The acting couple on second chances, family dynamics, and losing their daughter

Born in Albrighton, Shropshire, in 1962, Jason Watkins is a Bafta-award-winning actor best known for his comic and dramatic roles in TV hits such as W1A, Line of Duty and The Crown. He met fellow actor Clara Francis in 1991, backstage at a production of Timon of Athens. The pair married in 2014, and in 2023 made In Memory of Maudie, a documentary about their two-year-old daughter, Maude, who died of sepsis in 2011. Francis is the co-founder of the fashion label O Pioneers. Watkins stars in Coma, available on My5 now.

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