Rowan Atkinson, the Blackadder and Mr Bean actor, is to become a father again at the age of 62, it has been reported.
The star, who has two grown up children from his first marriage, is expecting his first child with actress Louise Ford, who is 29-years his junior.
The couple have been together for three years and are said to be delighted and excited about the news.
Miss Ford, 33, who is the daughter of a gas-fitter, grew up in south-east London where she attended a local grammar school.
After studying English at Southampton University she gained a place at RADA, studying alongside Tom Hiddlestone and Gemma Arterton.
She got her big break in the Channel 4 comedy, Crashing, about a group of 20 somethings living in a disused hospital to avoid expensive rents, but is best known for playing Kate Middleton in television hit, The Windsors.
She first met Atkinson when they appeared in a play together in 2013, called The Quartermaine’s Terms at the Wyndham’s Theatre in London.
Atkinson, who is worth an estimated £70 million, has become one for the country’s most successful and best loved comedy actors with a string of hits to his name.
After studying at Oxford University in the 1970s he appeared in Not The Nine O’Clock News before going on to star in Blackadder, Mr Bean and Johnny English.
He was married to former BBC make-up artist, Sunetra Sastry, 55, for 25-years, and the couple have a 23-year-old son, Ben and a 21-year-old daughter, Lily.
The couple split in 2013 and Miss Sastry later filed for divorce citing irreconcilable differences.
Atkinson and Miss Ford moved into his £4.6 million North London cottage in 2014 and went public with their relationship.
She was recently spotted on a shopping trip in London looking heavily pregnant and a source said the baby is due before the end of the year.
A spokesman for Mr Atkinson declined to comment.
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