He proved himself to be a master of smoke and mirrors playing the insufferable MI5 agent Spider Webb in the Apple TV+ series Slow Horses.
Now actor Freddie Fox, a member of the famous acting dynasty, has demonstrated that he is just as adept at maintaining a spy’s low profile.
Freddie, 35, son of veteran actors Edward Fox and Joanna David, and younger brother of Silent Witness star Emilia, has been dating Sex Education star Tanya Reynolds for almost four years.
Yet apart from one red carpet appearance, while promoting the 17th-century drama Fanny Lye Deliver’d, in which they both starred, they have not been photographed together in public.
Actor Freddie Fox, 35, spotted out and about with his Sex Education star Tanya Reynolds
Slow Horses actor Freddie at the BAFTA gala earlier this year at the Peninsula Hotel in London
Freddie and his girlfriend of four years Tanya hold hands as they walk down the street.
This is the first time the couple have been seen together in public, having kept their relationship private until now.
Today they went public for the first time, walking hand in hand in Chelsea, southwest London. Wrapped up against the cold, they look almost unrecognizable from their well-groomed appearance at the film’s premiere, don’t they.
Freddie and Tanya, 32, met on the set of Fanny Lye Deliver’d and the pair, who played young couple Thomas Ashbury and Rebecca Henshaw, are said to be isolating together at their home in London during the coronavirus pandemic. Both actors are used to playing real characters.
Tanya, named Screen International Star of Tomorrow, played Queen Victoria in the NBC/Universal series Dodger alongside Christopher Eccleston and David Threlfall.
Freddie and Tanya as Charles Marlow and Kate Hardcastle in the theater production She Stoops to Conquer
And Freddie, who previously dated Pride & Prejudice actress Tamzin Merchant, played Marilyn in the Boy George biopic Worried About The Boy, and Margaret Thatcher’s son Mark in the popular Netflix series The Crown.
He once said that he would never put a label on his sexuality: “I wouldn’t want to say ‘I am this or I am that’ because at one point in my life, yes, I had girlfriends, but I could fall in love with a man.
“I hope I can say that I’m the kind of person who would necessarily fall in love with people rather than sexes, even though the majority of my life to date has been that of a heterosexual man.”
Now maybe he’s a true master of disguise.
