Hugh Laurie is a British actor who has played more than sixty roles in film and television, not counting the hundreds of characters he has brilliantly embodied in the unforgettable Fry & Laurie Show. However, for many, he will forever remain the magnificent Gregory House - a genius doctor with a disgusting character and incredible charisma. The image embodied by him is so attractive that millions of women around the world ask themselves the question - who is lucky to marry Hugh Laurie?
Meet Joe Green
Not much is known about Hugh's wife Laurie. She carefully hides the details of her life from the paparazzi and, since for so many years, journalists, with all their desire, have not been able to unearth anything worthwhile, this woman really does not have any skeletons in the closet. It is known that Jane "Joe" Green was born in 1956 in England. No one, except those close to her, knows the exact date of her birth, or where she spent her youth, or what kind of education she received. It is only known that she met Hugh Laurie in 1988, as well as the fact that the woman has been working as a theater administrator for many years.
Life before House
The lovers met for about a year before they decided to get married. Evil tongues shamelessly point out that from the time of the wedding - held June 16, 1989 in the London borough of Camden until the birth of their first child Charles - November 1988 - a little less time has passed than it would be decent. Facts are facts, but everyone chooses whether to stoop to idle gossip and petty calculations.
For a long time, the personal life of the Lori couple did not bother anyone except their relatives and friends. The couple had two more children - in 1991, their second son, William, and in 1993, their daughter Rebecca. Hugh Laurie's career is gaining momentum - he starred in the TV series The Black Viper, together with his best friend leads The Fry and Laurie Show, shines with him in the Jeeves and Wooster series, voices cartoons, acts in films, even publishes a book The "gun dealer" is fast becoming a bestseller.
Hugh and Joe Green are buying in Balesize Park - one of the districts of London where such celebrities as Sean Bean, Helen Bonham Carter, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow own real estate.
Joe Greene's first trouble comes in 1997. On the set of the children's TV series "Place of the Lions," Laurie meets television director Audrey Cook. Filming took place in South Africa, and lonely, homesick Laurie finds solace in a whirlwind romance with Audrey.
The film crew is a very closed world where it is difficult to hide anything. It was rumored that Audrey did not want to hide anything. One way or another, the secret became clear, rumors leaked to the press and reached Joe Green. Laurie left the set and rushed to his wife, begging for forgiveness. The wife forgave Hugh, and sent a letter to his ex-girlfriend asking him to leave her husband alone. From the outside, it seemed that everything was returning to normal. Nevertheless, it was this episode, the feeling of shame and humiliation that Laurie experienced in front of his colleagues, acquaintances, and friends that became the trigger for clinical depression, which the actor managed to cope with only after long-term therapy.
Dr. House is the sex symbol who separated the family
The role of Dr. House in Hugh Laurie's career became not even a step up, but a shining ladder to the acting Olympus. The popular British actor has gained worldwide fame, fame, millions of fans and fantastic fees that have made him a millionaire. But it was this success that almost cost him his family.
For eight years, Hugh and Joe Green's marriage was a guest marriage. The actor lived in America, in Los Angeles, where the set of the series was, his wife and children remained in England. They met mainly during the three-month "vacation" provided to the actors between seasons.
The decision to live on opposite sides of the ocean was dictated by caring for children. At the beginning of filming, they were all teenagers - some were on the verge of this difficult age, and some were already at the end of it. Children went to schools, boys played in a band, Rebecca studied ballet. It seemed unreasonable to tear them away from their family, from their usual life, especially since initially it was not about an eight season show.
However, the success of the series exceeded all expectations. Renewals followed one after the other. Hugh Laurie suffered more and more from loneliness, and the press more and more often said that divorce was just around the corner. If in the early years Laurie said in an interview - "our marriage is strong, separation affects weak marriages", then two years later one could already hear from him - "I know divorced families who spend more time together."
The attention of the press did not help to save the marriage. The paparazzi not only pursued Lori, but also sold his pictures with his wife to newspapers. Joe Green has become the object of close attention of fans of "Dr. House". Many gossips enthusiastically washed the bones of a fifty-year-old woman, whose appearance caused them a lot of nagging. They forgot that Joe Greene lives in a British culture where the Hollywood standard is treated with truly imperial disdain.
Four years after the show's launch, Laurie bought a luxury mansion in the Hollywood Hills. It cost him £ 2 million. Constructed in an English style, with a garden, a swimming pool, a huge surrounding area, it seemed like the perfect home for a family. Hugh has been spotted in private schools near the mansion. The purpose of his visits was clearly a suitable place where his children could continue their education. Insiders reported that the eldest son, Charles, decided to study at New York's Columbia University, a prestigious Ivy League institution.
However, the Laurie family did not live in the mansion for long and returned to England again, and continued to visit Hugh only from time to time. The press did not find out what happened, but even before the move, Laurie said that if one of the family members is unhappy in Los Angeles, then they can all return to London, which they consider their home.
Rumors of a divorce were repeatedly exaggerated in the press, but no confirmation was found for them. The paparazzi could not see other women next to Laurie, even in some incriminating situations.
After the show closed, Hugh Laurie returned home to his wife and children. And although he was again and again invited to appear in American projects and he spends a lot of time in America, the whispers about the upcoming divorce were no longer renewed.
The other side of marriage
The press is often led by the public. It is no secret that rumors about the divorce of the coveted "doctor" excited the minds of many fans, just as some of them were pleased to study the photo of the "future ex", amazed - "what could he find in her?"
The talented, sexy, sparkling Hugh Laurie most often feels deeply unhappy. As his longtime girlfriend, actress Emma Thompson, says about him, "a very large part of Laurie is existential despair."
Analyzing Laurie's inner world is the job of his therapist. Nevertheless, in many interviews, the actor himself says that the roots of his psychological problems go back to childhood. The boy's relationship with his mother did not develop in the best way. His mother put too high expectations on his shoulders, there was little warmth in her, but a lot of exactingness. "She expected a lot from me because she didn't want me to be satisfied with anything in between." Since childhood, he felt that he was "not good enough" and this feeling haunts the star actor all his life. Laurie learned that he was a “golden boy”, “the apple of my mother’s eye” from her sisters when he was already grown up.
Working on the set, Laurie constantly worries that the image he has drawn does not coincide with his acting. His bar is too high. Looking through the materials, he hates the expression on his face, voice, it seems to him that everything is going wrong.
Lori is a pessimist. If everything is going well, he is sure that it is only because things will soon be bad. In his opinion, "House Doctor" could not advance beyond the pilot episode. When the entire film crew had already acquired houses or apartments near the set, Hugh continued to live in an inexpensive hotel. He told himself - "As soon as I buy a house, then everything will end."
Cuddled with fame, the idol of many, an extremely delicate and vulnerable person, insecure, afraid of success, afraid of being happy. For many years he goes to therapy, but even she does not save him from periods of depression, sometimes accompanied by thoughts of suicide.
Being around such a person is not always easy. You need to love very strongly and tenderly in order to accept, understand and support. This is how Hugh Laurie is loved by his wife, Joe Greene. It is no coincidence that he says that he is with him during these periods and only she can "fish" him out of them.
