Jessica Brown Findlay
English actress
My wedding day last year. It was supposed to be 4 April and, in the end, it was 12 September.
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Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The day my son was born.
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When I first met Richard, in 1992, on a British Council writers’ tour of Adelaide. We were drinking Australian lager while parakeets squawked rudely in the neighbourhood gumtrees.
Audra McDonald
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In the hospital giving birth to my second daughter with my first daughter right there in the room as it was happening. I don’t remember any pain. I just remember feeling more alive and full of fierce mama bear love than at any other point in my life.
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At the birth of my son, Joel, and then equally, last June, when my first grandchild, Rory, was born.
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