The 41-year-old actress – currently starring as Ellie Miller in ITV’s Broadchurch – has revealed she and novelist husband Ed Sinclair will welcome a baby later this year.
Olivia and Ed already have sons Finn, nine and seven-year-old Hall together and Olivia told the Daily Mirror newspaper: ‘We’re all very excited’.
Colman revealed the news when explaining why she will be unable to take part in a big-screen remake of her short film The Karman Line, which Spike Lee is directing.
The star, who says she has quite a while to go before the baby is born, told the paper: ‘i love Spike Lee and would certainly take his call but he’ll have to wait a while before we start anything.’
Although she captured the nation’s attention as Sophie Chapman in the side-splitting Peep Show and her role in Broadchurch has kept viewers gripped, Olivia voiced her fears about her acting future last year.
In an interview with the Sunday People, Olivia explained: ‘It’s harder to get roles as you get older.
‘I have a lot of friends that should be working and aren’t and that’s a real mystery and needs to change’.
And the Hot Fuzz star feels that it is not her acting ability that gets her parts.
She said: ‘I feel fortunate I’m not a classic beauty. I feel it is harder for girls who are like that. There are fewer parts.’
Olivia previously revealed she’s careful to make sure her husband knows he is appreciated.
‘When you’ve got children it’s easy to do that thing of keeping a tally of who woke up earliest and whose turn it is to put them to bed.
‘But I think the important thing is to appreciate and love each other and to show that appreciation.’
Source: dailymail.co.uk – Broadchurch’s Olivia Colman, 41 reveals she is pregnant with third child
