Tracy-Ann Oberman
Actor and writer
Our family song – Three Is A Magic Number, which my husband played me on the way back from the maternity hospital.
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Amazing Grace, on bagpipes.
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Griff Rhys Jones
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No songs, please. Don’t make a fuss.
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Les Fleurs by Minnie Riperton.
David Guetta
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I Gotta Feeling.
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View profile →My buddy Kenny Laguna. He’s a person of extraordinary character, he’s intelligent, and a very good friend.
I had a cafeteria job, serving food, and some people were really nasty. There was a stack of nice, cool plates, and a stack of hotter plates that had just come out of the kitchen. So, if a person was an arsehole, I’d hand them a hot plate with a smile and watch them deal with it.
An astronaut, an archaeologist, an actor, and a musician.
My teenage years in the Runaways: I was still naive enough to think good things about the world and life and people, and I was having fun playing rock’n’roll around the world, living the dream.
My electric car: it’s a hybrid Cadillac.
I don’t think I’d change anything: the bad forms you more than the good.
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