Known For: British model, actress and singer (born 1949)
Category: Actresses
Occupation: actor, model, singer, stage actor, film actor
Country: United Kingdom
City: Neasden
Date of Birth: Monday, 19 September 1949
Language English
Also known as Twiggy
Dame Lesley Lawson, widely known by the nickname Twiggy, is an English model, actress, and singer. She was a British cultural icon and a prominent teenage model during the swinging '60s in London.
| BirthPlace | Neasden |
| Education | Q6925843 |
| Awards | Q12201434 |
| Spouses | Michael Witney, Leigh Lawson |
| Wikipedia | Twiggy |
Lesley Hornby was born on 19 September 1949 and raised in Neasden (originally in Middlesex, now a suburb of north-west London). She was the third daughter of Nellie Lydia (née Reeman), a factory worker for a printing firm, and William Norman Hornby, a master carpenter and joiner from Lancashire. Their first daughter, Shirley, had been born 15 years earlier; their second, Vivien, had been born 7 years earlier. According to Twiggy, her maternal grandfather was Jewish. However, her mother's genealogy, which was examined on the series Who Do You Think You Are? in 2014, does not contain Jewish ancestry. Twiggy's mother taught her to sew from an early age. She used this skill to make her own clothing. She attended the Brondesbury and Kilburn High School.
