30-06-2025
Regé-Jean Page makes a rare public appearance with girlfriend Emily Brown as the couple enjoy a romantic date at Rome's famous Pierluigi restaurant
Regé-Jean Page made a rare public appearance with his girlfriend Emily Brown as they stepped out for a romantic dinner date in Rome.
The actor, 37, rose to fame on the first season of Netflix 's Bridgerton and most recently appeared in Black Bag alongside Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender.
Taking some time away from work last week, Page - whose name has been thrown in the ring on multiple occasions as a possibility for the next James Bond - jetted off to Italy with his girlfriend.
The pair were seen laughing with the waiter as they enjoyed a meal at the famous Pierluigi restaurant in Rome on Saturday.
Appearing engaged in a serious chat over dinner, the couple soon sported beaming grins as they ordered their meal.
It is the first time the couple have been spotted out in public since they attended the dunhill Pre-BAFTA Filmmakers Dinner held at dunhill Bourdon House in Mayfair, London, in February 2024.
Page and Brown were first seen together in public back in February 2021 outside the London home they share together and have gone from strength to strength since.
It had been reported that the pair bought the home back in February 2020, a few months after filming for Bridgerton series one had finished.
Although they have been seen on numerous red carpet events since they were first romantically linked, including the GQ awards, the pair keep their relationship under wraps for the most part.
Emily works as a freelance copywriter with commissions from firms including Nike, Converse and Uber.
Before her relationship with Page, Emily dated Jack Badu, a football coach who would accompany her to Dulwich Hamlet games.
Colleagues on the networking site LinkedIn describe her as 'witty' and 'great fun to be around'.
Another rather enviously wrote of her: 'Even after a massive party, she seems to skip about the world like a bunny who's never even heard the word hangover.'
Famous for playing Simon Bassett in the first season of Bridgerton, Page left the show after just one series.
Born in London to a Zimbabwean nurse and an English preacher, Page, the youngest of four siblings, spent much of his young life growing up more than 5,000 miles away in southern Africa.
Page later made a return to London for secondary school and it was in North London where he would find his passion for acting - attending the Jigsaw Saturday School in Enfield for around 10 years.
Acting, however, wasn't his first choice of careers.
And the heartthrob star may never have graced our screens with his good-looks had he followed his initial career choice, as a sound engineer.
'It was already a compromise. It was halfway between science for my mum and an art for me,' he told Interview Magazine in 2016.
Music was obviously an early passion for the future star, who sang and played drums in a punk band which he formed with one of his three siblings, brother Tose Page - with whom he still performs as part of the musical duo TUNYA.
Though his dress sense was somewhat different to the regency era clothing in which he would burst into super-stardom.
According to Interview Magazine, Page dyed his hair blue, green and purple during his punk days.
Acting, at the time, was merely hobby for Page. Like so many others, he starred in his school's nativity, playing the Little Drummer Boy.
But it was at his Enfield Saturday school where he began fine-tuning his skills.
It was during this time Page gained extra roles - once playing an ambulance thief in the long-running medical series Casualty.
Page's first professional job was in the History Boys in Sheffield's Crucible Theatre and he later landed roles in the likes of Fresh Meat and Waterloo Road.
His breakthrough came across the pond in the US, where he now spends much of his time.
He played Chicken George in the History Channel big budget 2016 miniseries Roots - based on a book following the story of an 18th-century African who becomes enslaved and transported to North America.
Page's performance in the show, a remake on a 1977 series of the same name, earned him critical acclaim.
It also helped him land a spot in US Crime series For the People, based on the writing of hit screenwriter and author Shonda Rhimes - the mind behind Bridgerton.
