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Times
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Times
Greg Wise: ‘It wasn't love at first sight when I met Emma'
Actor Greg Wise, 59, grew up in Northumberland. He met his wife, the actress Emma Thompson, on the set of the 1995 film Sense and Sensibility. They have an adopted son, Tindy, and a daughter, Gaia, who is an actress. He has starred in The Crown and the BBC's Cranford, and lives in London. Would you say 'nepo baby' to a doctor whose parents were both doctors? No. I was brought up in a house of two architects and I trained as an architect. Our daughter is a young actor. We were never not going to have a daughter who wanted to be an actress. If a household seeps a certain profession through every pore, you're going to pick up on that as a child. She's the spitting image of a young Emma, and played her in a film.
Daily Mail
27-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Greg Wise calls his Nanny McPhee star wife Dame Emma Thompson the Winch Wench
She starred in Nanny McPhee, and the Harry Potter films. But in her downtime Oscar nominee Dame Emma Thompson loves nothing more than a bit of woodwork. The 66-year-old's husband said Dame Emma is known as the 'Winch Wench' for getting creative at home on the banks of Loch Eck in Argyll. Speaking on Virgin Radio, Greg Wise, 59, told show host Chris Evans of the BAFTA-winner's fondness for his 'madly dangerous' power tools. 'I have something called a portable capstan winch Em fell in love with and became the Winch Wench,' he said. The couple have owned their Scottish home - near the picturesque Clyde town of Dunoon - for 20 years. Such is their involvement in the local community that they recently threw their weight behind a campaign to save local arts venue Dunoon Burgh Hall. In an effort to highlight the plight of the venue and the efforts to save it, Dame Emma, 65, and Wise, who married near the town in 2003 and have a house nearby on the shores of Loch Eck, recorded a video message. In it, Dame Emma said: 'It's the most extraordinary building - so beautiful but inside, so vibrant and alive. 'They have the most wonderful art shows and the most wonderful resources for the elderly, the young. It's a community hub like no other and we are so lucky to have such a thing in Dunoon.' Wise, 58, who described the hall as 'extraordinary', then said: 'So please help as much as you can, spread the word, help raise funds, keep this wonderful building open. 'It's a crown for Dunoon and it would be an absolute travesty were it to disappear.' Dame Emma, who spent much of her childhood in Scotland, then ended the video saying: 'Help us save this precious treasure.' The Tutti Frutti, Harry Potter and Love Actually star's mother is Glasgow-born actress Phyllida Law, 92. As well as their home near Dunoon, Dame Emma and her husband own a £3million house in Hampstead, north London, and another property in Venice.
