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Veteran stage actress Lesley Manville, who plays Woodcock’s wife in Phantom Thread, has accomplished a rare feat with her Oscar nomination for best supporting actress this year. She and ex-husband Gary Oldman, whose prosthetic-rich performance as Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour has made him the best actor front-runner, are only the sixth pair of parents in Oscar history to receive simultaneous award nominations.
Manville and Oldman married in 1987 and divorced in 1990. In those three years, they had one son. Addressing her simultaneous Oscar nominations, Manville told THR, “It’s completely nice and friendly. We were all together on Christmas year before last. We spoke on the phone the other day — he rang me when he saw Phantom Thread, I rang him when I saw Darkest Hour. Just because you’re divorced from somebody, doesn’t mean you hate them.”