Olivia Colman opens up on gender identity as actor admits 'I've always felt nonbinary'
Olivia Colman admitted that she's never 'felt massively feminine' as part of a new interview and opened up about gender identity.
The Peep Show actor has been promoting her upcoming drama film Jimpa, which explores the life of Hannah (Colman) and her nonbinary daughter, Frances (Aud Mason-Hyde).
Both travel to Amsterdam in visit the latter's gay grandfather (John Lithgow) in a intergenerational story which has become one of the first mainstream films to feature a nonbinary main character.
But Colman, who won an Oscar for playing Princess Anne in The Favourite, and is known for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth in The Crown, said that she has never been comfortable with 'rigid gender roles'.
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The 52-year-old opened up on the topic in an interview with Them, where Colam admitted 'always sort of felt nonbinary'.
"Throughout my whole life, I've had arguments with people where I've always sort of felt nonbinary," Colman admitted, adding: "I've never felt massively feminine in my being female.
"I've always described myself to my husband as a gay man. And he goes 'yeah I get that'. And so I do feel at home and at ease."
The mum-of-three, who has been married to film producer Ed Sinclair since 2001, further explained: "I don't really spend a whole lot of time with people who are very staunchly heterosexual...
"The men I know and love are very in touch with all sides of themselves. I think with my husband and I, we take turns to be the 'strong one,' or the one who needs a little bit of gentleness. I believe everyone has all of it in them. I've always felt like that."
Colman highlighted: "I'm not alone in saying, 'I don't feel like it's binary'. And I loved that. I came away from making this film with, 'Yeah, I knew I wasn't alone.'"
The actress, who is a mother to kids Finn, 20, Hall, 18 and a ten year old daughter, met Sinclair at the rehearsals of the production of Table Manners, as he too was an actor at the time.
Sinclair would move onto screenwriting and producing, even producing what one of Colman's latest films, The Roses.
In the title, Colman stars opposite Benedict Cumberbatch as the doomed Roses couple, who are the focus of the black comedy.
Speaking more about how she met her husband, Colman said that 'there was no one particularly fanciable there', until she saw her future husband's 'left-hand profile'.
Colman recalled: "At the time he was smoking a ciggie, his feet were crossed, and he's got this lovely bump in his nose and I saw his side profile and just went, 'oh my God, I'm going to marry him'.
"I had proper thunderbolts: 'That's him, that's him!' Poor thing, he didn't know."
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