Clare & Greg Wise were born and raised in the north of England.
She read books, he fell out of trees.
She excelled at school, he hid when the end-of-term Report came.
She got a Double First in History at university. He did two Degrees - one where you spend your time drawing, the other where you pretend to be someone else.
Oddly, as adults, they both found themselves in the film business: she at the UK Film Council and then Vice President of Universal Pictures, he pretending to be someone else.
They lived in the same street until her death in 2016.

Greg Wise is an actor, producer and author. He has appeared in many British television works, as well as several feature films, such as The Crown and Sense and Sensibility. With his sister, Clare, he co-authored the critically acclaimed memoir Not That Kind of Love. He is married to Emma Thompson and they have two children.


Dame Emma Thompson is one of the UK's most acclaimed actresses, screenwriters and activists. She has won two Academy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, three BAFTA Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. She is the president of the Helen Bamber Foundation, a patron of the Refugee Council and the Elton John AIDS Foundation and an ambassador for ActionAid, and splits her time between London and Scotland with her husband, Greg Wise.