Katherine Parkinson
English actor
An astronaut. I still do.
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Housewife and mother of three, which I am now.
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Warm and fuzzy.
I don’t have anything that I want to change. I’m sure I did in the past but I can’t recall, which means it wasn’t that big a deal.
Tidying fanatic.
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