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I am always interested in affecting people in some way, making them think about particular areas of history that they have never thought about or that they may have thought about in one way and then changing their view.

Naomie Harris

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Naomie Harris
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: September 6
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Naomie Melanie Harris
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