Sabrina Jane, Lady Stoppard (née Guinness; born 9 January 1955) is a British-Irish television producer.

Background

Sabrina Guinness is the eldest child (of four daughters and a son) of James Edward Alexander Rundell Guinness

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(1924–2006), of Coldpiece Farm, Hound Green, near

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, a Second World War veteran of the

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, and a banker with Guinness Mahon, the

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, and the Provident Mutual Life Assurance Association (now

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), also Chairman of the

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1970–90, and Pauline Vivien (1926–2017), daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Howard Vivien Mander, MC, of Congreve Manor,

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, Staffordshire, a director of his family's business,

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. Guinness is a member of the "banking line" of the

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, founders of Guinness Mahon in 1836, which descends from Samuel Guinness (1727–1795), the brother of

Arthur Guinness Arthur Guinness ( 172523 January 1803) was an Irish brewer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. The inventor of Guinness beer, he founded the Guinness Brewery at St. James's Gate in 1759. Born in Celbridge, County Kildare around 1725, Guinness' ...

.Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 2, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 1697 Guinness has a twin sister, journalist Miranda; her other siblings are the artist and writer Hugo Guinness; Anita Guinness, wife of the late Hon.

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; and philanthropist

Julia Samuel Julia Aline Samuel (née Guinness; born 12 September 1959) is a British psychotherapist and paediatric counsellor. Early life Samuel is the daughter of James Edward Alexander Rundell Guinness (1924–2006), a banker, and his wife, the former Pa ...

, a psychotherapist and paediatric counsellor and co-founder of Child Bereavement UK, who married the Hon. Michael Samuel, of the

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banking family, and son of Peter Samuel, 4th Viscount Bearsted, Deputy Chairman of Shell Transport and Trading.

Career

Sabrina Guinness founded the London-based charity Youth Cable Television (YCTV), which she established in 1995 with the help of

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. The charity trains disadvantaged youth to work in television production. She previously worked as PA for

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, the founder of the

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(SAS).

Personal life

Guinness was once dubbed "the It Girl of her generation" for her high-profile romantic liaisons. In 1979, she had a relationship with

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. In 2014 she married playwright Sir

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. They live in

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; she also has a ''

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'' in

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, west London.

References

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