Early Life
Spencer is the daughter of Australian songwriter, singer and television entertainer Don Spencer and his wife Julie (née Horsfall), an English caterer from Yorkshire. She has an older brother, Dean. At the age of four she started to take piano lessons. During her teens she began acting and composing her first self invented tunes. Until the age of twelve she spent her childhood and youth alternately in Australia and in Yorkshire and Cambridgeshire, England, as her father worked in both countries for the BBC Play School.
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