Fay Ripley

Fay Ripley is an English actress and recipe author. She is a graduate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama . Her first professional role was in the chorus of a pantomime version of Around the World in 80 Days. Ripleys early film and television appearances were limited, so she supplemented her earnings by working as a childrens entertainer and by selling menswear doortodoor. After her scenes as a prostitute were cut from Frankenstein , Ripley gained her first major film role playing Karen Hughes in Mute Witness .

Ripley was born in Wimbledon, southwest London to Bev William Deacon Ripley and Tina Ripley onFebruary 1966. Her father was a successful businessman the son of Sydney William Leonard Ripley J.P., D.L., a member of Greater London Council, whose father had owned a printing company that produced movie posters and brother of 1960s pop singer Twinkle, and her mother an antiques dealer. They separated when Ripley was two years old and both remarried, so Ripley spent her childhood moving around Surrey between two families. She was the only child from her parents marriage but had several halfbrothers and sisters from their new relationships. In her early life, she lived in various Surrey towns, including WaltononThames, Weybridge, Esher and Cobham. Her father wanted her to have a good education so, despite the familys Protestant religion, sent her to various Catholic convent schools around the county. One was St Maurs Convent School in Weybridge, which she attended with Liza Tarbuck. Ripl

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