Name |
Natasha Kaplinsky |
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Naionality |
British |
Date of Birth |
9 September 1972, |
Place of Birth |
Brighton, England, UK |
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Kaplinsky's parents are Raphael Kaplinsky, an exiled Jewish South African economics professor, and his wife Catherine, a psychotherapist.
The family originated from Poland and emigrated to South Africa in the late 1950s. Kaplinsky was born in Brighton, but spent her early life in Kenya, although she later returned to the United Kingdom, where she was brought up in Barcombe, Sussex. She attended Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls, an independent school in Elstree, near Borehamwood in Hertfordshire, the nearby Ringmer Community College, until the age of sixteen when she moved to Varndean College in Brighton.
After graduating in English from Hertford College, Oxford, one of her first jobs was working in the press offices of Labour leaders Neil Kinnock and John Smith.