Patti LuPone: When were you happiest?

When were you happiest?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.

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Recorded Patti LuPone said elsewhere, not written here

Filming Penny Dreadful for five months in the Republic of Ireland, sublime land of faeries and spontaneous song.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2024 source ↗

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Edwina Currie Former British politician, broadcaster and writer

I am happy now.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 June 2017 source ↗

Johanna Konta British tennis player

When I was a young girl in Sydney, I used to go running with my dad. I would wake him up at the crack of dawn and we had this route to the top of a golf course – we’d usually make it there for sunrise.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 June 2018 source ↗

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Well, I’m happiest on Martha’s Vineyard, between July 1 and Labor Day, riding my tricycle with Larry Bobo every afternoon and fishing with Buddy Vanderhoop. But I was happiest from my childhood through high school in Piedmont, West Virginia; it was magical. I was sorry when it was time to go off to college.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2019 source ↗

Kellie Maloney Retired boxing manager, promoter and politician

At the birth of my children; when Lennox Lewis was crowned undisputed world heavyweight champion; and the day I had my final gender reassignment operation.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 August 2024 source ↗