Elizabeth Wood Dreifuss: Facts About Rupert Holmes’ wife

Elizabeth Wood Dreifuss is an American Lawyer and also the wife of Rupert Homes. Elizabeth Wood Dreifuss’ husband Holmes is a British-American composer, singer-songwriter, dramatist, and author. He is widely known for the hit singles “Escape” and “Him”.

Elizabeth Wood Dreifuss: Bio Summary

Apart from being a Lawyer, Elizabeth Wood Dreifuss is also popular as the wife of Rupert Holmes. Not much is known about the date of birth, age, and place of birth of Dreifuss. Her husband Holmes, on the other hand, was born on February 24, 1947, in Northwich, Cheshire, England; immigrated to the United States, in 1948.

He grew up in a musical family. His father, Leonard Eliot Goldstein, was a ranking warrant officer in the United States military and was stationed, at the time, in England. Leonard, and his wife, Gwendolen Mary, had strong musical backgrounds, so they taught Rupert and his brother, Richard. At the age of four, Holmes and his family moved to Nanuet, New York, where he grew to adulthood.

How did  Rupert Holmes and her wife Elizabeth Wood Dreifuss meet?

There isn’t much information available regarding the circumstances that brought the two love birds together. However, Holmes and Elizabeth were childhood friends. On April 17, 1969, the couple tied the knot in a beautiful ceremony in the presence of their friends, family, and loved ones. The couple had 3 children. Two sons and a daughter.

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Their daughter Wendy died suddenly in 1986, at the age of ten, of an undiagnosed brain tumor. Their two sons, Nick, a filmmaker, and Timothy, who is autistic. In 2009, they moved from Scarsdale, New York, where they had lived since Wendy’s death, to Cold Spring, New York. The couple has been married for more than 5 decades and their love is still growing stronger.

Dreifuss is a very supportive wife to Holmes. Her Husband made his professional debut as a playwright with the musical The Mystery of Edwin Drood in 1985. He was encouraged to write a musical by Joseph Papp and his wife after they attended one of Holmes’s cabarets in 1983.

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The result, loosely based on Charles Dickens’s unfinished novel of the same name, and inspired by Holmes’s memories of the English pantomime show he attended as a child, was a hit in New York’s Central Park and on Broadway. Because Dickens left the novel unfinished at his death, Holmes employed the unusual device of providing alternate endings for each character who is suspected of the murder and letting the audience vote on a different murderer each night.

The show earned Holmes the Tony Award for both book and score, as well as the Drama Desk Awards for lyrics, music, the book, and orchestrations, among various other honors. The musical has been given London and Broadway revivals, among others. The success of Drood would lead Holmes to write other plays (both musical and non-) in later years, though he has stated that he avoided musical theater for some time after the death of his daughter. Not much is known about the early and private life of Elizabeth Wood Dreifuss. She is not active on any social media.