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| Born | Chantal Sophia Dahl (1957-04-11)11 April 1957 (age 68) Oxford, England |
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| Partner | Julian Holloway (1976) |
| Children | 4, includingSophie Dahl |
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Chantal Sophia "Tessa"Dahl (born 11 April 1957) is a British author and former actress. She is the daughter of British-Norwegian authorRoald Dahl and American actressPatricia Neal.
Dahl was born atJohn Radcliffe Hospital inOxford, the second daughter of British authorRoald Dahl and American actressPatricia Neal;[1] her elder sisterOlivia died frommeasles in 1962. She grew up inGreat Missenden,Buckinghamshire, and attendedRoedean andDowne House schools, the Elizabeth Russell Cookery School and theHerbert Bergof Acting Studio.
Dahl has worked as an actress, modelled, worked at an antique shop, worked at an employment agency and written articles forTatler before publishing her first novel, thesemi-autobiographicalWorking For Love, in 1988.[2] Dahl became an author of children's fiction. Her bookGwenda and the Animals won theFriends of the Earth Best Children's Book of the Year.
Dahl's relationship with actorJulian Holloway produced one daughter, model and authorSophie Dahl; the couple separated shortly afterwards.[3] She subsequently married businessman James Kelly and had two children, Clover and Luke. She then married businessman Patrick Donovan (deceased on 7 February 2021), son of AmbassadorFrancis Patrick Donovan, and had one son, Ned, a journalist. In 2019, the Jordanian royal court announced Ned's engagement toPrincess Raiyah bint Hussein, the youngest daughter ofKing Hussein I of Jordan andQueen Noor, the daughter ofNajeeb Halaby; they married in 2020.[citation needed] Tessa Dahl has also had relationships withPeter Sellers,David Hemmings,Bryan Ferry,Brian de Palma andDai Llewellyn.[4][5]
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