Richard E. Grant pays tribute to late wife Joan Washington

Richard E. Grant shared a loving tribute to his late spouse, Joan Washington.

The Loki actor took to Twitter on Friday, September 3, to announce that Washington had passed away. He shared a video of the couple dancing, together with a heartfelt message.

“ONLY YOU,” Grant started the submit. “Joan — Love of my Life & Giver of Life to our daughter Olivia. Our hearts are damaged with the lack of your Life final night time. 35 years married & 38 collectively. To be actually recognized and seen by you, is your immeasurable reward. Don’t forget us, candy Monkee-mine.”

Washington was 71. No explanation for dying was shared on the time.

Washington was a voice and dialect coach labored on latest movies reminiscent of Tenet, The Witches, and The Favorite. Grant appeared to elucidate the nickname he gave her in a 2011 interview with The Unbiased about their preliminary assembly in 1983. 

“She was instructing an accent session with a bunch of actors, and I believed she had essentially the most great voice and big, form of monkey eyes. She appeared pretty frenetic,” he advised the outlet. “I believed that she was actually cute and all that.”

Washington recurrently labored with Jessica Chastain, who posted her own tribute on Twitter.

The actress shared a photograph of herself and Washington together with the caption, “My coronary heart is damaged. Joan Washington had such a profound impression on me, sure as an artist, however largely as a girl. I’ve regarded towards her. Her try in the direction of excellence made her the celebrated dialect coach she was. We labored collectively on The Debt, Poirot, Coriolanus, Miss Julie, Crimson Peak, The Zookeeper’s Spouse, & The 355. Day by day I used to be excited to go to work and giggle with Joan. She was a barometer of fact with a depraved humorousness. I beloved her very a lot.”

Chastain additionally added that her coronary heart goes out to Washington’s “beloved Richard and Oilly,” calling them “her North Star.”