Honeysuckle Weeks is a British actress renowned for her role as Samantha Stewart (later Wainwright) in the ITV wartime drama series Foyle’s War. She was on the show from 2002 through 2010 and appeared again in 2013 and 2015.
Weeks has also starred in television programs such as the Bill, Close Relations, Midsomer Murders, Poirot, Death in Paradise, and The Inspector Lynley Mysteries.
Honeysuckles gained a household name for portraying driver, Samantha “Sam” Stewart for Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle (Michael Kitchen) the lead of Foyle’s War, a BAFTA Award-winning detective series set in Hastings.
While she furthermore has been in various other regional TV programs and films such as Lorna Doone, My Brother Tom, Red Mercury, and The Wicker Tree, recently, the actress seems to be featured in only a few projects.
Know whether she is thinking of taking a break or maybe retiring. Also read all about her life; origin, how she became an actress, her family, her spouse, and her latest doings; professionally and personally.
Honeysuckles Weeks Childhood
The British actress, Honeysuckle Weeks (actual name, Honeysuckle Susan Weeks) was born in Cardiff on August 1, 1979, and grew up in a farmhouse in Chichester and Petworth in West Sussex.
Foyle’s War actress, Honeysuckle Weeks as a child.
Foyle’s War star, Honeysuckle Weeks was a child.
AD \sWeeks’ mother Susan Wade Weeks, used to be a copywriter, and her father, Robin operates an advertising company.
Her mother was formerly a Conservative candidate for York and has also been an additional crew in films Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, A Good Year, Girl With A Pearl Earring, and Arthur and The Invisibles, among others. Her parents were likewise from an upper-class background. They though parted when Honeysuckle was 13.
The now 42-year-old, Weeks had a pretty liberal childhood despite her family being of traditional background. In actuality, her childhood and adolescence were generally ideal. She was also a self-avowed tomboy; Honeysuckle and her sister had their private lake and often played Swallows and Amazons.
Her parents called her after the fragrant climbing plant that was in flower at the time of her birth.
She studied acting at Roedean, the girls’ school in Brighton. And for her higher studies, Weeks traveled to look for an English degree at Pembroke College, Oxford and graduated in 2001.
How Honeysuckle Weeks Became An Actress?
Weeks’ acting career started at just 6 years old when at the time a children’s talent agent spotted her, her sister, and her brother.
Honeysuckle Weeks’ mother would take her to auditions in London when she was just six.
Honeysuckle Weeks started acting aged six.
Before that, her parents would take her to auditions in London. It was her parents who had selected “acting” for her and her two siblings. They encouraged their children into drama from a very early age. They, themselves both had ambitions to act.
Weeks’ first exposure to the theater was portraying a munchkin in a school performance of The Wizard of Oz. Some time afterward, her mother enrolled her in the youth theatre at Chichester Festival Theatre.
In an interview, the West Sussex native disclosed her first professional production was in The Wind in the Willows for which she received 3 pounds per performance. In the play, she played a hedgehog, duck, and stoat.
AD \sHer Early Projects As A Child Actress
Upon attending auditions, one day, Weeks earned a role in the BBC children’s program Goggle Eyes as a teenager.
She had recently lost the part for a West End version of Les Miserables when the Sylvia Young Agency spotted her and ultimately coaxed her into auditioning for Goggle Eyes. Along with Honeysuckles, her sister Perdita also received a part in the BBC2 children’s series.
At 14, the elder sister acted as young Faith in the TV adaptation of Ruth Rendell’s novel A Dark Adapted Eye (1994). (1994). In the series, she acted alongside, Helena Bonham Carter. Weeks subsequently performed two separate teenager characters in ITV’s long-running police ‘soap’ The Bill, first in 1995 & then again in 1996.
Honeysuckle Weeks Other Roles In TVs, Films, And Theaters
In 1997 and 98 the British actress respectively participated in four episodes of Have Your Cake and Eat It (1997); eighteen episodes of The Wild House (1998). (1998).
