Olivia Colman, the Oscar-winning actress known for her roles in The Favourite and The Crown, has been married to actor Ed Sinclair for 25 years. The couple met at Cambridge University when they were both 20 years old, and Colman has often described it as love at first sight.
Colman recalled thinking, 'There's the bloke I'm going to marry,' when she first saw Sinclair. They were both studying at Cambridge, where Sinclair initially enrolled in law but later switched to acting and writing after discovering his creative passion. Their friendship blossomed into romance during a university production of Alan Ayckbourn's Table Manners at the Footlights Dramatics Club.
The couple married in 2001 after attending Bristol Old Vic drama school together. They have three children: two sons, Finn and Hall, and a daughter born in 2015 whose name they have chosen not to disclose. Colman has always prioritised her family, famously leaving her BAFTA ceremony early in 2014 to go home and be with them.
Colman credits their early meeting as key to their lasting relationship. 'We met when we had nothing and we loved each other then. So we were all right,' she told The Telegraph. Despite her rising fame, she admits she struggles with being apart from her husband and children, saying, 'I don't like being away from them. It's as simple as that.'
