Early Life
As a result of her father's work as a civil engineer she spent her childhood moving from country to country, including spells in Algeria, Kuwait, Nigeria, Singapore and England. Her mother, Karen, died of cancer, aged 52, in Redcar and Cleveland just before O'Brien was confirmed for a part in SMart, in 1999. She has a younger brother, Tim.
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“Many a woman shudders ... at the terrible eclipse of those intellectual powers which in early life seemed prophetic of usefulness and happiness, hence the army of martyrs among our married and unmarried women who, not having cultivated a taste for science, art or literature, form a corps of nervous patients who make fortunes for agreeable physicians ...”
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