Gemma Arterton revealed she welcomed her first child - who is her husband Rory Keenan and when did they marry?

Gemma Arterton has confirmed that she welcomed her first child, a son, in December with husband Rory Keenan.

The couple confirmed they were expecting their first child together on November 4, 2022 when she displayed her blossoming baby bump for the first time at the Raindance Film Festival awards.

The 37-year-old actress revealed the happy news during an interview  on Zoe Ball’s Radio 2 Breakfast show over a month after giving birth. Arterton said: "We are very very happy, he was born just before Christmas. A little Christmas elf."

In 2018, Gemma told the Telegraph: “I’m a neurotic person and a worrier anyway, and I think, ‘Oh God, when I have kids am I still going to be able to do all this?’ When we were kids my mum and my grandmother didn’t work, and I think that made them sad. That has influenced me.”

The St Trinians star appeared on Zoe’s show to discuss her new Sky series Funny Woman, which she described as her second “baby”. Speaking about the sitcom set in the 60’s she said: “It’s been such a passion project of mine for, well, five or six years. When it does finally come out, it sort of feels like, it is your baby, you’ve nurtured it for so long.”

Arterton has famously been very quiet about her private life. She married her husband Roy Keenan in a secret ceremony in County Wicklow in September 2019.

So, who is her husband Rory Keenan? Here’s everything we know about the star’s secret husband.

Who is Rory Keenan?

Rory Keenan is an Irish actor who has worked extensively within the theatre and film industry from a young age.

Some of his works include performing in the National Theatre’s acclaimed production of Trouble In Mind as well as at BAM, New York and Wyndhams Theatre in the West End as Jamie in Long Day’s Journey Into Night directed by Sir Richard Eyre, and at The Donmar Warehouse in Saint Joan and Welcome Home Captain Fox!

Fans will also recognise him from television in which he has been seen in Channel 4’s Somewhere Boy, Netflix’s The Duchess, BBC’s Versailles, War & Peace and Peaky Blinders.

He has appeared on the big screen in multiple projects including Pride and Joy, Ella Enchanted, and Reign of Fire.