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Yes, I was slightly outside everything when I was growing up. My mother jokes that I was exchanged at birth. She brought us up to have traditional values. She was absolutely not part of the '60s generation.

Janet McTeer

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Janet McTeer
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: May 8
Actor
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Film Actor
Stage Actor
Newcastle
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