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Ed Speleers and His Wife Asia Macey Are Parents to Two Kids – Inside the ‘You’ Star’s Private Life
Ed Speleers is a British actor and producer best known for his role as the protagonist, Eragon, in the film adaptation of Christopher Paolini’s hit…
Ed Speleers is a British actor and producer best known for his role as the protagonist, Eragon, in the film adaptation of Christopher Paolini’s hit novel Eragon. Following Eragon, Speleers appeared in various television shows and films, including the British drama series Downton Abbey in 2012, where he played the role of footman Jimmy Kent.
He has also appeared in other TV shows, such as the BBC’s historical drama mini-series Wolf Hall, Beowulf: Return to the Shieldland, and Outlander.
In addition to acting, Speleers has expressed an interest in producing and has been involved in projects like Wale, directed by Barnaby Blackburn. The film was nominated for British Academy Film Awards in the short film category.
Speleers was last seen in the fourth season of You as the lead antagonist, Rhys Montrose, alongside Penn Badgley. The actor is currently set to star in an upcoming romantic comedy, Irish Wish, with Lindsay Lohan.
Ed Speleers is married to Asia Macey
Speleers is reported to have been married to Asia Macey. Briefly reported that the two met while shooting for Downtown Abbey in 2012, though that remains unconfirmed. The couple started dating soon after they met and got engaged in 2014, followed by a wedding in the same year. Speleers and Asia have been together ever since.
Speleers likes to keep his personal life extremely private, and not much is revealed about his relationship with Macey. However, a 2014 article from Daily Mail suggested that the two had quite a secret wedding followed by an intimate ceremony.
Ed Speleers and his wife Asia Macey at the COS and the Serpentine’s Dinner, 2015 (Source: Tatler)
“His mates were at a party for the Gentleman’s Journal and were referring to Asia as his wife. It seems like they have married in secret,” the source revealed to the publication.
Asia Macey is a costume designer
Macey is not an actress, but she is an integral part of the entertainment industry herself. Born in Bristol, South West England, Macey has been working as a British costume designer for numerous actors in various movies and TV shows.
Her trendy designs and meticulous attention to detail have graced projects like Broadchurch, Into the Woods, The Lady in the Van, and The Best of Men.
Macey’s recent work includes HBO’s His Dark Materials and Shekhar Kapur’s What’s Love Got to Do with it?
The designer started her career in 2010 as a costume trainee for Upstairs Downstairs and later joined Downtown Abbey as a personal dresser and wardrobe overseer.
Although married to an actor, Macey prefers to keep her professional career separate from her personal life. The designer is barely caught sharing details about her married life, family, or children.
Ed Speleers and Asia Macey have two children
The news of Speleers’ wedding with Macey was soon met with another when several articles reported that the couple were preparing to welcome their first child in 2015.
Their son Jude Speleers was born in January 2015, marking a new chapter in their life. Jude has a little sister, too, who was born in 2018. The name of the youngest is yet to be disclosed.
The actor makes use of his social media presence by sharing glimpses of himself, his wife and his children from time to time.
I wasn’t ready for this much cuteness so early in the day. pic.twitter.com/jVLeAwwQpC
— Ed Speleers News (@EdSpeleersNews)
Before the birth of his daughter, Speleers opened up about his decision to become a father in a 2016 interview with The Guardian.
“I’ll be honest – having a child wasn’t immediately on my radar, but it’s the best thing in the world, and I’m very lucky to have both (his wife and son) of them in my life,” he shared with the magazine.
While much information about the actor’s family remains undisclosed, his wife’s support and pictures of the actor with his children are evident enough to portray the beautiful bond that the Speleers family share.
Ed Speleers played an influential political figure in Netflix’s ‘You’
Speleers played the main antagonist on the fourth season of Netflix’s hit You. The actor’s character, Rhys Montrose, had written a book titled A Good Man in a Cruel World, which Badgely’s character finds to be one of the best memoirs in the world.
“Rhys doesn’t wear every little part of him on his sleeve. But he has a fierce curiosity of the world. He wants to understand people and humanity,” Speleers said to TUDUM. “Rhys [suggests] that everybody has things in their life that they might not be proud of, but they’re all worthy of getting a second chance.”
“I love the fact that he does some very broad, bold, bold suggestions,” Speleer added in his interview with Collider. “He does that in order to bring out a side to Joe that Joe’s probably trying to push away. And that’s what I love. He’s the devil on the shoulder, isn’t he?”
The show premiered in two parts – February 9 and March 9, 2023 on Netflix.