19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
Peaky Blinders star Charlie Murphy announces pregnancy following long IVF journey
The Co Wexford native announced the news in an interview with The Irish Times, where she explained that it took five rounds of IVF over a period of two years before she and her long-time partner and fiancee, British director Sam Yates, received the happy news.
Confessing that she would have been initially very private and selective in disclosing details of her fertility journey, she is now happy that by telling her story, other hopeful mothers may find solace and allow conversations about IVF to become more mainstream.
"I was happy obviously, but I did have to remind myself not to celebrate too much," she said. "Maybe it was PTSD of doing a few rounds of IVF.
"That was gruelling. It was so intense that I was welcoming all the symptoms that come with a pregnancy, I was just so happy to be out of the rounds."
Before her rise to fame, Charlie grew up in Enniscorthy until the age of 12 with her five siblings and parents Brenda and Pat Murphy who owned the Scissors Empire hairdressing salon in Wexford.
Her mother has also seen great success in the arts, having published a novel called The Kilton Girls in 2018.
The now 37-year-old trained in the Gaiety School of Acting before making a name for herself in the Irish phenomenon Love/Hate, which had everyone hooked to their screens from 2010 to 2014.
She then went on to star in Happy Valley, Obsession and Halo, and as British trade union leader Jessie Eden in the crime drama Peaky Blinders.
She currently lives in Stoke Newington in London with her fiancee and has hinted at plans to marry following the birth of their child.
