James Norton splits from his fiancée Imogen Poots after six years
He is among the most sought-after main males – and identified for being a stunning man off display, too.
However buddies say Happy Valley star James Norton is quietly nursing heartbreak after splitting from fiancée Imogen Poots.
I’m informed the couple, who shared a house in East London, parted methods earlier than Christmas after ‘rising aside’.
Both have been working nearly continually, with James, 38, filming the Bob Marley biopic One Love which premiered in Los Angeles and London this week.
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IHappy Valley star James Norton is quietly nursing heartbreak after splitting from fiancée Imogen Poots. Imogen was final seen with James in March 2023
Both have been working nearly continually, with James, 38, filming the Bob Marley biopic One Love which premiered in Los Angeles and London this week
Imogen, 34, frolicked in New Mexico in 2022 making the drama Outer Range with James Brolin and is now on set in Northamptonshire making Hedda, a brand new adaptation of Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler.
In an interview final 12 months to advertise the Happy Valley finale, James mentioned of his busy appearing life: ‘It comes as a price since you do not see one another so much, however we’re prepared to pay that for the advantage of having somebody in your life near you who will get it, who’s forgiving, who will surrender their Sunday to do an annoying self-tape (audition).’
They bought collectively after assembly throughout a run of the play Belleville on the Donmar Warehouse in 2017 and bought engaged in February 2022.
Imogen was final seen with James after the opening night time of A Little Life, an adaptation of the Hanya Yanagihara novel, in March 2023.
However there was no signal of her at any of the One Love premieres, in Jamaica, LA or London.
The pair additionally seem to have unfollowed one another on social media, and Imogen isn’t amongst these liking any of Norton’s latest Instagram posts in regards to the movie.
Spokesmen for Imogen and James didn’t return requests for remark this week.
James, who went to Ampleforth College earlier than studying Theology at Cambridge, has not too long ago accomplished Joy, a Netflix movie in regards to the first ‘take a look at tube child’ Louise Brown.
He is now making Playing Nice, a 4 half ITV drama about mother and father who uncover that their youngsters had been by accident switched at delivery. James is an government producer of that present through his personal firm, Rabbit Track Productions.
The pair additionally seem to have unfollowed one another on social media, and Imogen isn’t amongst these liking any of Norton’s latest Instagram posts in regards to the movie
In an interview final 12 months to advertise the Happy Valley finale he mentioned of his busy appearing life: ‘It comes as a price since you do not see one another so much’ (James pictured)
Imogen and James met after they starred alongside one another in Belleville on the Donmar Warehouse in the course of the summer season of 2017
They bought engaged in February 2022 (pictured collectively in January 2020)
Of the Happy Valley finale, which noticed escaped prisoner Tommy Lee Royce in a last confrontation with Sgt Catherine Cawood, performed by Sarah Lancashire, he mentioned: ‘That scene with Sarah was one of the crucial particular scenes I’ve ever shot. The complete set was quiet, like being in a church.
‘She was spectacular and I felt I used to be going good work. Usually I am going off set and I’m like: ‘Oh no, I ****ed it up! It’s terrible! I hate myself. Life’s garbage!’
In the closing scenes of Happy Valley, Cawood rang her sister Clare and informed her that she had had a last encounter with Tommy. ‘We’ve had one other little bit of a tussle. I received, clearly. I believe I may need singed one in all your crocheted blankets.’
The couple’s romance started in December 2017 just a few months after James cut up from Irish singer and actress Jessie Buckley, 34 (pictured in April 2017)- he was together with her for 2 years
The couple’s romance started in December 2017 just a few months after James cut up from Irish singer and actress Jessie Buckley, 34 – who he was with for 2 years.
James and Jessie met after starring within the six-part dramatisation of Tolstoy’s War and Peace, which got here out in 2016.
At the time, Jessie mentioned the cut up was ‘acrimonious’, placing it down partly to the issue of courting a fellow actor.
James and Imogen initially had an extended distance relationship (between New York and London), which she beforehand opened up on throughout an interview with The Evening Standard.
She mentioned: ‘It’s all I’ve ever identified. I’ve by no means identified one thing to collapse due to distance.’
‘Sharing a toilet, nonetheless, is sort of one other matter,’ she added.
Imogen (left) starred in The Father alongside Olivia Colman and Anthony Hopkins in 2020
But in 2020, Imogen – who starred in The Father with Anthony Hopkins – moved into James’s London pad, earlier than establishing dwelling collectively.
Imogen is finest identified for enjoying Tammy within the post-apocalyptic horror movie 28 Weeks Later, and portraying Jesse Crichton in A Long Way Down.
That 12 months, Imogen spoke about their lengthy distance romance as she cut up her time between London and New York.
‘It’s all I’ve ever identified, I’ve by no means identified one thing to collapse due to distance,’ she informed The Standard.
‘I discover work to be my completely happy place, in a method. Because it’s all I’ve ever identified: packing up a bag and transferring on.
‘That restlessness that’s inherent in you may be very addictive. And I suppose now I’m presupposed to decelerate and arrange a farm or one thing.
‘But I’m not prepared to try this. I need to maintain exploring the world.’
James beforehand mentioned his 2020 movie, Nowhere Special, during which he performed the dying father of a three-year-old boy, kicked off his ‘broody barometer’ and he was eager to change into a dad.
