Jamie Dornan’s wife Amelia Warner is an English musician, composer, and former actress best known for The Seeker: The Dark is Rising (2007). She is the only daughter of the only child of English actress Annette Ekblom and Welsh actor Alun Lewis. Amelia has been married to Jamie Dornan since 2013, and they have three daughters, namely Dulcie Dornan, Alberta Dornan, and Elva Dornan.
Their union is a few years shy of attaining the ten years marital milestone and for those who keep up with the couple, it has been inspiring all through, despite the fact that they both work in an industry notorious for failed marriages and relationships.
Dornan is a model and musician, but he is mostly known as an actor from Northern Ireland. He has portrayed numerous characters across the small and big screens and many people got to know him through his portrayal of Christian Grey in the Fifty Shades film series — Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker, and Fifty Shades Freed.
With the popularity of the film series, people took to describing Amelia Warner as “the wife of the Fifty Shades actor.” While that is true, it is a disservice to her identity. Amelia has been a supportive wife and a loving mother, but the entirety of her life doesn’t revolve around those facts.
She is a successful career woman who has been active in the entertainment industry since 1999. She explored acting before she decided to focus on being a musician and a composer.
From the family she came from to the one she has built with Jamie Dornan, the English woman has a lot to be thankful for. But her life hasn’t been all rosy, as you would soon learn, she has experienced some disappointments both in her career and in her love life.
Profile Summary of Amelia Warner
- Full Name: Amelia Catherine Bennett
- Nicknames: Millie and Boss Queen
- Gender: Female
- Date of Birth: June 4, 1982
- Amelia Warner’s Age: 41 Years Old
- Ethnicity: White British
- Nationality: British
- Zodiac Sign: Gemini
- Sexual Orientation: Straight
- Religion: Christianity
- Marital Status: Married
- Spouse: Jamie Dornan (2013 – Present)
- Children: Three Daughters (Dulcie, Elva Lorna Catherine, and Alberta Maeve Dornan)
- Amelia Warner’s Parents: Annette Ekblom and Alun Lewis
- Amelia Warner’s Height in Inches: 5 Feet 6 Inch
- Amelia Warner’s Height in Centimetres: 168 cm
- Amelia Warner’s Weight: 53 kg
- Body Measurements in Inches: 35-24-33 Inches
- Body Measurement in Centimeters: 89-61-84 cm
- Amelia Warner’s Net Worth: $3 Million
- Famous For: Career In Entertainment and Marriage to Jamie Dornan
- Amelia Warner’s Instagram: awarnermusic
The 41 Years Old Brit Was Born In Birkenhead, Merseyside, But Spent Most of Her Early Life In London
Amelia is roughly a month younger than her husband James Dornan. As you would easily find, the famous actor from Holywood, County Down, Northern Ireland, was born to Professor Jim Dornan and Lorna Dornan on the 1st of May 1982. He is 42 years old, just like his wife who was born on the 4th of June 1982.
Dornan’s wife was born in Birkenhead, a town you would find in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England. She was raised there until she was four years old. At that age, her parents parted ways and with her mom, she relocated to London where she spent most of her early life.
Amelia schooled at The Royal Masonic School for Girls, an independent school located in Rickmansworth, England. When she was 16 years old, she proceeded to the College of Fine Arts in London. She would later attend Goldsmiths College also in London where she studied art history.
Amelia Warner belongs to the White British extraction: she is of Welsh, Swedish, and Irish ancestry. From what we learned, her maternal grandfather was of Swedish and Irish descent whereas her father is Welsh. The British entertainer has no siblings, she is the only child her parents had before their marriage packed up in 1986.
Amelia Warner Came From a Family of Notable Entertainers
Dornan and his wife probably have a lot in common. Apart from the fact that they both have their careers in the entertainment industry, they both come from a family of notable entertainers. Dornan’s father Jim Dornan aspired to become an actor before he became a professor of obstetrics and gynecology. More so, his two older sisters Jessica and Liesa are known to be somewhat involved in entertainment and showbiz.
Jessica is a fashion designer based in Falmouth, England, whereas Liesa works for Disney in London. Amelia Warner has no siblings but her parents are actors. Her father Alun Lewis was active in the industry from the 1970s to 2001. He is best known for his portrayal of Darryl Stubbs and Vic Windsor in Birds of a Feather and Emmerdale, respectively.
He was also a member of the English country-rock trio, The Woolpackers, alongside his Emmerdale co-stars, Steve Halliwell and Billy Hartman. His ex-wife, Amelia’s mother Annette Ekblom is still active in the business. Most recently, she was seen in the “Isabelle” episode of the TV series, Moving On.
The works that define her career include the role of Linda in Willy Russell’s musical Blood Brothers, and Debbie Gordon in Brookside, a British soap opera that ran for 21 years. Apart from her parents, she is related to the famous Welsh actor that passed in July 2017, Hywel Bennett. Remembered for his roles in productions like The Family Way (1966) and Shelley (1979 – 1992), Hywel was Amelia’s uncle, her father’s brother to be precise.
Jamie Dornan’s Wife Began Her Career in Entertainment With Royal Court’s Youth Theatre
Given the kind of family she came from, it is only natural that Amelia Warner pursued and built a career in entertainment. It all started when she and her friends created and performed a play at Covent Garden in London.
As fate would have it, a talent agent spotted her and through the agent, she became a member of London Royal Court Theatre’s Youth program. This marked the beginning of her professional career as an actress. She made her screen debut in 1998 when she played Gaynor Deans in the “Memento Mori” episode of Kavanagh QC and Rachel Munro in the “Eye Spy” episode of Casualty.
