Jacqueline du Pré

Acting

Born: 1945-01-26 · Oxford, England, UK

Jacqueline du Pré, was born into a middle-class English family in Oxford on 26 January 1945. Hers was a musical household, and at the age of four the young Jackie was famously struck by the sound of a cello playing on the radio. She told her mother, ‘I want to make that sound'. Cello and piano less…