Jackie Brygel reveals the reclusive actress who bore the star’s first son.
Accepting his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in early January, an emotional Colin Firth paid homage to his beautiful Italian wife Livia Giuggiolo, who has, he says, “walked every step of this with me, joyfully and truthfully. When I look down there at that star, it’s her name I see.”
Colin, 50, and film producer Livia, 40, have shared a fairytale existence since meeting on a movie set 15 years ago. And the UK actor has made it clear his roles as a devoted husband and hands-on father to their sons, Luca, 9, and Matteo, 7, are central to his life.
What’s not so widely known is that Colin has another, less public family he keeps very much out of the spotlight. And that spotlight has only grown more intense now he’s a hot Oscars favourite for his critically acclaimed role in The King’s Speech.
Woman’s Day can reveal that Colin also has a grown-up son named Will, who bears a striking resemblance to his famous father. The 20-year-old is the product of Colin’s earlier relationship with Meg Tilly, 50, a one-time Oscar-nominated actress who has since left Hollywood to live a low-key life in the Canadian countryside.
“He absolutely adores Will but he had to choose between family life in an isolated log cabin and working,” explains the actor’s sister Kate.
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