Sunetra Sastry - Tragedy Of Rowan Atkinson Ex-Wife

Sunetra Sastry is a British make-up artist best known as the ex-wife of famous English comedian, actor, and screenwriter Rowan Atkinson. 

He is the son of Eric Atkinson and Ella May Bainbridge. 

Parents

She has not disclosed the names of her parents. 

However, it is known that her mother was English while her father was an Indian. Because of her mixed ethnicity, she had to experience social racism growing up in England.

Her parents wanted her to become a nurse, but soon after finishing high school, she decided to attend a beauty college in London. 

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Initially, her parents were against it, but later, they supported her when they realized that it was her passion to choose that path.

Married, Husband, Wedding

She was married to actor and comedian Rowan Atkinson, aka Mr. Bean. 

She first met him in 1986 when she worked as a make-up artist for ‘Black Adde,’ the BBC1 pseudo-historical situational comedy.

They dated for three years and got engaged in late 1989. 

The couple tied the wedding knot in February 1990 at the famous Russian Tea Room in New York City. Rowan’s best man was Stephen Fry.

In 1993, they were blessed with their first child, Benjamin. Two years later, in 1995, they were blessed with a daughter whom they named Lily.

Benjamin Alexander Sebastian Atkinson is a trainee officer, while Lily Sastry is an actress known for her roles in movies like Johnny English Reborn, Mr. Bean’s Holiday, and Tooth.

Sunetra and her husband Rowan were living a happy married life until a new woman came between them. 

Their 24 years of marriage started deteriorating when Rowan started dating an actress named Louise Ford in February 2014. 

At that time, Sastry was building a home with Rowan in Oxfordshire worth 11 million euros. 

Rowan then moved into his London cottage, which was worth 4 million euros at the time, and Sastry lived in the mansion in the capital, which was worth 21 million euros. 

Rowan and Louise met in Simon Gray’s play ‘Quartermaine’s Terms’ which premiered in 2013. 

Sastry was deeply upset that her husband, with whom she spent more than 24 years of her life, replaced her with such a younger woman. 

She could not take this anymore and filed a petition for divorce. 

Her petition was granted within 65 seconds as her husband was not present for his hearing. 

The district judge, Stephen Alderson, approved the divorce on the grounds that their marriage had irretrievably broken down and unreasonable behavior as Sastry found Rowan intolerable to live with. 

She didn’t reveal which behavior of his she was complaining, but Rowan didn’t even defend her petition. 

She received a $10 million worth of mansion from her ex-husband as a part of the divorce deal.

Later, Louise moved in with Rowan in January 2016 to his London home. 

She was previously sharing a flat with Yasmine Akram, an actress and comic, in South London. 

Their daughter Lily was angry at her father for his actions and called her father “Dick Head” on social media. 

She also decided not to use her father’s surname and adopted her mother’s maiden name, Sastry.

Their son Benjamin, too, didn’t seem happy and was in no way interested in following in his father’s footsteps. 

Rowan has a child from his second wife, Louise Ford.

Rowan Atkinson affair

Rowan and Louise's affair started in 2014. But before dating Rowan, Louise was dating comedian James Acaster.

James said that he found out about his then-girlfriend dumping him and dating Rowan by reading it in a newspaper. 

James felt that the distance between him and Louise began to grow when she took the role in Quartermaine's Terms at Wyndham's Theatre in 2013 alongside Rowan. 

Louise and James were in a relationship for two years when Louise dumped James for Rowan. James also keeps on joking about him being left for Mr. Bean.

Rowan is 28 years older than Louise, but the age factor did not stop them from falling for each other. They have a daughter named Isla Atkinson, born in December 2017.

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The best man at her wedding said he was attracted to her 

Stephen Fry admitted in his autobiography, "90 percent gay," that Sastry was one of the few women he found himself attracted to. 

He wrote in his autobiography that Sastry was as bright, funny, and captivatingly alluring as any girl he had met for years. 

He was quite seriously considering asking her out on a date when his friend Rowan timidly approached him one morning during rehearsals for the second episode of Blackadder and asked if he would mind swapping makeup artists with him. 

He didn't want to do so, so he asked Rowan if he didn't like the one he got. Rowan denied disliking his makeup artist and said she is splendid. 

Then Rowan gave him a look of uncharacteristic intensity. Stephen could only say oh and stayed silent after that. 

Sastry would often mock him for not asking her out, but looking at how happy she was, he thought he had made the right decision to remain silent. 

Her ex Rowan Atkinson recalls the funny incident of getting told he is the spitting image of Mr. Bean

While appearing on The Graham Norton Show, Atkinson was asked if holidays are misery and if he could go anywhere.

Atkinson said he couldn’t go to many places where he was not recognized. 

He finds the trickiest things to be not getting recognized particularly but being half recognized where people stare a lot. 

Humorously he added, he has the sort of feeling where he wishes the person to not stare at him, but rather he would hold up a flag saying, "Yes, it’s me." 

He recalled a funny incident where he was told that he looked like Mr. Bean. According to him, he was at a Land Rover parts department near Peterborough waiting for the car parts. 

He was standing around with a group of guys, and a guy was staring at him. After a while, he came up to him and said, 

“Excuse me, has anyone ever told you that you are the absolute spitting image of that Mr.Bean”? 

Atkinson replied that he is the actor who plays Mr. Bean. The guy, with a witty smile, said, 

“I bet you wish you were.” 

The guy was not ready to accept it. 

The more Atkinson was trying to claim he was the actual one he thought he merely resembled, the less he believed him and instead said the resemblance to be uncanny. 

Then he asked if he ever thought of doing any look-alike work like stag nights and hen nights and even suggested that he could go along as Mr. Bean so that he could make a good fortune. 

Atkinson added that he had to bring the conversation to a close because the guy was not ready to believe, plus it was clear he was getting annoyed that Atkinson was pursuing the line of “I am Rowan Atkinson" when clearly the guy thought he was total arse who just because he happened to look a bit like Mr. Bean, goes around the country, actually claiming to be Mr. Bean.

Net Worth

Her net worth is under review. However, she must have amassed a decent amount of net worth through her career as a make-up artist. 

She earns an average salary of $37k per year. 

She worked as a make-up artist in the comedy series “Black Adder.” She is a renowned make-up artist in the industry, and many celebrities appreciate her work. 

She has worked on many projects, including BBC and her ex-husband’s creation, Rowan Atkinson Production.

She got a mansion worth $10 million in the settlement for divorce. The mansion is furnished with ultra-present-day contraptions, including underground stopping and best-class design. 

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Info and Highlights (Age, Birthday, Height)

1. As of 2019, her age is 62 years.
2. As per her biography, she was born in 1957 in England.
3. She celebrates her birthday on September 5 every year.
4. She holds British nationality.
5. She belongs to a mixed ethnicity.
6. She stands at a height of 5 feet 5 inches.
7. Her body measurements are 34-27-36 inches.
8. Her weight is 55 kg.
9. In his biography ‘The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography,’ Stephen Fry wrote that he was only 90 % gay because he was attracted to Sunetra Sastry.
10. She works for The BrainCancer Foundation of Great Britain.
11. She loves painting and traveling.
12. She is not active on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.
13. We cover most of the information about Sunetra Sastry as it is difficult to find on other wiki sites.