- Laura Donnelly, a Northern Irish actress
- Donnelly is most known for her role as Amalia True, a Victorian heroine with unusual abilities, in the sci-fi drama series The Nevers.
- She has not yet married but is romantically linked to Jeremy ‘Jez’ Butterworth, an English playwright, screenwriter, and film director.
Laura Donnelly, a Northern Irish actress, has not yet married but is romantically linked to Jeremy ‘Jez’ Butterworth, an English playwright, screenwriter, and film director.
Donnelly has been in programs such as Outlander, Casualty, and Hex, as well as the 2008 Irish thriller Insatiable.
Donnelly is most known for her role as Amalia True, a Victorian heroine with unusual abilities, in the sci-fi drama series The Nevers.
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Laura Donnelly, star of ‘The Nevers,’ is she married?
As previously said, the star of The Nevers is not yet married, but she is now dating Butterworth.
They’ve been together for a long, although it’s unclear when they originally started dating.
According to TheCinemaholic, the renowned couple began dating in 2015.
They have two daughters and live in London with their two children.
Donnelly and Butterworth have a strong professional background,
with the playwright having written plays that starred Donnelly and were produced on Broadway.
Jez penned the Tony-nominated play The Ferryman in collaboration with her,
which was inspired in part by her early experiences in Northern Ireland.
Donnelly is opposed to openly discussing her personal affairs.
According to the actress, the more personal information someone gives,
the more likely they are to be accused of desiring that kind of attention.
She once stated unequivocally on her Twitter account that she would not react to direct messages.
But it’s intriguing to see how her personal life connected with her work life when she starred in The Ferryman in London while pregnant with her second child.
Jeremy ‘Jez’ Butterworth is Laura Donnelly’s partner.
Butterworth is a British playwright, screenwriter, and filmmaker who was born in London in March 1969.
He has co-written screenplays with his brothers, John-Henry and Tom.
The director has three brothers, Tom, Steve, and John Henry, and one sister, Joanna.
He attended Verulam Comprehensive School in St. Albans and St. John’s College in Cambridge.
All of the brothers have experience working in theater and movies.
Steve is a producer, while Tom and John Henry are authors.
Butterworth’s play Mojo, which opened in 1995, won the Laurence Olivier,
Evening Standard, Writers Guild, George Devine, and Critics’ Circle Awards in 1996.
Butterworth’s The Ferryman premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in April 2017.
Under Sam Mendes’ direction, it became the play with the fastest sales in the Royal Court Theatre’s history.
The play won the Evening Standard Award for Best Play in 2017 and the Critics’ Circle Award for Best New Play in 2018.
It also received the 2019 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play as well as the Tony Award for Best Play.
His works include The Night Heron, The Winterling, Parlour Song, Jerusalem, The River, and many others.
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Laura Donnelly’s previous relationships
Laura Donnelly began dating Nathan Connolly, an Irish musician who
played guitar and sang backup for the well-known alternative rock band Snow Patrol, in the late 1990s.
Donnelly was cited as saying that she couldn’t spend her life with someone
who didn’t have an artistic background and didn’t understand
and respect her job throughout their long relationship.
According to the Belfast Telegraph, Donnelly and Connolly dated at least until 2013.
In a 2015 interview with the Independent, Donnelly revealed that her relationship with
Connolly had ended and she was seeing someone new, who also happened to be a writer.
She went on to say how nice it was to be with someone who was familiar with
the lives of performers, referring to her present partner, Jeremy Butterworth.
