Background
Sophie Parkin was born in London.
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She then attended Leeds Polytechnic (tutored by Jeff Nuttall), Maidstone College of Art, where she graduated with a Fine Art degree in 1982.
Career
She was schooled at Frensham Heights Boarding School and Burlington school in west London, then Camborne School of Mines, Pool, near Redruth, Cornwall. Sophie starred in many commercials as a girl, as varied as Wall"s sausages, Comfort fabric conditioner and as the Dulux girl. She has appeared in film recently, such as the Dylan Thomas biopic The Edge of Love, directed by John Maybury and starring Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller and Matthew Rhys.
She has also regularly written for British newspapers and periodicals, and appeared on television and radio as a broadcaster – most recently on Woman"s Hour on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4.
She writes regularly for 3:Department of Administration and Management Magazine. Her novels are All Grown Up (1998), Take Maine Home (1999) and Dear Goddess (2000).
She has also written the teen novels French for Kissing (2005), Best of Friends (2006), and Mad, Rich and Famous (2006). In 2013, she published a history of Soho"s The Colony Room.
She also teaches creative writing at Morley College, London.
She is the daughter of the artist Molly Parkin and art dealer Michael Parkin.
