Felicity Heywood is the ex-wife of Ridley Scott. Felicity Heywood’s ex-husband is a celebrated British filmmaker. He is best known for directing films in the science fiction, crime, and historical drama genres. His work is known for its atmospheric and highly concentrated visual style. He is the recipient of numerous accolades including the BAFTA Fellowship for lifetime achievement from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 2018, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Golden Globe Award. In 2003, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
Felicity Heywood: Bio Summary
| Full Name | Felicity Heywood |
| famous as | Ridley Scott’s ex-wife |
| Age | N/A |
| Date of Birth | N/A |
| Place of Birth | United Kingdom |
| Zodiac sign | N/A |
| Nationality | British |
| Ethnicity | Caucasian |
| Children | Luke Scott, Jake Scott |
| spouse | Ridley Scott (m. 1964–1975) |
Who was Ridley Scott’s ex-wife?
Felicity Heywood is best known as the first wife of filmmaker Ridley Scott. The couple tied the knot in 1964 when he was 27 years old. Scott and Heywood tied the knot in a beautiful wedding ceremony in the presence of their friends, families, and loved ones. According to Evening Standard, Felicity Heywood was a journalist.
Though they promised each other forever and started their marriage on a good note, things didn’t go as planned. The couple’s marriage grew sour as they ended everything on December 15, 1975. The reason behind their divorce was not made known to the public. During their 11 years of marriage, they had two children- Luke Scott and Jake Scott.
Ridley Scott’s two sons, Jake and Luke from his first marriage to Felicity Heywood, have always been an integral part of their half-sister Jordan Scott’s life, ‘and I get incredibly upset when people refer to them as my half-brothers because they’ve always been brothers to me. My mum helped raise them from a very early age, before she had me, and when I came along, because they were that much older, there was no jealousy.- Jordan told Evening Standard.
Felicity Heywood’s children followed in the footsteps of their father
Felicity Heywood’s children- Luke Scott and Jake Scott followed closely in the footsteps of their famous father. Scott is a film, commercial, and television director. He was the second unit director on Exodus: Gods and Kings and The Martian, both directed by his father. Scott started out with his feature film directorial debut in 2016 with Morgan.
Jake is also a film director who works primarily in the field of music videos and commercials. Most of his works were produced under the Ridley Scott Associates banner or RSA’s music video subdivision Black Dog Films. He has made videos for Soundgarden, The Smashing Pumpkins, Bush, Live, Blind Melon, Tori Amos, Tricky, Radiohead, Lily Allen, No Doubt, Oasis, The Supernaturals, The Strokes, The Verve, R.E.M., U2, and George Michael.
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Where is Ridley Scott’s ex-wife now?
After their marriage ended in 1975, Felicity Heywood went totally out of the picture. She has not made the news or any headlines in recent years. It is unclear if she ever got married again. Ridley Scott on the other hand walked down the aisle with advertising executive Sandy Watson in 1979, with whom he had a daughter, Jordan Scott, also a director, and divorced in 1989.
The filmmaker’s current partner is actress Giannina Facio, whom he has cast in all his films since White Squall except American Gangster and The Martian, and whom he married in 2015. He divides his time between homes in London, France, and Los Angeles.
In 2013, Ridley stated that he is an atheist. However, when asked by the BBC in a September 2014 interview if he believes in God, Scott replied:
I’m not sure. I think there’s all kinds of questions raised… that’s such an exotic question. If we looked at the whole thing practically speaking, the Big Bang occurred and then we go through this evolution of millions, billions of years where, by coincidence, all the right biological accidents came out the right way. To an extent, that doesn’t make sense unless there was a controlling decider or mediator in all of that. So who was that? Or what was that? Are we one big grand experiment in the basic overall blink of the universe, or the galaxy? In which case, who is behind it?
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