Long earlier than successful a Golden Globe for Finest Supporting Actor for his position in hit TV collection Succession, Matthew Macfadyen was Mr. Darcy within the 2005 model of Jane Austin’s Pleasure and Prejudice.
His Mr. Darcy was darkish, brooding and left the viewers swooning, removed from his character in Succession, Tom Wambsgans who’s described as servile and ruthless.
Macfadyen’s non-public life has been equally contrasting, nevertheless it has a cheerful ending. The British-born actor has been married to actress Keeley Hawes for the previous 19 years.
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The couple met after they have been each up and coming actors they usually have been every in relationships with different folks.
Macfadyen, 48, and Hawes met on the set of BBC spy drama Spooks in 2002. Hawes was solely months into her marriage with cartoon designer Spencer McCallum and the pair had a 20-month-old son.
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Macfadyen was relationship actor Surita Chowdry on the time.
Hawes spoke concerning the early days of their relationship, describing the second Macfadyen declared his like to her.
”Matthew simply got here straight out with it and stated ‘I like you’ within the rain someday. I believed, Oh pricey, right here we go,” she advised Vainness Truthful.
Hawes left her husband they usually finalised their divorce in 2004. That very same 12 months she and Macfadyen wed.
They’ve been going sturdy ever since. They’ve two kids – Maggie, 18, and son Ralph, 16 – and Macfadyen is stepfather to her son from her first marriage, Myles McCallum. In addition they share a canine named Buster.
Macfadyen and Hawes are notoriously non-public about their relationship, which sparks much more curiosity.
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Theirs stays a private {and professional} collaboration.
They subsequent labored collectively n 2007 comedy Dying at a Funeral and with Succession coming to a dramatic finish in 2023, they’re working collectively as soon as extra.
The pair each star within the collection Stonehouse about British politician John Stonehouse who faked his personal loss of life earlier than working off along with his mistress and later being uncovered as a spy.
Hawes advised The Mirror: “We have now labored collectively earlier than, however not for a number of years. And so when this got here up, it appeared like the proper undertaking on so many ranges actually, principally as a result of the Stonehouses are so totally different to Matthew and I and to our relationship.
“So it is good to see us, I believe, and attention-grabbing for individuals who could know that we’re married to see us because the “different” couple.”
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The pair showcased their bond in the course of the interview with banter throughout which they poked enjoyable on the expertise.
Hawes advised Macfadyen: “It was actually fantastic. It was very jolly, wasn’t it?”
Macfadyen responded: ‘Yeah, it was very tough working with Keeley. She’s… it was arduous. It was arduous. No, that is a foolish reply. It was joyful working with Keeley. It was good, wasn’t it?”
He advised the Radio Occasions working collectively was “simply nice” as they’re used to spending time aside.
“So typically we’re type of scattered in several nations. However the concept of going to work collectively was simply nice,” he stated. “We even took the canine.”
He described his spouse as a “good actress” and described engaged on Stonehouse along with her as “actually pretty.”
In an interview in 2021 with The Night Commonplace, Macfadyen advised the publication he and his spouse make certain they’re solely aside for 3 weeks at most.
“Keeley and I’ve a three-week rule – neither of us needs to be aside for any longer. So after three weeks by myself, I began to go a bit mad,” he defined. “You begin to suppose. ‘What am I doing?’ I would be strolling round Brooklyn, pondering, ‘the place do I reside?’ It was odd and arduous.”
Hawes spoke of their relationship throughout an interview with The Telegraph UK in 2010, telling the publication they love being married.
“I like being married to Matthew, and I do know Matthew loves being married too,” she stated. “It ties all the things up and it is a assertion to one another and to the world. Marriage and being a mom are completely essential to my happiness and my life.”
The pair are each homebodies and like staying house to going out and socialising.
