Eddie Redmayne and Hannah Bagshawe: A Look Into the Personal Life of the Power Couple

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Eddie Redmayne may seem young, but he’s swept the world off its feet over his 25-year-long-acting career. By the time he was 33, he’d won an Oscar, a Golden Globe, a British Academy Film Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award, all as the Best or Most Outstanding Actor for his portrayal of the late Stephen Hawking. But he’s also had a stunningly beautiful lady by his side. Here’s what you need to know about Eddie Redmayne, his wife Hannah Bagshaw, and the power couple’s two children.

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Eddie Redmayne Has Been Studying Acting Since Age 10

LONDON, ENGLAND – FEBRUARY 19: (L-R) Hannah Bagshawe and Eddie Redmayne attend the EE BAFTA Film Awards 2023 at The Royal Festival Hall on February 19, 2023 in London, England. (Photo by Jeff Spicer/Getty Images)

Eddie Redmayne was born on January 6, 1982, in Westminster, England. He began formal acting at the Jackie Palmer Stage School when he was ten. He attended Eton College as a high schooler, along with Prince William.

“We played rugby and did French lessons together. It felt totally normal having [Prince William] there,” Redmayne told Daily Mail. “Well, maybe not normal, but then, Eton is not normal — you go around wearing tailcoats which is definitely unusual, and yet because everyone else around you is wearing them too, you don’t feel out of place.”

Redmayne was involved in theatre while at Eton and even acted alongside the Prince! The actor also has a gift with singing, which landed him a choral scholarship at Cambridge University’s Trinity College. In 2003, he graduated from Cambridge with 2:1 Honors with a major in Art History.

Redmayne Has Won Awards in Film and Theatre

BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA – JANUARY 10: (L-R) Hannah Bagshawe and Eddie Redmayne attend the 80th Annual Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton on January 10, 2023 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images)

Long before he’d finished his schooling, Redmayne had launched his acting career. Unlike many actors with classical theatre training, he actually got his start in film. In 1998, he was cast in an episode of Animal Ark. His next onscreen role wouldn’t be until 2003. Redmayne’s professional stage debut was for a 2002 Shakespeare Globe Theatre production of Twelfth Night, as Viola. In 2004, he starred in Edward Albee’s The Goat. His performance garnered an Evening Standard Award for Outstanding Newcomer as well as the Critics’ Circle prize. The Independent once called him “one of the most exciting actors to hit both stage and screen” in the past 30 years.

Eddie Redmayne continued to take the acting world by storm, both onscreen and on stage. His 2009 performance in the contemporary play Red won him a Tony and an Olivier Award. Meanwhile he was establishing himself as a Method actor onscreen, especially talented in period pieces. He was in Elizabeth I (HBO mini-series), The Good Shepherd, BBC’s Tess d’Urbervilles, a film remake of Red, Le Misérables, and by 2014, he played Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything.

He Played Stephen Hawking — And the Film Made the Real Hawking Cry

Redmayne took playing Hawking quite seriously, admitting to being intimidated by the role. He personally studied and met with the genius prior to his passing and spent months working with a choreographer so he could properly portray a man who is paralyzed from a motor neuron disease. He asked for Hawking’s personal opinion on the finished film, which reportedly made him cry. “It’s sad in places, and it even made him cry — yet he lived the story,” Redmayne told Daily Mail.

In 2016, Redmayne played Newt in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter spin-off Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. The role became recurring, and two sequels have since created a bit of a cult following for the prolific actor.

Hannah Bagshawe Met Eddie Redmayne in 2000 While They Were Teenagers

LONDON, ENGLAND – APRIL 10: Hannah Bagshawe and Eddie Redmayne attend The Olivier Awards 2022 with MasterCard at the Royal Albert Hall on April 10, 2022 in London, England. (Photo by Jeff Spicer/Getty Images for SOLT)

All of his success has been hard-earned, as Method acting is no easy task. And anyone who’s been watching prestigious award shows and high-profile events like the Met Gala over the past decade has probably seen the blonde beauty supporting him by his die. Hannah Bagshawe could easily be mistaken for a Hollywood star herself, but she actually prefers to stay out of the spotlight.

Hannah Bagshawe was born on November 30, 1982, making her almost exactly the same age as Eddie. The London native attended an all-girls school close by to Eton College. She and friends put on a charity fashion show at Eton, which is where she and Redmayne met in 2000.

“‘I had to walk across the stage topless — I was this pasty, freckly guy and when I came on the girls in the audience didn’t take much notice of me, but I was followed by the best-looking boy in the school and all the girls erupted in cheers, which was emotionally scarring!” Redmayne told Daily Mail. “I saw Hannah across the room at a party afterwards and she was very beautiful and very funny, and she loves the arts and theatre just as I do, so we became friends.”

