David Raymond William Huggins - WORK IN PROGRESS
Born Aug. 14, 1959

Wife: Madeleine Christie, married 2001
Children (Jeremy's grandchildren!):
Dan born Nov. 1, 2002 and Iris bon June 14, 2005

Successful British cartoonist, illustrator and novelist

David's novels:
The Big Kiss: Amazon U.S. // Amazon U.K.
Luxury Amnesia: Amazon U.S. // Amazon U.K.
Me Me Me: Amazon U.S. // Amazon U.K.

Here are some of David's comments about his parents in an interview in The Guardian, Nov. 14, 2001:

With little in common besides their careers and a sense of humour, my mother and father divorced when I was three, but for the remainder of my childhood, they appeared to get along surprisingly well. ...

Having no desire to stand out from the crowd, I kept quiet about my parents' work when I started school. It helped that my father acted under the name of Jeremy Brett, and my mother under her maiden name, Anna Massey. ... Among classmates, then, my own background seemed happily drab by comparison. My mother was a working single parent, but she mostly acted in the theatre in the evenings so we could spend the days together, and she turned jobs down if they conflicted with school holidays. My father took me out every weekend, and we'd often visit actor friends who had children of my age.

There was a degree of camaraderie among the offspring of actors, and I soon came to appreciate my own parents' relative normality.

When my father presented me with a motorbike for my 18th birthday, my parents happened to be working together on a television adaptation of Rebecca. My mother was so angry with him that they ignored each other for the entire filming. At the time, I took my father's side, but now my sympathies lie more with my mother. It was the first time they'd fallen out openly, and the row pinpointed the fact that they were, by nature, opposites. My mother is cerebral, cautious and organised, while my father was intuitive and impulsive. I suspect that the easy rapport they seemed to share when I was a child might be due to the fact that they were professional actors as well as caring parents. I can still hear them battling out their differences in my head: my father urging me to take risks; my mother advising me to think things through.