Early Life
Pidgeon was born to English parents in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, while her father, Carl R. Pidgeon, was a visiting professor at MIT. Her mother was a yoga teacher. Her paternal grandmother, Monica Pidgeon, the editor of Architectural Design, was the sister of artist Olga Lehmann and art critic Andrew George Lehmann. She moved to Edinburgh, Scotland in 1970, with her parents. She thus holds dual American/British citizenship. Growing up in Edinburgh, she was a teenage friend of singer Shirley Manson.
Pidgeon attended drama college and graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London alongside Clive Owen, Liza Tarbuck and Serena Harragin. After some promising work as an actress in the UK, she moved back to the US.
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