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Sam Riley On Control, Cornwall And Keeping His Privacy

SAM RILEY IS happy that the public doesn’t know much about his personal life beyond the fact that he lives in Berlin, is married to Romanian-German actress Alexandra Maria Lara and that they have a young son named Ben.

“My wife is a very well-known actor in Germany but they don’t have the same culture of scrutiny,” says the West Yorkshire-born actor, who met Alexandra when she played a journalist in his screen debut Control in 2007. “Fame is not something either of us has courted because it’s a double-edged sword. There are a lot of good actors who are successful but who you don’t know very much about at all.”

Sam smiles, seemingly forgetting the blockbuster success of the two films he has appeared in. “Plus I’ve never really been in

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