Olivia Colman

Olivia Colman is known as an English actress. She is most famous for her roles in 'The Crown', 'Fleabag', and 'The Favourite'.

Background and Age

Sarah Caroline Olivia Colman was born on Jan. 30, 1974, in Norfolk, England. Her mom was a medical caretaker and her father was a chartered surveyor. Colman went to a nearby tuition based school, Gresham's School. She had her first acting part in a school play, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, when she was 16. After she graduated, she quickly decided on a teaching career and took courses in instructing at Homerton College at Cambridge.

She met her future spouse, Ed Sinclair who was a law student, at Cambridge. Harboring a desire to act, Colman tailed him to acting school, Britain's Bristol Old Vic Theater School, where she graduated in 1999. The school's graduating class included Daniel Day-Lewis, Jeremy Irons, and Patrick Stewart.

Married, Husband and Kids

Colman married author Ed Sinclair in 2001. They have three children and live in London together. Coleman recognizes her flexibility however abstains from appointing a particular technique to the manner in which she approaches acting. She tries to adopt a cheerful strategy to work in light of the fact that as significant as it seems to be, it's never more significant than her family.

Career and Net Worth

In 2013, Colman's role in Broadchurch as the lead analyst in a child murder case in a little ocean side town launched her in the list of top actresses in the U.K. In November 2017, only weeks before season two of The Crown was set to start, Colman was declared as the actress who might assume control over the featuring role of Queen Elizabeth II from Claire Foy, who had played the more youthful Elizabeth for the Netflix series' initial two seasons.

Colman, who was 43 when she won the role, went on to play the Queen in middle age, starting in 1963. Foy assumed the role in a time period that started in 1947, six years before Elizabeth's royal celebration as Queen of England. Foy is 10 years more youthful than Colman.

In 2018, Colman featured in the comedy-drama The Favorite as Queen Anne, a mid eighteenth century British ruler dedicated more to her whimsical advantages than to overseeing her country. In September 2019, at the 2019 Emmy Awards show, Colman was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series because of her performance in Fleabag.