In the years that followed, she was seen in multiple television productions like Aristocrats, Don Quixote, Walking the Dead, Lorna Doone, and Take a Girl Like You. If we are not mistaken, she made her big-screen debut in 1999 when she played Teenage Fanny in the comedy-drama, romance film directed by Patricia Rozema, Mansfield Park.
Has Amelia Warner Retired from Acting?
Since she made her professional debut as an actress, Amelia Warner has been seen in no fewer than 23 television and movie roles. Her most recent movie role was in 2012 when she played Rachel in The Other Side, a short horror mystery film directed by Alex Santoro and Oli Santoro. As it has been a decade since Amelia Warner portrayed a character, many have come to wonder if she has given up on acting.
Jamie Dornan’s wife confirmed in one of her interviews that her acting days are over. According to her, she decided to abandon acting and focus on being a musician because she no longer found it fulfilling. She explained that she felt unfulfilled as an actress because she had no control over the creative process. It was frustrating for her to often realize that the films she made were “completely different” from what was eventually released.
Amelia had earlier stated that she didn’t want to become a movie star but to stay below the radar and make good films. As she was not living the dream, she decided to quit and focus on music which affords her more creative control.
Insight Into Her Works as a Musician and Composer
Right from her childhood days, Amelia Warner has been passionate about composing music and writing songs. Using the name Slow Moving Millie, she began creating music and pulled off her first major project when she scored the British short film, Mam (2010). 2011 came and she released her debut studio album titled Renditions. Her next release was an EP produced by Fyfe Dangerfield titled Arms.
It was a successful project that saw her attain the No. 1 spot on iTunes classical music charts. Thereafter, she dropped her second EP titled Visitors which also reached the top spot on iTunes. In 2016, the former actress pulled off another feat as she scored her first feature-length film, Mum’s List (2016). After this, she scored Mary Shelley, a 2017 biographical drama film directed by Haifaa Al-Mansour.
It earned her a nomination for the World Soundtrack Awards under the Discovery of the Year category; this was in 2018, the same year she won the IFMCA Award for Breakthrough Composer of the Year. Other productions she has scored include Acres and Acres (2016), Leading Lady Parts (2018), and Wild Mountain Thyme (2020). It was also in 2020 that she dropped Haven, another extended play.
Amelia Warner Met Her Husband At A Party In 2007 and They Started Dating In 2010
Jamie Dornan and his wife Amelia Warner, according to some reports, met in 2007 at a party. Details of the circumstances surrounding the beginning of their relationship are best known to them. The couple has been quite discreet about making their relationship a subject for public discussion, so how they fell in love is a tale yet to be fully unraveled. What we can confirm is that it was love at first sight or something close to that for the Fifty Shades actor.
In a rare instance when he talked about their relationship, he disclosed that Amelia had him smitten from the onset, but added that he was more in love with her then than he was at the start. The couple began dating sometime in 2010 and moved in together in an apartment in Notting Hill, West London. Two years into the relationship, Jamie was convinced he want to spend the rest of his life with the former actress. He proposed to Amelia in 2012, she said yes, and they officially became an engaged couple.
They wasted no time in getting married as they walked down the aisle the following year, precisely on the 27th of April. The ceremony took place at Orchardleigh House in Somerset. In all, they have been together for over a decade and it has been a blissful union for them. This doesn’t mean there haven’t been rumors of them having marital issues.
An instance was the speculations that followed Jamie’s portrayal of Christian Grey in the first installment of the Fifty Shades franchise. It was claimed in some quarters that the explicit role he played alongside Dakota Johnson had constituted a problem to their marriage. This is not true.
Amelia was so supportive of her husband that she traveled with him to Vancouver, Canada, while he was filming the project despite being heavily pregnant with one of their kids. She has also been seen beside her husband in all the premieres of the three movies that made up the series. Nonetheless, she has refused to watch any of the films. Jamie understands this, he once stated that it is even uncomfortable for him to watch.
Their Union Has Been Blessed With Three Daughters Thus Far
Before Amelia Warner and Jamie Dornan got married in April 2013, they were already expecting their first child together. It was on the 21st of November 2013 that they had their first daughter named Dulcie Dornan. Unlike her younger sisters who were both born in London, England, she was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Over two years after they had their first child, the couple welcomed their second daughter named Elva Lorna Catherine Dornan: she was born on the 16th of February 2016. Their youngest daughter, Alberta Maeve Dornan, was born on the 17th of February 2019. From the oldest to the youngest, Warner and Dornan’s daughters are 10, 8, and 5 years old.
Who Was Amelia Warner’s First Husband?
Amelia isn’t the first love of the Fifty Shades of Grey actor. Before she became a part of his life, he had been romantically involved with famous women like Keira Knightley, Kate Moss, Lindsay Lohan, and Mischa Barton.
This is also true for Amelia Warner. Before she met and fell in love with Jamie Dornan, she had dated prominent men like Joaquin Phoenix, Colin Farrell, and Adam Gracia. Her relationship with Colin lasted for over a year and the Irish actor is often named as her first husband. This is so because they had a non-legal wedding on a beach in Tahiti while they dated. Be that as it may, the fact remains that they never really got married. In Warner’s words, it was meant to be “a joke and not legal”. So, Jamie Dornan is the first husband of his wife, Amelia Warner.
