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I already feel a bit annoyed at myself for writing screenplays. It's a bit, I don't know, model-singer-dancer-actress that went to a posh school. There's something too weirdly predictable about it.

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Emily Mortimer
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: December 1
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