Hugh Bonneville, who played Lord Grantham on Downton Abbey, and his wife Lucinda “Lulu” Williams were married for 25 years before deciding to divorce. From 2010 through 2015, Bonneville portrayed Robert Crawley, the Earl of Grantham, on Downton Abbey. He will reprise the role in the 2019 film adaptation and the 2022 sequel, Downton Abbey: A New Era.
Hugh Bonneville has confirmed his separation from Lulu Williams after 25 years of marriage https://t.co/OZi0y9vEnC
— The Times and The Sunday Times (@thetimes) October 1, 2023
On Saturday, September 30th, a representative for Bonneville told The Sun, “I can confirm that Hugh Bonneville and Lulu Williams have separated.” They tied the knot in 1988 and are the proud parents of a son born of their union. His co-stars from Downton Abbey, Michelle Dockery and Jasper Waller-Bridge, got married last Saturday, and he was there without his wedding band.
In the 2014 film Paddington and its 2017 sequel, Bonneville played the role of Mr. Brown. He will be joining Ben Whishaw (who plays Paddington) as well as Olivia Colman, Antonio Banderas, and Emily Mortimer in the upcoming Paddington in Peru, the third installment in the Paddington film series.
In the film, directed by Dougal Wilson, Paddington makes a return to Peru, where he first appeared. Production began on July 24 of this year. Last year, the actor admitted that he had doubts about the success of the sequel and gave director Paul King the credit for turning out to be right.
I acknowledge that it is a masterwork, but I was not expecting it to be one. This isn’t going to work, I told Paul [King, the director],” he recalled saying. I was so incorrect and it may be the greatest movie ever.
“But it was a tough gig, because Paul worries away at each scene,” he continued. As the director put it, “we reshot several scenes because he wasn’t satisfied, and luckily he had a producer with the genius of David Heyman to say, ok, we’ll do that.”
In the 2022 Netflix thriller I Came By, Bonneville played a role very different from his previous ones, that of a retired judge harboring a sinister secret. According to Digital Spy, director Babak Anvari said that he cast Bonneville because he “genuinely wanted an actor who hadn’t done this sort of villainous dark roles before.”
Hugh “was my first choice because he is so incredibly brave that he wanted to do something different and come on this journey with me,” he said. “Everyone knows him from family films, comedies, and Downton.” As the speaker suggests, “I think that was part of the excitement.”
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