Jessica Brown Findlay is back on our TV screens in the latest season of Apple TV's hit dystopian drama, Silo. The 38-year-old actress has joined the cast as Charlotte Keene, who is sent on a mission after a bomb is detonated in Iran.
Since landing her breakout role as Lady Sybil Crawley in ITV's hit period drama Downton Abbey, Jessica has been a constant fixture on our screens, starring in films and TV shows such as England Is Mine, Playing Nice and The Flatshare.
She's also set to appear in the upcoming Peaky Blinders sequel, alongside Jamie Bell and Charlie Heaton.
But how much do you know about her life off-camera? Find out all about her low-key home life with her actor husband and adorable sons below…
Jessica's famous husband
Jessica is married to fellow actor Ziggy Heath.
Ziggy, 35, is perhaps best known for playing Peggy Bettinson in the historical drama, A Thousand Blows, as well as for his roles in The Miniaturist, Cold Feet and the 2023 film One Life.
© Laurent Vu/SIPA/ShutterstockJessica and Ziggy first met on the set of the period drama Harlots in 2017 and tied the knot during the coronavirus pandemic in September 2020.
"It was wonderful — low-key and micro," Jessica told The Times of her big day. "After a lockdown, 30 people felt huge. I wouldn't change anything about it."
© Getty ImagesJessica, who hails from Cookham in Berkshire, likes to keep her home life in London out of the spotlight. "The hope for great work is absolutely there, but I want to be able to live the way I've always done," she told Harper's Bazaar. "That means being able to go to all the same restaurants, the same market here in east London."
In 2022, Jessica shared with The Independent that she avoids roles that might compromise her privacy, prioritising the ability to lead a normal life. "I'd never want to do something that means I couldn't have a normal life," she said. "I think the idea of extreme fame, I just know it wouldn’t work for me. I wouldn't survive that kind of thing; I can't handle that."
Jessica's adorable children
Jessica and Ziggy share two twin sons, whom they welcomed through IVF in November 2022.
The Brave New World star opened up about her fertility struggles in March 2022 via a social media post marking International Women's Day, revealing she had undergone four rounds of fertility treatment.
© Instagram"IVF has made me even more aware of just how much women are capable of and what we can achieve whilst going through pain and heartbreak," she explained. "Your body is not the enemy. Love it. No matter what. Sending love and support to every woman I have ever met and all the ones I haven't but know what this is."
The couple spent three years trying to conceive. "It was a lot to go through as a couple, but it was a loving and generous time," Jessica told You magazine. "We couldn't control everything about the process, but we did have it in our power to keep talking to each other and have empathy for each other."
Ahead of her starring role in the 2025 ITV drama Playing Nice, which follows two couples who discover their toddlers were switched at birth, Jessica revealed that if she were put in the same situation, she would "fight tooth and nail" for her sons, now two, who are her "carbon copy."
© Shutterstock"When I read the script, our sons were six months old and still little babbly babies," Jessica told HELLO!. "I told my husband that if someone pointed at one of our children and said that they weren't actually ours, I'd be like: 'I don't care.' I would fight tooth and nail."
Discussing her preparation for the role, Jessica continued: "I looked into [baby] swapping and fell down a bit of a rabbit hole of wrong embryos being used or transferred into people during IVF, which really freaked me out.
"Our boys were born via IVF, but they’re 100% related to us. They're like carbon copies of us."
