# Olivia Colman shares marriage secrets after revealing 'gay man' and non-binary identity

> Olivia Colman reveals 25-year marriage to Ed Sinclair as she describes herself as a 'gay man' and 'feels non-binary'.
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- Published: 2026-10-28T15:09:20+00:00
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## Olivia Colman's marriage secret
Olivia Colman shares the secret to her 25-year marriage to 'lucky' Ed Sinclair.
## Describes herself as 'gay man'
Olivia has always described herself as the 'gay man' in her marriage and 'feels non-binary'.
## Marriage advice
Be kind to each other and try not to let things get to a point where you need to talk about it.
## No conflict people
Olivia and Ed don't argue because they are 'not conflict people'.
## Marriage advice
Find a nice gentle time to say, 'Can we talk about that thing' and often it is, 'What thing?'
## Marriage advice
For some people it works in the heat of the moment, but it doesn't work for me.
## Met in 1990s
Olivia and Ed met in the 1990s while attending university in Cambridge.
## Cambridge Footlights
They fell in love while rehearsing for a Cambridge Footlights production of Alan Ayckbourn's Table Manners.
## Stalked him
Olivia spent six weeks memorising the words to a song he liked and also learnt his timetable.
## Stalked him
She told Bustle she 'sort of stalked him' but it worked in their case.
## Reminds him
Olivia reminds Ed every day that he is a very lucky man.
## Studied at Homerton
Olivia was studying to teach at Homerton College, Cambridge.
## Ed's education
Ed initially studied law at Cambridge University but shifted to arts and attended Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
## Ed's career
Ed wrote the 2021 Sky drama series Landscapers starring Olivia and David Thewlis.
## Ed's career
Ed recently produced The Roses starring Olivia and Benedict Cumberbatch as a husband and wife at war.
## Three children
They have three children: two sons, Hall, 18, and Finn, 20, and a ten-year-old daughter.
## First child
Their firstborn, Finn, was born in 2005 while Hall joined the family in 2007.
## Daughter in 2015
Their daughter came along in 2015 while Olivia was filming The Night Manager.
## Scared of sex scenes
Olivia admitted she's scared of sex scenes because it feels like she's cheating on her husband.
## No sex scenes
Olivia says she doesn't want to do anything where she has to show skin or pretend to have sex.
## Key takeaway

Olivia Colman describes herself as a 'gay man' and 'feels non-binary' in her 25-year marriage to Ed Sinclair.