Also in 1998, she was one of the extras in the TV mini-series, Close Relations, and subsequently starred in a Ruth Rendell Mystery The Orchard Walls. The next year, in 1999, she appeared in an episode of Midsomer Murders.
Next year, Honeysuckle landed the role of Annie Ridd in the TV film Lorna Doone, and the year after that, she bagged her first big-screen assignment, in My Brother Tom (2001) a film about two sexually abused youths. In 2002, Honeysuckle featured in the BBC’s WW2 series Foyle’s War as Samantha Stewart. It would subsequently become the series that made her well-recognized by a larger public.
Honeysuckle Weeks as Sam Stewart in the ITV drama series, Foley’s War.
Honeysuckle Weeks as Sam Stewart beside Michael Kitchen in Foyle’s War.
Whilst being the cast of Foyle’s War, Weeks would also star in the film Red Mercury (2005), Cards on the Table (2005), and The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (2007). (2007). She has also featured in the series, The Bill largely as Julie Nowak.
In the theatre, Honeysuckle played the governess in a 2008 performance of Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw. Additionally, she has acted as Viola in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night and as Eva in Alan Ayckbourn’s outstanding piece Absurd Person Singular.
Her Siblings, Perdita Weeks And Rollo Weeks
Her younger sister, Perdita Weeks, is also an actor and is known for playing Juliet Huggins in the CBS remake series Magnum PI.
Honeysuckle Weeks’ sister and Magnum PI actor, Perdita Weeks.
Honeysuckle Weeks’ other sister, Perdita Weeks is notable for acting in the CBS series, Magnum PI.
She has also been in hits like Ready Player One, Penny Dreadful, The Invisible Woman, and more.
As for her younger brother, Rollo Weeks, he, too was an actor and has important credits in films The Little Vampire (2000) and The Thief Lord (2006). (2006). Honeysuckle’s brother, Roll, is renowned for participating in the BBC series It Might Be You and the miniseries Berkeley Square.
The Thief Lord star, Rollo Weeks is now a professional photographer.
Honeysuckle’s brother, Rollo Weeks is now a successful photographer.
As of recent, though, Rollo has transformed into a professional photographer working for Gro Studio, London as a creative director. His social media profiles include a couple of collections of nature photographs and sometimes stills of his sisters as well.
Honeysuckle Week’s Relationship With Her Husband Lorne Stormonth-Darling
When last reported, the mother-of-one was married to Lorne Stormonth-Darling, 16 years her senior, with a kid.
He is a hypnotherapist and an antique merchant. Weeks went on a first date with her future husband, Lorne Stormonth-Darling in 2002. The former student of Premboke College claimed he begged her to marry him every day after their first date.
Foyle’s War actress with her husband, Lorne Stormonth-Darling whom she married in 2005.
Honeysuckle Weeks with her husband, Lorne Stormonth-Darling.
Three years later, Honeysuckle and Stormonth-Darling tied the knot in a Buddhist ceremony in the Himalayas while on a holiday in 2005. That wedding ceremony happened in an apple orchard 8,000ft above sea level.
The pair, meanwhile, later had a more conventional church wedding in July 2007. They thought about remarrying on their return to their nation and were under pressure from both sets of parents to tie the knot properly.
Their Second Wedding
The second time, Lorne and his actress bride had their nuptials were at St Mary’s Church in Barlavington, near Petworth in West Sussex.
The Oxford graduate donned a medieval-style outfit that she had bought from an antique shop in Hastings for £280. Lorne presented Honeysuckle what she smilingly characterizes as a “revolting garnet knuckle-duster ring.” Her baby’s father had fashioned the ring himself.
After the wedding ceremony, the newlyweds left their celebrations by hot-air balloon for the first leg of a voyage to honeymoon in Zanzibar. However, just three miles out, the weather took a sudden turn for the worst and the balloon crash-landed near a cornfield, just avoiding a lake. They, however, didn’t notify their parents about the accident.
