James McAvoy and Anne-Marie Duff expecting first child
(HMG) – UK acting husband and wife James McAvoy, and Anne-Marie Duff are expecting their first child, the couple have announced. McAvoy, 30, and Duff, 39 who is nine years his senior, met in 2003 on the set of the drama Shameless when she played McAvoy’s feisty girlfriend Fiona Gallagher. The couple, who shun the celebrity limelight, married in a low-key ceremony in October 2006.
McAvoy is better known for his Hollywood career with starring roles in movies such as Wanted, Atonement, and the Narnia Chronicles. But Duff has become a respected TV and theatre actress, playing the likes of Queen Elizabeth in BBC series The Virgin Queen.
Duff, who has been nominated for three Bafta TV awards and a Bafta Film award for Nowhere Boy, in which she played John Lennon’s mother, recently said she wanted to become a mother, saying: “I would love to have a baby.”
Pointing towards the sky, she added: “As soon as the big fella makes it happen, it would be brilliant. I’m not putting it off but unfortunately bodies don’t work that way.”
Speaking at the London premiere of his latest film, The Last Station, which also stars wife Anne-Marie Duff and Dame Helen Mirren, McAvoy said: ”It’s excellent, it feels really great. I’m totally looking forward to being a dad. She looks fantastic. It’s a McDuff adventure,” he said.
