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Hart and Saatchi have two sons and divide their time between homes in England and France.

Hart during her first Communion at age seven in her hometown of Mullingar, Ireland.

A twelve-year-old Hart riding a pony during a visit to the Dublin Zoo.

Hart's school picture, taken in Ireland during the 1960s. She is sitting on the nun's immediate left. Hart moved to London later in the decade.

Hart in Dublin, Ireland, where she was judging the 1992 Irish Times International Fiction Prize. The winner that year was
Mating
by Norman Rush.

Maurice Saatchi and Hart at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith in London in the early 1990s. Saatchi is the co-founder of Saatchi and Saatchi and MC Saatchi, two of the world's largest advertising firms.

Ian McDiarmid, Hart, and Jonathan Kent on the stage of the Almeida Theatre in London.

Hart and Iris Murdoch.

From left: Charles Dance, Rupert Evans, Josephine Hart, and Jeremy Irons at her Poetry Hour at the British Library celebrating Robert Browning in 2009.

Josephine Hart in her garden in London in spring 2010.

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