Talk:Virginia Hey

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[edit] Birthdate controversy

Although the IMDb (which is not considered 100% reliable) has her birth year as 1952 (which would make her an unlikely 54 years old), other sources give her year of birth as 1959 and the Farscape fansite www.crichtonisms.com says 1962. So which is it? I'm going with 1959 as that is what was originally used in this article. For the record, the IMDB is the ONLY place I have ever seen a 1952 birth year used (other pages appear to simply be using the info from IMDb). If it's going to be changed back to 1952, then a citation from an OFFICIAL source -- not a user-edited source like IMDb or a celeb nudie pictures site -- needs to be cited otherwise it'll just get changed again. And if someone can confirm that the 1952 date is wrong, the IMDb needs to be informed about this. For my part, I was once a member of her mailing and I remember something in an e-mail about a 40th or 41st birthday party only a few years ago. Using the Archive.org Wayback Machine (since her official site appears to be not completely online anymore) there's no indication of her age in her online biography. There's a mention of her attending art school with her mum in 1971, but that's not uncommon for children so isn't really an indicator one way or the other. 23skidoo 17:05, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] More on the Birthdate controversy (con-TROV-er-sy?)

I don't think a 1952 birth year is that unlikely, mainly because (despite what you've said) it IS pretty unlikely that she was attending a diploma-granting program at age 12. Unless college is far different in Australia...