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Joan Bakewell

About the person
Career:

Acting

Date of birth:
1933-04-1693
Place of birth:

Stockport, Cheshire, England, UK

Gender:

Female

Popularity:

1

Biography

Joan Dawson Bakewell, Baroness Bakewell, DBE, HonFBA, is an English journalist, television presenter and Labour Party peer. Baroness Bakewell is President of Birkbeck, University of London; she is also an author and playwright, and has been awarded Humanist of the year for services to humanism.