They Didn’t Go on a Date For 12 Years

LONDON, ENGLAND – APRIL 10: Hannah Bagshawe and Eddie Redmayne attend The Olivier Awards 2022 with MasterCard at the Royal Albert Hall on April 10, 2022 in London, England. (Photo by Jeff Spicer/Getty Images for SOLT)

The two became friends but kept it very platonic for 12 years. Finally, Redmayne asked Bagshawe out on an unconventional date. He was preparing to film Les Miserables and wanted to take a quick vacation.

“’You don’t want to come to Florence with me next week, do you?’” Redmayne asked.  “She said, ‘That’s absurd, you don’t mean it.’ I said, ‘Yes I do!’ So, our first proper date was in Florence. That was three years ago, and we couldn’t be happier.” The quote is from 2014. The two have been together now for over a decade.

They exchanged vows in 2014 and Bagshawe was reportedly 30 minutes late to the wedding. “She has never been on time for anything in her life,” Redmayne revealed on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. “Everyone else was really stressed, but I was kind of relaxed knowing that she’d never been on time for pretty much anything in her life.” 

Bagshawe Is a Public Relations Expert and Helps Her Husband Pick Out His Clothes

LONDON, ENGLAND – MARCH 29: Eddie Redmayne and Hannah Bagshawe attend the “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore” World Premiere at The Royal Festival Hall on March 29, 2022 in London, England. (Photo by Neil Mockford/FilmMagic)

Hannah Bagshawe works as a public relations expert and has also worked as an antique dealer. Thanks to her keen eye for all things appearances, she also has an unofficial job as her husband’s fashion consultant.

“I have a very wonderful stylist in the form of my wife,” Redmayne told The Mirror. “I’m colour blind, so occasionally I’ll go for things that are slightly outlandish and she’ll temper me back into the world of taste.”

According to Hello! Magazine, Bagshawe and Redmayne are also friends with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. They’ve reportedly been spotted at the Sussex’s dinner parties over the years.

Iris Mary Redmayne Was Born in 2016

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – DECEMBER 11: Hannah Bagshawe and Eddie Redmayne attend HBO’s “Finding The Way Home” World Premiere at Hudson Yards on December 11, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images)

On June 15, 2016, Redmayne and Bagshawe expanded their family to three when their daughter Iris Mary was born. The actor told reporters at the Oscars that they were waiting for the big day to find out if they were having a boy or a girl.

“I’m excited,” he said. “But I don’t think it’s sunk in yet. We just bought our first baby book. So, there’s the first step. We’re waiting to find out [the sex]. We want to be surprised. It will be a big surprise either way! I figure part of it I’ll get from the book and part will be just instinct.”

He also told People that he thought his wife was a “saint.”

When Iris Mary was just 6 months old, Redmayne and Bagshawe paid an honorary visit to Queen Elizabeth II. Redmayne was appointed an Order of the British Empire. The couple looked stunning and dapper, and Hannah herself certainly didn’t appear to have recently carried a child. She rebounded right away, it seems.

Luke Richard Redmayne Was Born in 2018

LONDON, ENGLAND – OCTOBER 07: Hannah Bagshawe and Eddie Redmayne attend “The Aeronauts” UK Premiere during the 63rd BFI London Film Festival at the Odeon Luxe Leicester Square on October 07, 2019 in London, England. (Photo by Lia Toby/Getty Images for BFI)

On March 10, 2018, the family of three grew to a family of four. They kept Luke Richard Redmayne’s sex a surprise just like with his sister. That seems perfect because Redmayne himself had previously admitted to Ripa and Seacrest that they were out of name ideas.

“There was basically only one name for each sex that we agreed on,” he said (via People).

Despite their busy schedules and their two little ones, Redmayne and Bagshawe seem to be finding the serenity they need to power through.

“In all seriousness, the acting world has such a weird life rhythm that constantly shifts,” he told Crash Magazine. “When it comes to my family, I personally had quite a stable upbringing and I’m endlessly trying to find some stability for my kids.”

But that has also meant that Redmayne sticks to film acting over the theatre, as the latter can be quite time-consuming.

“My wife and I find that we basically have no control, particularly when I’m doing theater work,” he continued. “I haven’t done a play since Hannah and I got together, and the reality of it is that every night other than Sunday, you’re out working. You have to sleep late in the mornings, so you don’t get to see your kids and you’re also living like a monk! You’re not able to drink and you have to be strict with yourself. It’s quite intense to put my wife and kids through that, so I was trying to be quite good at going home when I could.”

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