Jonathan Stamp, Alex Kingston’s husband, is also in show business. Find out the actress’s family, children and net worth. The English actress is best known for her roles in the NBC medical drama ER as Dr. Elizabeth Corday and the ITV miniseries The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders.
Alex has played River Song in Doctor Who, Dinah Lance in Arrow and Mrs Bennet in Lost in Austen since the early 1980s. She debuted in 1980 with a small role in St. Trinian’s, then as Jill Harcourt in Grange Hill, and the rest is history.
Who is Jonathan Stamp, Alex Kingston’s husband and children?
Alex Kingston has been married three times and has one child, Salome Violetta Haertel (born March 28, 2001). Alex married television producer Jonathan Stamp in 2015. The couple tied the knot in a beautiful Italian wedding. Jonathan is also in the entertainment industry; he is a producer, screenwriter, director and actor best known for his work on Building the Great Pyramid and Reinventando Hollywood. In 1993, Alex married the English actor Ralph Fiennes for the first time. They met when they were both students at RADA and got married after 10 years of dating. Ralph had an affair with Hamlet co-star Francesca Annis in 1995 and left Alex the following year; the two divorced in 1997.
Alex admitted that he almost attempted suicide after his split with Ralph in a 2006 interview. At the end of 1998, she married Florian Haertel, a German writer and freelance journalist. She met him a year earlier on a blind date arranged for her by mutual acquaintances. Salome is the daughter of Alex and Florian. However, the marriage was officially dissolved in 2013.
Parents and family of Alex Kingston
Alexandra Elizabeth Kingston was born in Epsom, Surrey, to Anthony Kingston and Margaretha (née Renneisen) Kingston. Margarethe is German, while Anthony is English. Alex’s great-great-grandmother on her father’s side was Jewish, as she explored in the book Who Do You Think You Are? series. Similarly, her uncle, her mother’s younger brother, is a German actor and theater owner, Walter Renneisen, who performed at the Schauspiel Bochum, Staatstheater Darmstadt and Theater Dortmund.
Alex has two younger sisters named Susie and Nicola. Susie is intellectually and physically handicapped as a result of deprivation at birth. Nicola is a former actress who starred with Alex in The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders, a 1996 British drama. One of Alexa’s teachers at Rosebery Girls’ School in Epsom, Surrey, encouraged her to pursue acting. She then auditioned and played Mrs Fitzpatrick in Surrey County Theatre’s production of Tom Jones, opposite Tom Davison as Thwackum and Sean Pertwee as Captain Fitzpatrick. Alex completed a three-year program at RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art) before joining the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Alex Kingston Net Worth
According to Celebrity Net Worth, actress Alex Kingston has a net worth of $6 million. Her active participation in the entertainment industry since 1980 earned her the status of a multi-millionaire. She made her screen debut as a student in the British comedy The Wildcats of St. Trinian’s from 1980. Since then she has appeared in films such as A Pin for the Butterfly, Carrington, Croupier, Essex Boys, Sweet Land, Alpha Dog, Like Crazy and many more.
Alex made her television debut as Jill Harcourt in Grange Hill, after which she starred in The Bill, Crocodile Shoes, The Knock, ER, Arrow and other series. Alex has received several honors and accolades, including a Screen Actors Guild Award for her work on ER, a Doctor Who Magazine Award, an Airlock Alpha Portal Award and an SFX Award for Doctor Who. She was named Woman of the Year at Anglophenia’s Fan Favorites Women’s Tournament in 2013.
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