issue seems to be that Cusk is incredibly honest and incredibly... And that can sometimes be read as incredibly cruel.
Yeah, because she's not...
Not just an actress.
She's a globally famous actress who came to fame as a child actress in a film that sort of sexualized this child, which Portman did as well in that film, Leon, when she was just, I think she was 11 when she played the role.
And she's also, the character M is also the face of a global population.
beauty brand.
Natalie Portman is the face of Miss Dior.
She also starred in a very famous film about a ballerina.
Natalie Portman won an Oscar for her performance in Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan.
So it's very difficult when all those details are taken together.
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