The moment I knew: I admitted I had a crush on her. She replied, ‘Well, that’s good. Isn’t it?’
Actors Peter Houghton and Anne Browning played lovers onstage, but a shared sense of humour and a magazine horoscope flipped the script on their real-life…
The Guardian reports: Actors Peter Houghton and Anne Browning played lovers onstage, but a shared sense of humour and a magazine horoscope flipped the script on their real-life relationship Find more stories from the moment I knew series Anne and I met in Melbourne in 1997 when we were cast in a production of Hamlet.
We were both single and playing onstage lovers. I still recall those intense, slightly scary green eyes looking at me.
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