Greg Wise, Emma Thompson’s husband, has been married to her for 25 years. The couple started a family after their wedding and have two daughters, Gaia and Tindyebwa Agaba Wise.
Thompson was married to Kenneth Branagh at one point, but the relationship didn’t work out. When she met her husband in 1995, though, love knocked on her door for the second time.
The actress claimed the duo met on the set of Jane Austen’s period drama Sense & Sensibility during an appearance on The Graham Norton Show in 2019.
Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant, and Alan Rickman were among the cast members. Her husband initially pursued the Titanic star because a “witchy” acquaintance assured him he’d find his life partner on set. Thompson claimed that her husband didn’t believe it would be her because she was married and a significant age difference from him.
Wise brought Winslet to Glastonbury with him, but she was so bored that he assumed it wouldn’t work out and that his future girlfriend would be someone else.
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Winslet suggested Wise date Thompson instead of herself because she thought the two would be a good match.
And Winslet was absolutely correct. Thompson and her husband began dating and married after eight years of dating.
Thompson’s husband is an actor who has appeared in a number of films and television shows, including The Crown, Cranford, and Walking on Sunshine. However, his world was turned upside down when he was cast with his wife in Sense and Sensibility, his second picture.
In 2019, Wise teamed up with his wife once more to write the story for Emilia Clarke and Henry Golding in the holiday picture Last Christmas.
The couple’s wedding is thought to have taken place in the Scottish province of Argyll. Their daughter was three years old at the time of their wedding. When she was approaching 40, the Cruella star gave birth to her daughter via IVF.
She wanted to start a family again, but becoming pregnant proved difficult. Thompson told The Telegraph, “I would have loved to have had more children, and it’s been a big misery for me.”
Emma Thompson on Adopting Her Son Thompson didn’t let anything stand in the way of her having a second child.
Tindyebwa, her son, was adopted when her daughter was four years old. When their son was 16, the couple met at a Christmas charity event she hosted with the British Refugee Council in 2003.
Their son was a Rwandan orphan who had been kidnapped and forced to join the Rwandan army as a child soldier.
As a result, he had departed the country with the assistance of a humanitarian organization. Thompson and her husband met their second child for the first time when he spoke little English. However, this did not prevent the two from bonding with Tindyebwa.
“A combination of sign language, laughing, [and] smiling” was how they communicated and grew to know one another.
The little soldier was subsequently invited to Thompson’s family’s Christmas Eve supper, and the rest is history.
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