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Birthplace:
London, England
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Trained in the British TV industry, Beeban Kidron has come to specialize in modest, eccentric character- driven comedy-dramas, often dealing with relationships between women. A runaway at 17, she worked as a stripper before becoming a prize-winning photographer while still in her teens. Kidron began her filmmaking career helming a fiction short ("Alex" 1985) before co-directing (with Amanda Richardson) "Carry Greenham Home" (1984), a political documentary about a group of women encamped at the Greenham Nuclear Power Plant to promote nuclear disarmament. Kidron was so committed to this school
1972
Family friend gave her a camera to distract her during a lengthy recuperation from surgery at age 11 (date approximate)
1978
Ran away from home at age 17 (date approximate)
Began career as prize-winning photographer in her teens
Worked for two years as assistant to Magnum photographer Eve Arnold
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