Jennifer Lynton: What happened to Anthony Hopkins' ex-wife?

Publish date: 2024-05-17

Jennifer Lynton is the second ex-wife of Sir Anthony Hopkins. Jennifer Lynton’s ex-husband is one of Britain’s most recognizable and prolific actors of all time. The actor received two Academy Awards for Best Actor for The Silence of the Lambs (1991) and The Father (2020), becoming the oldest Best Actor Oscar winner to date. He is the recipient of two Academy Awards, four BAFTA Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and an Olivier Award. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to drama in 1993.

Jennifer Lynton: Bio Summary

Full Name	Jennifer Lynton
famous as	*ex-wife of Anthony Hopkins
Age	76 years old as of 2023
Date of Birth	October 26, 1947
Place of Birth	United Kingdom
Zodiac sign	Libra
Nationality	English
Ethnicity	Scorpio
Children	N/A
spouse	Anthony Hopkins (m. 1972- 2002)

Who is Anthony Hopkins’ second wife?

Jennifer Lynton was born on October 26, 1947, in Rustington, Sussex, England per Briefly. As of 2023, she is 76 years old. She attended a boarding school in Kent. After developing a crush on screenwriter and actor Dirk Bogarde as a teen, Lynton dedicated herself to working in the entertainment industry. The ambitious young lady slowly but surely worked her way up the ladder. Through this process, she would meet her future husband in the most peculiar way. This led to a relationship that lasted for almost three decades.

Jennifer Lynton also worked in the Entertainment industry

According to Amomama, she had a job in publicity at the entertainment company Rank Organisation where she was seen as modest and diligent. A woman she worked with revealed: “She was sugar-coating over flint – very mousey and average when you met her, a real goer underneath.” Lynton stayed with the company for almost half a decade, working as a typist for a short time. Following this, she became an intern at the “Look at Life” movie documentary series.

How did Anthony Hopkins and his second wife meet?

Lynton managed to maneuver her way up and get a job as a production assistant at Pinewood Studios – a career move that changed her life forever when the iconic actor Anthony Hopkins laid eyes on her. She was working as a production assistant on the film- “Eight Bells Toll”-. Anthony had a role in the film and when she picked him up from the airport one thing led to another and they began a relationship, according to the Daily Mail.

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She had received a call from Tedd Llyod, the production manager of the film who desperately needed her to pick Anthony Hopkins and Leon Collins up from Heathrow airport. The two had missed their flight because of their drinking while the production unit was already on its way.

At that time Anthony was officially still married to his first wife actress Petronella Barker with whom he had a daughter, Abigail Hopkins, the two were estranged, which opened the door for his and Jennifer’s love to blossom. Anthony and his ex-wife Barker officially divorced in 1972, after which he married Lynton in 1973.

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With a history of alcohol abuse, The Thor actor himself stated that he found some stability with his then-wife Lynton. However, it seems he still carried his substance abuse into the marriage. By 1996 married couple were living in different countries, with the actor stating that their marriage was perfect due to the freedom it afforded him.

Though it all started well for the couple, things couldn’t go as planned. By 2002, they officially called their marriage a quit and went their separate ways. Anthony Hopkins and his second wife Jennifer Lynton were married for almost three decades before they divorced.

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Where is Jennifer Lynton now?

After their marriage came to an end, Jennifer Lynton went totally out of the picture. Lynton has chosen to go under the radar and live a very private life, withdrawing from the curious eyes of journalists and the cameras of Hollywood. It’s unclear if she ever married again. Hopkins on the other hand met and married Colombian-born Stella Arroyave in 2003. Arroyave is an actor, writer, and director, and the two have worked together a handful of times.