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I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family.

Maureen Forrester

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Maureen Forrester
Age: 79 †
Born: 1930
Born: July 25
Died: 2010
Died: June 16
Actor
Biographer
Film Director
Musicologist
Opera Singer
Screenwriter
Singer
Montreal
Quebec
Maureen Kathleen Stewart Forrester
Lower
Middle
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Class
Family
Born
Montreal

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