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- Birth nameWinifred Mary Beard
- Mary Beard was born on January 1, 1955 in Much Wenlock, Shropshire, England, UK. She is a writer and actress, known for Sultana's Dream (2023), W1A (2014) and Meet the Romans with Mary Beard (2012).
- She was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2013 Queen's New Years Honours list for her services to Classical Scholarship. She is the Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England.
- Professor of Classics at Newnham College, Cambridge.
- She was awarded the Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to the Study of Classical Civilization. She is the Professor Classics at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England.
- Cambridgeshire, England: Professor of Classics.
- Most women over 50 know what women over 50 look like. And they look like me. They can pretend like they don't, but really they look like me. I'm a classicist, not an autocue girl.
- [on getting death threats via social media] I've been around long enough to know that most people, if they want to kill you, they don't send you a tweet first.
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