Following the divorce from his second wife Caroline Burt, Brian Cox met his next romantic interest in Hamburg, Germany. The actor was in town to play the titular character in Shakespeare’s tragedy “King Lear” when he first met Nicole Ansari. “I met Brian at a party and there was just an instant connection – It was like meeting a soulmate. He understood me. We were just talking, talking, talking,” she told The Herald Scotland. To show her support, Ansari even went eight different times to see Cox’s theatrical performance. Nearly a decade later in 1999, she moved to London to live with Cox.
In 2002, the couple decided to get married in Las Vegas at the famous White Chapel. Ansari’s mom was in attendance and even played the piano during the ceremony. “She knew I was Scottish, so she played the theme from ‘Braveheart,'” Cox said on “Live with Kelly and Ryan.”
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While Cox and Ansari have been happily married since the start of the new millennium, some people comment on the age gap as she is 23 years younger than the actor. To that, Cox is undeterred. “What do they want me to say? Love is love, and Nicole is the love of my life,” he wrote in his memoir “Putting the Rabbit in the Hat.” Cox added about his wife, “Nicole was in her thirties when we met, and she’d already had a pretty amazing life. She’d been all over the world.”
