Family and Personal Life
Hughes is the daughter of poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Her mother was one of the most influential poets of the century and her father was the British poet laureate from 1984 until his death. Her mother committed suicide when Frieda was almost three; her father died of cancer in 1998. Hughes' brother, Nicholas Hughes, committed suicide on 16 March 2009.
Hughes was born in London. She moved to Perth, Western Australia in 1988, and later settled in Wooroloo, a small hamlet north of Perth, in 1991, where the Australian landscape became the basis of much of her painting. She became an Australian citizen in 1992.
Hughes was married to farmworker Desmond Dawe from 1979 to 1982. Her second husband was real estate agent Clive Anderson. Thirdly, she married Hungarian artist Laszlo Lukacs in 1996; they divorced in 2010 after a year-long separation.
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