When British actress Lysette Anthony and her American husband, director David Price, first met, he “knocked her for six”. Three years on from the couple's glittering wedding, the pixie-faced blonde has been telling friends she will be spending more time in Britain because her marriage has broken down.
The pair were married in 1997 after falling in love on the set of Dr Jekyll And Ms Hyde. “David and I fell in lust. We were like two heat-seeking missiles,” said Lysette, who was once dubbed “the face of the Eighties” and had moved to Hollywood in 1991 in search of international stardom. At the time she was still married to Dutch painter Luc Leestemaker.
When she and David met, the American director was already the father of two young boys, Will and Dillon, and in 1999 Lysette spoke of her own desire to have children. “Recently I have become very conscious of my body clock ticking away. I want a child with David and don’t want to leave it too late.” But it was not to be.
Since then, Lysette – who when once asked what advice she would give to any young British talent thinking of making the leap across the pond replied: “Don’t!” – has been dividing her time between Hollywood and a terrace house in London’s Greenwich.
Although she appeared in the Woody Allen film Husbands And Wives, she failed to find the level or success she hoped for Stateside. “You have to be prepared to suffer an awful lot of rejection there and still pick yourself up off the ground. The thing is you mustn’t do is lose faith in yourself,” she once said.
With things also looking less than glowing on the romance front, the actress, who is about to star in ITV’s new daytime soap Night And Day and appeared in a recent episode of mystery series Jonathan Creek, has decided to once more focus her attention upon the UK.
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