Meet CIA star Tom Ellis’ wife famous for Tell Me Lies — and his four daughters

It’s a big year for Tom Ellis and his family already.

On Monday, February 23, the Lucifer alum is celebrating the highly-anticipated premiere of CIA, the FBI spin-off that has been marred with production delays and shake-ups, including show runner and cast exits.

The premiere comes just one week after he celebrated the end of another show, Tell Me Lies, which his wife Meaghan Oppenheimer was creator, showrunner, executive producer, and lead writer of, based on the novel by Carola Lovering.

Learn all about the Ellis-Oppenheimer family below.

Meaghan and Tom’s love story

Though it’s unclear how Meaghan and Tom met, they did so around 2014, shortly after Tom’s divorce from his first wife Tamzin Outhwaite. By 2015, they were dating, and they got engaged in 2017.

To announce their engagement, Meaghan shared a photo with her left hand wrapped around Tom’s mouth, covering it, and joked in her caption: “does this ring make me look fat??”

The couple tied the knot two years later, in June 2019, with some of Tom’s Lucifer co-stars as witnesses, including Lauren German, Aimee García, Lesley-Ann Brandt, Rachael Harris, Kevin Alejandro, and D.B. Woodside, among others.

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Meaghan and Tom’s kids

Tom is a dad to four kids, his youngest shared with Meaghan. He shares Nora, born in 2005, with a former partner, and later welcomed Florence, born in 2008, and Marnie, born in 2012, with Tamzin, who he was married to from 2006 to 2014.

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In 2023, Meaghann and Tom welcomed their first child together via surrogacy, daughter Dolly. Dolly was born the same day the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike came to a close, and announcing her birth, Meaghann wrote: “Our daughter Dolly Ellis-Oppenheimer was born on November 8th and within five hours of being alive, she single-handedly ended the SAG strike. We love her. Huge thank you to our amazing surrogate.”

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Tom’s first marriage

Tom and his first wife Tamzin, an English actress best known for her role Mel Owen in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, were introduced by James McAvoy, and married from 2006 until their separation in 2013.

Tamzin cited adultery in her divorce filing, after Tom allegedly admitted to having an affair with Australian actress Emilie de Ravin.