Jonathan Stamp, Alex Kingston’s husband, is also in show business. Discover the Actress’s family, children, and net worth. The English actress is best known for her roles in the NBC medical drama ER as Dr. Elizabeth Corday and the ITV miniseries The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders.
Alex has played River Song in Doctor Who, Dinah Lance in Arrow, and Mrs. Bennet in Lost in Austen since the early 1980s. She made her début in 1980 with a tiny part in St. Trinian’s then as Jill Harcourt in Grange Hill, and the rest is history.
Who Is Jonathan Stamp, Alex Kingston’s Husband and Children?
Alex Kingston has been married three times and has one kid, Salome Violetta Haertel (born March 28, 2001). Alex married television producer Jonathan Stamp in 2015. The couple married in a lovely Italian wedding. Jonathan is also in the entertainment industry; he is a producer, screenwriter, director, and actor best known for his work on Building the Great Pyramid and Reinventando Hollywood. In 1993, Alex married English actor Ralph Fiennes for the first time. They met while both students at RADA and married after 10 years of dating. Ralph had an affair with his Hamlet co-star Francesca Annis in 1995 and left Alex the following year; the two divorced in 1997.
Alex admitted to almost attempting suicide after splitting up with Ralph in a 2006 interview. She married Florian Haertel, a German writer, and freelance journalist, at the end of 1998. She’d met him the year before on a blind date set up by their mutual acquaintances. Salome is Alex and Florian’s daughter. The marriage, however, officially dissolved in 2013.
Alex Kingston’s Parents And Family
Alexandra Elizabeth Kingston was born in Epsom, Surrey, to Anthony Kingston and Margarethe (née Renneisen) Kingston. Margarethe is German, whilst Anthony is English. Alex’s paternal great-great-grandmother was Jewish, which she researched in the Who Do You Think You Are? series. Similarly, her uncle, her mother’s younger brother, is German actor and theater owner Walter Renneisen, who has performed at the Schauspiel Bochum, Staatstheater Darmstadt, and Theater Dortmund.
Alex has two younger sisters named Susie and Nicola. Susie is intellectually and physically handicapped as a result of her birth deprivation. Nicola is a former actress who co-starred with Alex in The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders, a 1996 British Drama TV film. One of Alex’s teachers at Rosebery School for Girls in Epsom, Surrey, urged her to pursue acting. She then auditioned for and played Mrs. Fitzpatrick in Surrey County Youth Theatre’s production of Tom Jones, opposite Tom Davison as Thwackum and Sean Pertwee as Captain Fitzpatrick. Alex went on to complete a three-year program at RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art) before joining the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Alex Kingston’s Net Worth
According to Celebrity Net Worth, actress Alex Kingston has a net worth of $6 million. Her active participation in the entertainment industry since 1980 has earned her a multimillionaire. She made her screen debut as a schoolgirl in the 1980 British comedy The Wildcats of St. Trinian’s. She has since appeared in films such as A Pin for the Butterfly, Carrington, Croupier, Essex Boys, Sweet Land, Alpha Dog, Like Crazy, and more.
Alex made her television debut as Jill Harcourt in Grange Hill, subsequently starring in The Bill, Crocodile Shoes, The Knock, ER, Arrow, and other shows. Alex has earned several honors and distinctions, including Screen Actors Guild distinctions for her work on ER, the Doctor Who Magazine Award, the Airlock Alpha Portal Award, and the SFX Awards for Doctor Who. She was named Woman of the Year in Anglophenia’s Fan Favorites Women’s Tournament in 2013.
