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The family of Spider-Man actor Alfred Molina, 68, has described his marriage to Oscar-winning Frozen director Jennifer Lee as the “fairytale ending to a movie”.
The couple married a little over a year last week after Alfred’s first wife, English actress Jill Gascoine, died of Alzheimer’s disease in April 2020 at the age of 83.
His new bride Jennifer, 49, posted a photo gallery of their sunlit gardening ceremony on Instagram on Monday with the cute caption: “We did it. We do.’
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Alfred was overwhelmed by emotions with a snapshot and held his hands in front of his face when he saw his bride walking down the aisle.
His sister-in-law Lyn Molina told MailOnline: “Alfred has been through a lot in the last few years and this is like a fairy tale that ends for one of his films.
“It is absolutely beautiful and we are happy for her. They are a wonderful couple who are really in love. ‘
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Lynn, who lives in Surrey and is married to Alfred’s brother Roberto, announced that he and Jennifer had been together for about five years.
During this time, Alfred remained lawfully married to wife Jill, but announced in 2016 that the actress was in “terminal stages” of debilitating disease.
In November 2019, he went public with his romance with Jennifer.
Lynn added, “We met Jennifer about three years ago when she came to London with Alfred. She is lovely and very down to earth, without any airs. ‘
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She added that she and her husband were invited to the US wedding but decided not to travel due to COVID.
Lynn revealed, “Of course we were invited, but unfortunately we decided not to leave at this point due to all the travel restrictions. We would have loved to have been there to enjoy their beautiful day with you.
“We look forward to seeing you soon, but we don’t know when that will be.”
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Jennifer, the chief creative officer of Walt Disney Animation Studios, looked sensational in a tulle dress with an A-line skirt and sequins throughout.
Her groom wore a gray suit, a light pink shirt and sunglasses with a white rose on the lapel of his elegant ensemble.
Actor Jonathan Groff (36), who voiced Kristoff in the Frozen films, was also present at the ceremony.
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In a subsequent post by Jennifer, she shared more details with Alfred about how Jonathan was involved in their wedding.
She labeled a photo of herself and Jonathan talking at the reception and wrote: “This beautiful, generous soul is the reason why Fred and I met. We owe him the world. ‘
Jennifer and Jonathan worked together on Frozen, and he also worked with Alfred on a production of John Logan’s play Red in 2012.
Both Alfred and Jonathan starred in the animated Frozen II in 2019 – with Alfred as the voice of Agnarr, Elsa and Anna’s father, and Jonathan repeated his role as Kristoff.
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Alfred was first married to Z-Cars star Jill, whom he met while they were both working in the same theater production.
They were married in Tower Hamlets, London in 1986 when she was 49 and he was 33 years old. He had a daughter, Rachel, now 41, from a previous relationship.
Jill was first married to hotelier Bill Keith in Dundee – married in 1965 and divorced in 1972 – during that time they had two sons, Adam and Sean, but they didn’t keep in touch with Bill after the divorce and Jill moved them as Single on mother.
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The actress rose to fame as Detective Inspector Maggie Forbes in The Gentle Touch and appeared on the spin-off series CATS Eyes before making a career in America.
While Jill lived through 2020, four years earlier in 2016, Alfred announced that Jill was already in the “end-stage” of debilitating disease.
He told the Radio Times, “Alzheimer’s is a cowardly disease. It sneaks up on you from behind and when you realize you have it, you probably don’t notice much anymore. It’s a stinker ‘.
In other interviews, he also admitted that he had undergone counseling to manage her illness and joined an Alzheimer’s support group.
Friends had previously revealed how Jill began noticing problems with her memory in 2010. She was diagnosed in 2012 after her memory loss became more significant.
Jennifer was previously married to Robert Joseph Monn, with whom she shares daughter Agatha. Agatha, 18, was the voice of nine-year-old Anna in the first Frozen film from 2013.
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