Tom Vaughan-Lawlor: 'I could never work with my wife - the idea of being mean or cruel to her, I couldn't do it'

"Tom Vaughan-Lawlor married Claire Cox in September 2010 in London. At the wedding, his younger sister Sadbh said in her speech: "His only friends growing up were books." It is not still the case. "My wife brought me out of myself," he says. "Claire is very, very kind. She just coaxes me out. My inclination is to be at home reading. She is charismatic and she lures me out to, well, socialise. I join her in that, sometimes.""

"The stage and screen actor admits that he finds it quite difficult to go to screenings and other public parts of 'the job'. "It is that duality of standing on stage or standing in front of the camera and then at the same time when you are in your own privacy you are with yourself and that is a different reality.""

He will appear as Father Vincent in RTÉ's comedy-drama These Sacred Vows. He married Claire Cox in September 2010 in London. His younger sister Sadbh said at the wedding that his only friends growing up were books. His wife brought him out of himself and she coaxed him into socialising. His inclination is to stay at home reading, and Claire's charisma lures him out sometimes. He finds screenings and other public parts of the job quite difficult. He experiences a duality between performing publicly on stage or camera and being alone in private, which feels like a different reality.

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