The veteran actor- Charles Dance is expecting a baby with his 39-year-old fiancée at the age of 65, the couple has unveiled.
The ex-superstar of the 1984 series The Jewel In The Crown will grow to be a father for the third time.
He has a 36-year-old son, Oliver, and a 27-year-old daughter, Rebecca, from his first marriage to sculptress Joanna Haythorn.
Dance's fiancée, Eleanor Boorman, a painting artist, sculptress and former model, verified the news on Tuesday.
She told the Daily Mail: "We're expecting a baby. Fingers crossed the whole thing will be excellent. We're both delighted."
A friend of the couple also told the newspaper: "Charles is very happy and overjoyed at the news."
The couple’s engagement was unveiled last September after they first become a pair in 2008. They live mutually in north London.
Dance, whose first wedding finished eight years before, was said to be "delighted and happy at the reports".
After his marriage broken, he had a relationship with Thunderbirds actress Sophia Myles before he was associated to the 36-year-old past Gucci model Shambhala Marthe.
Marthe explained Dance as "huge company" and said: "Older men recognize how to encourage a woman."
Dance won a host of female respects when he come out as the suave Guy Perron in the award-winning 1984 TV series The Jewel In The Crown, the succession that assisted to make him an worldwide celebrity.
He had used up five years with the Royal Shakespeare Company before he protected the role.
He also acknowledged serious praise for his portrayal of Josslyn Hay contrary Greta Scacchi in the 1988 movie White Mischief.
Since then, he has been a victorious British export to Hollywood, coming out in movies such as the science fiction horror movie Alien 3 and opposite Arnold Schwarzegger as the villain in Last Action Hero.
His TV job included the BBC's much-appreciated version of Charles Dickens's Bleak House.
In 2004, he directed Dame Judi Dench and Dame Maggie Smith in the much-admired film Ladies In Lavender and has starred in the immensely trendy U.S. television series Game Of Thrones, playing Tywin Lannister.
He shifted to London following his divorce and the sale of his £2 million marital home in Somerset.
The 6ft 3in star still takes pleasure in an outside daily swim near his home in the capital.
Miss Boorman, whose grandfather was the wildlife artist Harry Pettit, was brought up in rural Kent and attended Princess Anne's old school, Benenden.
She read anthropology, psychology and economics at Durham and has been commissioned to full likenesses of the Royal Family, with the Prince of Wales being amid her several fans.
