He is among the most sought-after main males – and recognized for being a stunning man off display, too.
Nevertheless pals say Happy Valley star James Norton is quietly nursing heartbreak after splitting from fiancée Imogen Poots.
I am advised the couple, who shared a house in East London, parted methods earlier than Christmas after ‘rising aside’.
Each 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
Each 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 Vary 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 Completely satisfied Valley finale, James stated of his busy appearing life: ‘It comes as a value since you do not see one another rather a lot, however we’re prepared to pay that for the good thing about 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 acquired collectively after assembly throughout a run of the play Belleville on the Donmar Warehouse in 2017 and acquired 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.
Nevertheless 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 is just not 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 School earlier than studying Theology at Cambridge, has not too long ago accomplished Pleasure, a Netflix movie in regards to the first ‘check tube child’ Louise Brown.
He’s now making Enjoying Good, a 4 half ITV drama about dad and mom who uncover that their youngsters had been by chance switched at start. James is an government producer of that present through his personal firm, Rabbit Observe Productions.
The pair additionally seem to have unfollowed one another on social media, and Imogen is just not amongst these liking any of Norton’s latest Instagram posts in regards to the movie
In an interview final 12 months to advertise the Completely satisfied Valley finale he stated of his busy appearing life: ‘It comes as a value since you do not see one another rather a lot’ (James pictured)
Imogen and James met after they starred alongside one another in Belleville on the Donmar Warehouse in the course of the summer time of 2017
They acquired engaged in February 2022 (pictured collectively in January 2020)
Of the Completely satisfied Valley finale, which noticed escaped prisoner Tommy Lee Royce in a last confrontation with Sgt Catherine Cawood, played by Sarah Lancashire, he stated: ‘That scene with Sarah was one of the particular scenes I’ve ever shot. The entire set was quiet, like being in a church.
‘She was spectacular and I felt I used to be going good work. Often I’m going off set and I am like: ‘Oh no, I ****ed it up! It is terrible! I hate myself. Life’s garbage!’
Within the closing scenes of Completely satisfied Valley, Cawood rang her sister Clare and advised her that she had had a last encounter with Tommy. ‘We have had one other little bit of a tussle. I gained, clearly. I feel I may need singed one in every of your crocheted blankets.’
The couple’s romance started in December 2017 a number of months after James cut up from Irish singer and actress Jessie Buckley, 34 (pictured in April 2017)- he was along with her for 2 years
The couple’s romance started in December 2017 a number of 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 Struggle and Peace, which got here out in 2016.
On the time, Jessie stated the cut up was ‘acrimonious’, placing it down partly to the issue of courting a fellow actor.
James and Imogen initially had a protracted distance relationship (between New York and London), which she beforehand opened up on throughout an interview with The Night Commonplace.
She stated: ‘It is all I’ve ever recognized. I’ve by no means recognized one thing to crumble due to distance.’
‘Sharing a rest room, nonetheless, is kind of one other matter,’ she added.
Imogen (left) starred in The Father alongside Olivia Colman and Anthony Hopkins in 2020
However in 2020, Imogen – who starred in The Father with Anthony Hopkins – moved into James’s London pad, earlier than establishing dwelling collectively.
Imogen is greatest recognized for enjoying Tammy within the post-apocalyptic horror movie 28 Weeks Later, and portraying Jesse Crichton in A Lengthy Means 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 recognized, I’ve by no means recognized one thing to crumble due to distance,’ she advised The Standard.
‘I discover work to be my joyful place, in a manner. As a result of it’s all I’ve ever recognized: packing up a bag and shifting on.
‘That restlessness that’s inherent in you could be very addictive. And I suppose now I’m imagined to decelerate and arrange a farm or one thing.
‘However I’m not prepared to try this. I wish to maintain exploring the world.’
James beforehand stated his 2020 movie, Nowhere Particular, wherein he performed the dying father of a three-year-old boy, kicked off his ‘broody barometer’ and he was eager to turn out to be a dad.
