Personal Background and Family Life
Douglas Hodge was born in 1960, in Plymouth, Devon.
One of his grandmothers was blind, and he is a celebrity supporter of the Royal National Institute of Blind People and its "Talking Books" project and is a regular reader of BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime. He has an older brother who "manages a construction firm." He and his family moved to Wigmore near Gillingham, Kent during the 1960s. He attended Fairview Primary School and from there the Howard School in nearby Rainham.
His partner is actress Tessa Peake-Jones, and they have two children. They live near Oxford.
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