Kappes, Irene

Irene Kappes was born in Hackney, North London, in 1955. She graduated from a major British drama school in 1979 and went on to work as an actress, tutor and director in community and educational theatre. Irene has a PhD in Education. She became George Pantziarka's step-mother in 1996, when George was three years old and fighting his first cancer. When George passed away in 2011, at the age of 17, Irene began to write George's story and the story of her family's struggle to battle his disease. At the same time, she and her husband founded the George Pantziarka TP53 Trust, to support those affe...