After marriage no 2, they started living in a two-bedroom cottage in Kensal Green, London (with their Tibetan Mastiff, Kensal) in a little cottage that Honeysuckle bought in 2004.
Together, Weeks and her husband are parents to a boy, Wade, born in 2011.
Lorne And Weeks Were At The Same College Before Marrying Each Other \ Lorne and Honeysuckles had known each other way before they would start a relationship.
In truth, Weeks had been acquainted with Lorne, the son of a retired City broker since 1999 while she was at Oxford and he was a friend of her flatmate’s parents.
The Goggle Eyes star alleges her now-husband would hang around “to attempt to find a younger girlfriend” and even hit on her friend before he settled on Weeks.
Is Honeysuckle Weeks Still Married To Lorne Stormonth-Darling?
Fast forward to Jan 2019 and Dailymail revealed the former child stage actress and the father of her son, Stormonth-Darling had crashed and burned their union.
This was after Foyle’s War star shared a video of a sign showing the initials L&H with pink hearts burning on a bonfire, and captioned it ‘By bye marriage.’
Though that would be the only time either the husband or the wife talked about where their marriage was at. It subsequently is unclear whether the pair has genuinely made it quits quietly or reconciled already behind the scenes.
Weeks’ Once Had A Fiance Who Died In A Car Crash
While she may have been long married to a hypnotherapist, Lorne wasn’t her first relationship that people had known about.
When she was young, Honeysuckle was the fiancee of poet and musician, Anno Birkin. Before the wedding, however, he lost his life in a car tragedy just before his 21st birthday.
She Also Had A Brief Romance With Actor Hugh Grant
She also once went on a date with fellow British actor, Hugh Grant, whom she met at a millennium party in London’s Groucho Club.
They had supper in the members’ club Soho House, but she didn’t phone him after their initial date. Weeks thinks it was because she didn’t think the Love Actually actor would want to hear from her again.
Honeysuckle Weeks Once Went Missing
In July 2016 Honeysuckle’s relatives reported her missing to the police.
To the authorities, they reported they had last seen the actress in Chichester, a city in West Sussex. Fortunately, the officials located her a day after her near ones complained about her missing around 10 pm on Thursday.
In July 2016, Honeysuckle’s relatives reported she had gone missing.
Honeysuckle went missing in July 2016 but was found the next day. Police claimed they encountered Ms. Weeks ‘safe and well at a relative’s residence in London around 7.45 pm on Friday. Apparently, before her disappearance, Weeks told her family of feeling anxious.
This, however, wasn’t the first time she had become the subject of a police case. Earlier, the same year Ms. Weeks had to wear an electronic tag and had earned a suspension from driving for four months when the police caught her speeding on the A3 in southwest London.
The court had also placed a nighttime curfew on her for a month. What’s more, at the time of the speeding, she was with her then five-year-old son Wade who was in the back of the vehicle.
In The Past, Honeysuckle Struggled To Lose Weight
Honeysuckles once confessed to having a type of eating disorder problem.
In March 2008, when chatting to Dailymail, the eldest sister of Perdita Weeks stated she had also been on a drive to lose weight and become “Hollywood thin.”
Weeks claimed she strived for a size-zero culture that female celebrities at the time were increasingly adopting.
“I used to run ten miles every other day and eat very little. I was living in London on my own for the first time and no one was checking on me,”
Meet the star of The Midsomer Murders. She noted while she wasn’t anorexic but had lost three stones and weighed around seven. That, unfortunately, lasted barely six months until she ran out of willpower.
She also mentioned how size zero will never make one happy and said she is too much of a fan of sweets and crisps.
What Is She Doing Now?
While The Red Mercury actress is rather careful with her Facebook and Instagram handles, her reasonably active Twitter shows she still lives in Sussex.
As for the performing, Weeks’ last cinematic jobs were her part of Christy in the series, Maxx (2020). (2020). Before it, she had been appearing as Laura Marshall in the TV mini-series, The Five (2016), and then as Agatha Christie in \ another series, Frankie Drake Mysteries (2019). (2019).
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