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Place of Birth: Ireland
About Lucinda Riley
- Lucinda Riley (née Edmonds) (1966, Lisburn) is an Irish author of popular historical fiction and a former actress.
- She spent the first few years of her life in the village of Drumbeg near Belfast before moving to England.
- At age 14 she moved to London to a specialist drama and ballet school.
- At 16 she got her first major television role in the BBC adaptation of The Story of the Treasure Seekers, followed shortly afterwards by a memorable guest role in Auf Wiedersehen Pet.
- She remained a working actress for the next seven years, also marrying, but her career was interrupted by a long bout of mononucleosis at age 23.
- This caused her to turn to writing, and her first novel Lovers and Players was published in 1992.In 2016 producer Raffaella De Laurentiis purchased the television rights to her five-novel series Seven Sisters.
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