1. Birgit Cunningham was born on 6 January 1963 and is a British-American events organiser, activist, and campaigner for the rights of single mothers.
17 Facts About Birgit Cunningham
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Birgit Cunningham was educated at Roedean, then earned a degree in history of art at Rutgers University.
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In 1987, Birgit Cunningham moved to Chelsea, London, and became a yacht broker in the City of London.
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Birgit Cunningham continued her "party-girl" ways in Los Angeles, dating American actor Kevin Costner for three years and, in 1996, marrying German actor Gedeon Burkhard in Las Vegas then soon divorcing him.
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Birgit Cunningham's binge drinking turned into alcoholism, one time drinking a bottle of tequila, becoming unconscious and found herself in hospital.
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In 1997, Birgit Cunningham returned to England, and joined Alcoholics Anonymous.
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Birgit Cunningham lived for a time in a commune in Devon, joining Greenpeace, and working for The Ecologist magazine and the Green Party.
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In February 2000, at a conference of the National Farmers' Union, as a protest against a financial crisis for small farmers, Birgit Cunningham squashed a chocolate eclair into the face of Nick Brown, the Labour government's Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
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Zac Goldsmith, editor of The Ecologist, commented that Birgit Cunningham was likely to be helping the magazine to hold its own conference on "the real farm crisis".
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In 2001 Birgit Cunningham took a job with the Green Party, working as senior press officer for the Green members of the newly established London Assembly.
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In England, Birgit Cunningham revived a relationship with Harry Nuttall, a racing driver from a rich family that she had dated before leaving for California.
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Birgit Cunningham became pregnant in October 2001, and their son Jack Cunningham-Nuttall was born in June 2002.
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Birgit Cunningham took her story to the press, and a long feature appeared in the Evening Standard the day before Nuttall's wedding, revealing the birth of their son.
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Birgit Cunningham took a one-year paralegal course at Westminster College, and alongside her own dispute over child support she began a long-running campaign to reform the child support system.
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Birgit Cunningham was charged with assault and appeared in a magistrate's court in November 2006, pleading "guilty as hell".
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In 2011 Birgit Cunningham was reported to be suffering from back pain caused by scoliosis and degenerative disc disease, diagnosed in 2006.
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Birgit Cunningham's son, Jack, is an actor who appeared as Young Hamlet in the 2018 film Ophelia.