Olivia Colman, 52, says she feels nonbinary and describes herself as a ‘gay man’ to her husband

Olivia Colman has said she has always ‘felt sort of nonbinary’ as the actress opened up about her identity in a new interview.

Olivia, 52, who is best known for her roles in The Crown, The Favourite and Heartstopper and has been married to her husband Ed Sinclair for 25 years, said she has ‘never felt massively feminine’ in the honest chat.

She explained: ‘Throughout my whole life, I’ve had arguments with people where I’ve always sort of felt nonbinary.

‘I’ve never felt massive feminine in my being female. I’ve always described myself to my husband as a gay man.

‘And he goes “yeah I get that”. And so I do feel at home and at ease.’ 

She added to Them: ‘I don’t really spend a whole lot of time with people who are very staunchly heterosexual.’

Nonbinary is a term used to describe a person’s gender identity that falls outside the traditional male and female binary.

Olivia and Ed married in 2001, and share three children, after falling in love in the nineties.

She previously told the Daily Mail in 2013: ‘My husband and I were very lucky. We met when we had nothing and we loved each other then. So we were all right.

‘We were 20 and he was also an actor. If you meet at that age then you’re fine. For me it was thunderbolts straight away.’

In recent years, Olivia revealed she gets ‘terribly homesick’ when forced to spend time away from Ed and their kids due to work commitments.

Speaking on Ruthie’s Table podcast, she said: ‘Ed and I have been together for 30 years and up until Covid the longest I had been away was two weeks as I just don’t take jobs away from home.

‘I get terribly homesick. I never used to be able to sleep very well if Ed wasn’t there.

‘I am at an age where sleep is harder anyway so a night away might mean a great night’s sleep but I miss the kids. I wanted to be there.’

Olivia’s comments come as she stars in new queer film Jimpa, playing a mother who takes her nonbinary child to visit their gay father abroad.

The mother-of-three, who won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 2019, stars alongside John Lithgow in the new movie.

Olivia previously confessed that her Oscar had only been on display in her house for a year, before being hidden inside a cupboard.

During an appearance on the Graham Norton Show in December 2022, host Graham asked her: ‘Where’s your Oscar Olivia – where do you keep it?’ 

A sheepish Olivia revealed: ‘It’s in the cupboard’, as Graham questioned: ‘Is there a glass front of the cupboard?’

However, the star replied: ‘No, it feels a bit ostentatious to have it out. So I have it in the cupboard so I can go, “Hello!”‘

She went on: ‘It should be out. It was out for the first year, but I think then after that you should crack on, forget it happened and keep working.’

However, last August Olivia explained she’d had to move the little golden figure to the bookshelf after discovering the cupboard where she kept it was damp.

Speaking on the SmartLess podcast, The Father star confessed that her handyman had been the one to rescue the trophy.

She recalled: ‘I don’t have anything out on show at home… I find it a little bit showy-offy. It was in a cupboard in our sitting room, but we’ve discovered the cupboard’s a bit damp.

‘We live in a very old house – the front of it is 1600 – so it’s pretty but it is a bit damp. And our lovely Darren – who’s a carpenter, handyman, painter – he opened the cupboard and went, “Are you f***ing kidding? You know it’s damp in here?”

‘So he made me take it out and I’ve now got it on a bookshelf, but behind a book, so that I know it’s there and I can say “Hello” to him.’