Lydia Fox: All about Richard Ayoade’s wife

Lydia Fox is a British Actress and the wife of Richard Ayoade. Lydia Fox’s husband is a British actor, broadcaster, comedian, director, and writer. He is best known for his role as socially awkward IT technician Maurice Moss in Channel 4 sitcom The IT Crowd, for which he won the 2014 BAFTA for Best Male Comedy Performance. Lydia Fox and his husband have two children.

Lydia Fox: Bio Summary

How old is the wife of Richard Ayoade?

Lydia Fox was born in 1979, as of 2024, she is 45 years old. Fox is the daughter of the actor James Fox and ‘Mary Elizabeth Piper‘, and the sister of Laurence Fox Thomas Fox, Jack Fox, and Robin Fox. Lydia is the only girl of the couple. From an extensive family of actors, a large portion of the Fox family is involved in acting, including her father, three of her four brothers, her uncles, her husband, and her sister-in-law.

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Is Richard Ayoade still married?

On 8 September 2007, actor, comedian, writer, and director Richard Ayoade walked down the aisle with Lydia Fox and they have been together since. The couple have been together since their university days, and have often worked together professionally.

Fox plays Miss Dutton in the coming-of-age comedy, Submarine, directed by her husband Richard Ayoade. She also produced 2013’s The Double, which her husband Ayoade directed. In 2019 and 2021 Lydia starred alongside Tilda Swinton in The Souvenir parts one and two the Sun reported.

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Fox studied at Newnham College at the University of Cambridge and Richard attended St Catharine’s College. The couple met at a theatre performance at university where Lydia was in the audience and Richard onstage. After dating for a while Richard Ayoade and Lydia Fox took their relationship to the next level and got married in 2007. Lydia Fox and her husband live in East Dulwich in the London Borough of Southwark, England.

Do Richard Ayoade and his wife Lydia Fox have any children?

Richard Ayoade and his wife Lydia Fox’s marriage has been blessed with three children. The couple has been pictured on several occasions with their two daughters- Esme and Ida.

On an episode of The Sacred podcast, The IT Crowd actor revealed that his wife Lydia is the reader in his head for everything he writes. In an interview with The Sunday Times, Lydia Fox’s brother Laurence revealed his brother-in-law Richard refused to support him after his controversial appearance on BBC’s Question Time.

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Since February 2018, Fox’s husband Ayoade has been known for his numerous projects. He voiced Onion one of the title characters in the Cartoon Network animated series Apple & Onion. He also returned to music video directing in 2018, helming the science fiction-inspired video for The Breeders song “Spacewoman”. Ayoade was featured in a supporting role as a pompous artist in both parts of Joanna Hogg’s two-part drama The Souvenir. 

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Ayoade is a fan of French New Wave cinema and said in an interview with The Guardian that Louis Malle’s Zazie dans le Métro was the film that sparked his interest in filmmaking. His favorite filmmakers include Malle, Woody Allen, Ingmar Bergman, Orson Welles, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Melville, and Paul Thomas Anderson.