By LINA DAS
You’d be hard pushed to find a more genuinely charming actor than Ioan Gruffudd. Courteous and with impeccable manners, he’s a flurry of door-opening and ‘after yous’ when we meet.
Of course the lilting Welsh accent and dark, magnetic looks that catapulted him to fame in the ITV series Hornblower don’t do him any harm either.
One interviewer was so taken with him, they swooned that Ioan was ‘perfect’.
His charm is all the more impressive today given Ioan had spent the previous night in hospital. While his wife, actress Alice Evans, was away in Atlanta shooting the TV series The Vampire Diaries, their two-year-old daughter Ella Betsi was suddenly beset with breathing difficulties – the local hospital eventually diagnosing her with the respiratory condition, croup.
‘It’s quite a traumatic thing for Alice to have to leave Ella to go to work,’ he says, ‘so you can imagine how awful the phone call was when I had to tell her what had happened. I was terrified. But Ella’s fine now and she’ll be thrilled because her mum’s coming home tonight.’
Ella is Ioan and Alice’s only child. The couple underwent IVF treatment three years ago in order to conceive. ‘We’d wanted a baby for a while and after it didn’t happen for us naturally we said, “Let’s take what science has to offer.”
Luckily for us, it worked the first time so it wasn’t a long, hard struggle,’ he says.
On discovering Alice was pregnant, there was elation, ‘but that’s just the beginning of the journey,’ admits Ioan. ‘Then there’s the whole other worry of, “Are we going to get to 12 weeks?”. It was a long, anxious process and then Alice was on bed rest for the last eight weeks because of high blood pressure, which is quite serious.
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