Bertie Carvel
British actor
I’m still working on it.
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Having a 23-year acting career with no qualifications.
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In 1999, the British Library auctioned off some of its newspaper holdings. My wife and I formed a non-profit and saved more than 20 tons of these irreplaceable bound newspapers, including the last intact run of Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World.
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