Personal details
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Born
16 April 1933 (93)
Place of birth
Stockport, Cheshire, England, UK
Biography
Joan Dawson Bakewell, Baroness Bakewell, DBE, HonFBA, is an English journalist, television presenter and Labour Party peer. Baroness Bakewell is President of Birkbeck, University of London; she is also an author and playwright, and has been awarded Humanist of the year for services to humanism.
