Want to know who is Wednesday star Gwendoline Christie’s partner? Popular English actress Gwendoline Christie rose to huge fame and success after portraying the role of Brienne Tarth in the hit HBO fantasy drama series, Game of Thrones. Fans recently saw the actress in the Netflix fantasy series, The Sandman, and Wednesday.
While talking about her character in the newly released Netflix series, Wednesday, as she plays the role of Nevermore Academy’s principal, Larissa Weems, the actress admitted that the role made her feel “beautiful.”
She further revealed how she saw iconic actors like Tippi Hedren and Kim Novak for inspiration while explaining how she likes to transform into characters and people who are the complete opposite of herself. Let us take a look at all the details and lesser-known facts about Gwendoline Christie’s partner.
Who is Gwendoline Christie’s partner?
Gwendoline Christie’s partner is Giles Deacon. While the actress has been notoriously private about her personal life, it has been revealed that the two stars started dating on New Year’s Eve in 2012. However, before romance bloomed between the two, the two were friends. A mutual friend played Cupid for the two, and the rest is history.
The actress has been very supportive of her beau as she was wearing a Giles dress from the Spring/Summer 2016 collection while stating how she truly believes in him as an artist while calling him one of her favorite designers, and further added how Giles has an exquisite artistic vision with a brilliant and highly developed discipline.
Christie explained how this kind of artist is rare and should be celebrated. Giles Deacon has shared somewhat similar emotions as he revealed how Christie was the primary inspiration for his first couture collection and what a pleasure it was to work with his partner.
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Who is Giles Deacon?
Giles Deacon is a renowned name in the fashion industry. His work has won several impressive accolades, including Best New Designer in 2004, Elle’s Best New Designer award in February 2005, and Fashion Designer of the Year at the GQ Awards in 2009. Not to forget, Giles Deacon was named British Designer of the Year back in 2006 at the British Fashion Awards.
Deacon has worked with some of the leading names, including Sarah Jessica Parker, Kate Hudson, and Billy Porter. The fashion designer also worked as the creative director and founder of Giles Deacon group, Couture Fashion House and went on to launch his first collection in 2004.
He was named creative director of Ungaro in 2010 but left the position back in 2011 and later launched his first haute couture collection in 2016. Deacon has worked for the royal family as well as he had earlier designed the wedding dress of Pippa Middleton back in 2017.
Have Gwendoline Christie and Giles Deacon worked together?
Giles Deacon had recalled in an early interview said how when he first met Christie, he was smitten with her. The designer further recalled how he met Gwendoline six years ago through a mutual friend and was instantly smitten, and for a million different reasons, he thought she was extraordinary.
Giles further said how she carries herself was not like anything he has seen before. The two are separated in age by 10 years, as Deacon is ten years older than Christie. The two were spotted together as Deacon escorted Christie to the 2019 Emmys, where the actress was nominated for the first time.
The two have also joined forces on a few projects together as well. Gwendoline Christie starred as Titania and Hippolyta and it was Giles who designed two dresses for her performance.
While talking about his ladylove, Deacon started by saying how she is a character herself, and her trial of various characters is brilliant, while further calling it pretty transformative and how it is always an interesting thing from a designer’s point of view.
