David Thewlis

David is living with actress Anna Friel. They met on a flight to Cannes in 2001 and after that at a dinner thrown by a mutual friend. Their daughter, Gracie Ellen Mary Friel, was born on 9 July, 2005 in London. The family live in Windsor and Los Angeles. Anna has recently been seen in tv-show Pushing Daisies.

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Anna likes to talk about the love of her life:

Whenever I take a break from work and David can’t come with me, there’s a bit of me that wants to stay at home. I miss him dreadfully while we’re apart, but that’s good, I think!

I’m with David, and that’s given me a lot of focus. We’re not party animals - I’ve got over all of that – we like our own company and that of good friends.

Before I go into anything new, I get very nervous and uptight, and David is great at calming me down. He’s made me feel much more confident. He’e my biggest hero ever.

It's only natural that this happens because of the jobs we do. We were lucky enough to have an unusual amount of time together for the first 18 months of our relationship. We only spent three nights apart. David is just starting work on the new Harry Potter film, so we'll have even less time together. He is playing Professor Lupin and has now become the favourite with all our friends who've got kids. Their eyes are huge with awe at the fact that David is going to be meeting Harry Potter. It will be brilliant - I'm really excited for him. And it will be nice to say to our kids one day 'Look there's daddy', especially in a film like that with Gary Oldman and Michael Gambon, who is taking over the role of Professor Dumbledore. But I won't be as popular as he is - the girlfriend of Professor Lupin doesn't sound quite as cool.

David says:

The attraction was something simple really in that we were from the same part of the world, from Lancashire, --
There was something very familiar about her. She was like the girls I'd grown up with.

I am a changed man because of Anna and Gracie. Anna changed me for the better, from a rather wild, restless character into a gentle soul. Gracie has changed me, too. I look at her and am filled with love. I cannot bare to be parted from either of them.