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10 Facts About Rebecca Frayn

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Rebecca Frayn is an English documentary film maker, screenwriter, novelist and actress.

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Rebecca Frayn has directed a wide variety of quirky documentary essays for the BBC, Channel 4 and ITV on subjects that range from Tory Wives to the Friern Barnet Mental Asylum and identical twins.

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Rebecca Frayn played the role of June in the 1979 TV movie One Fine Day, directed by Stephen Frears and starring Robert Stephens and Dominic Guard.

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Rebecca Frayn appeared uncredited as the photograph image by Denis O'Regan of Liam Neeson's character's dead wife, Joanna, in the film Love Actually, directed by Richard Curtis.

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Rebecca Frayn's second novel, Deceptions, is a psychological thriller, inspired by a true story; it explores the impact on a family when a child goes missing.

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Rebecca Frayn wrote the screenplay for the 2020 film Misbehaviour, that deals with the controversy surrounding the 1970 Miss World competition, and the birth of feminism.

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Rebecca Frayn graduated from the University of Bristol in 1984.

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Rebecca Frayn married film producer Andy Harries in July 1992 and they have three children: twin sons, Jack Harries and Finn Harries, and a daughter Emmy.

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Rebecca Frayn had to undergo IVF to have her daughter, an experience which inspired her novel One Life.

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Rebecca Frayn has served as chair of Turnham Green Friends, a group that helps to care for the park of that name in Chiswick.