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Rebecca Pidgeon
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Composer (Music Score), Actor Born: 1963 in Cambridge, MA Biography:Though she also has a successful recording career as a jazz/folk singer/songwriter, actress "Rebecca Pidgeon" is perhaps more familiar for her work with her husband, hard-edged playwright/filmmaker "David Mamet". Born in Massachusetts and raised in Scotland, Pidgeon studied acting at London's prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. Along with performing on stage in Great Britain, Pidgeon made her film debut acting with "Trevor Howard", "Anthony Hopkins", and "Hugh Grant" in the 1920s-set Irish political drama "The Dawning" (1989). Further burnishing her thespian resumé, Pidgeon appeared in the BBC TV film "She's Been Away" (1990) with "Dame Peggy Ashcroft" and co-starred as Sonya in a TV version of Anton Chekov's "Uncle Vanya" (1991). Pidgeon's career came to a key turning point, however, after she starred in the London premiere of "David Mamet"'s play Speed-the-Plow. Marrying Mamet in 1991,... Full Biography
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