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Patrick Stewartand Sunny Ozell have been together for over a decade.
TheStar Trekactor and the musician met in 2008 at a restaurant in New York City, where Ozell was working as a waitress at the time. After several years of dating, the couplegot marriedon Sept. 7, 2013. Ozell is Stewart’s third wife; the actor was previously married to Sheila Falconer from 1966 to 1990, with whom he shares two children, and Wendy Neuss from 2000 to 2003.
Over the years, Stewart has been known to sing his wife’s praises, often complimenting Ozell’s talent and achievements.
“I’venever met anyone like herbefore,” Stewart told PEOPLE in 2022. “She is so smart and so informed. And her intellectual accomplishments are extraordinary. She remembers everything.”
So, who is Patrick Stewart’s wife? Here’s everything to know about Sunny Ozell.
She’s a singer and songwriter
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Ozell is a successful singer and songwriter. She has released two studio albums — her debut album,Take It with Me, was released in 2015, while her second album, titledOvernight Lows, came out in 2020.
She met Stewart in 2008 while working as a waitress
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“[When we first met] she was working as a waitress in a restaurant in Brooklyn,” he recalled to PEOPLE in 2022. “This lovely woman came over and said, ‘Gentleman, on the house, what would you like for desserts?’ We got talking and she told me how much she’d wanted to seeMacbeth, but it had been sold out. The Brooklyn run, which was only three or four weeks, sold out before we opened.”
Stewart went on to explain that he had given Ozell his phone number — the only time in his life that he had given someone his number — so he could arrange tickets to the show for her.
“[I] said ‘Call me, I can get a ticket.’ And that’s what we did. And she came backstage afterward and we had dinner and here we are,” he said.
She and Stewart got married in 2013
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The couple wed on Sept. 7, 2013, in Ozell’s native Nevada. Stewart’s long-time friend and fellow actorIan McKellenofficiated the ceremony, however, the pair did face a wedding mishap after they learned that McKellen’s ordination credentials weren’t accepted in Nevada. In a 2020 interview onJimmy Kimmel Live!, Stewart admitted that following the Nevada ceremony, they held alast-minute weddingat a Los Angeles Mexican restaurant, which McKellen also officiated.
She enjoys exploring medieval churches
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Outside of making music, one of Ozell’s hobbies is exploring medieval churches. In 2020, she launched a YouTube series calledThe Church Sessions, where she would give viewers an inside look at some of the fascinating churches in the United Kingdom.
She and Stewart are dog lovers
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Ozell and Stewart are both avid dog lovers. TheX-Menactor worked closely with the ASPCA and L.A.’s Wags and Walks afteradopting a pit bull named Gingerin 2017. Both Stewart and Ozell documented their pet adoption journey on social media.
“[Ginger] has brought such a quality of patience and tolerance and fun into our lives, that it has, in a very short space of time, shifted my sense of where our world might be going,” he told PEOPLE at the time. “I literally find myself more optimistic than I was, and there is only Ginger to account for this.”
To celebrate National Dog Day in August 2022 and show their ongoing support for animal adoption, Ozell posted a sweet snap of herself and her husbandsnuggled up withone of Wags and Walks’s rescue dogs.
She informed Stewart about his Golden Globe nomination
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“I’m on vacation in Jamaica, and I was up early this morning readingThe Guardiannewspaper on my iPad, and I’m thinking that the announcements are not going to be made for another two hours when suddenly I heard this howl from the bedroom where my wife, I thought, was sleeping,” Stewart told PEOPLE at the time. “And I rushed in because she’s terrified of spiders so I thought a tarantula climbed into bed with her or something – no, she was already online looking at the announcements and the nominations.”
She says she will “never get used” to living in the spotlight
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Despite Stewart’s plethora of acting awards and her own achievements as a musician, Ozell said that she will “never get used” to living in the spotlight — and doesn’t ever want to.
“When something very splashy comes around, like the Emmys or the BAFTAs, I’m still bowled over that a gal from Reno, Nevada is on the arm of a gent like Patrick Stewart,” Ozell toldFemale Firstduring a 2015 interview. “And frankly, I hope it’s always that way for me.”
She had a cameo inStar Trek: Picard
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In addition to sharing a life together, the couple have also shared the screen together. Ozell made an appearance in a season 2 episode ofStar Trek: Picard. In the episode, which aired on Apr. 14, 2022, Ozell briefly appeared on stage with her real-life band during one of the show’s most dramatic scenes. She can be seen performing the song “Take You Down,” which is featured on her 2020 albumOvernight Lows.
She and Stewart have walked many red carpets
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Over the years, Ozell and Stewart have attended dozens of high-profile events and posed on numerous red carpets.
In March 2024, the couple joined a slew of celebrities atVanity Fair’s Oscars afterparty in Los Angeles. Stewart looked handsome in a black tux, while Ozell wowed in a vintage Zandra Rhodes dress.
source: people.com
