Tom Hughes: Relationship, Career, and Latest Projects in 2024

If you’ve spent any time with British period drama over the past decade, you’ve probably seen Tom Hughes’ face before — most memorably as Prince Albert opposite Jenna Coleman’s Queen Victoria in ITV’s Victoria (Heart (UK radio broadcaster)). The role turned him from a working actor into a household name, yet his private life has stayed stubbornly out of focus — and what follows is the documented record on his relationships, his height, and the projects keeping him busy in 2024, with sources attached.

Birth year: 1986 (some records say 1985) · Nationality: British · Height: 5 ft 9 in (reported) · Notable role: Prince Albert in Victoria (2016–2019) · Current projects: Legends (Netflix), The Gold (BBC)

Eight biographical entries, one pattern: the career facts are dated and sourced, while the personal details stay in “reported” territory.

What this means: the table separates cleanly. The career lines carry dates and sources; the personal lines carry the word “reported.” That’s the pattern to remember while reading the sections below.

Are Jenna Coleman and Tom Hughes still a couple?

No — at least not according to the public record. Metro reported in July 2020 that the couple had split after roughly four years together (Metro (UK daily newspaper)). Neither Hughes nor Coleman announced the breakup personally, and neither has confirmed a reunion since.

• Reported relationship window: 2016–2020
• Public confirmation from either actor: none

Did Jenna Coleman and Tom Hughes date in real life?

• Met on the set of Dancing on the Edge in 2013
• Romantically linked from around 2016 (HELLO! (celebrity magazine))

Yes — the relationship was reported as real, even though neither star put out a formal announcement. They first worked together on the BBC series Dancing on the Edge in 2013, and Entertainment Daily places their meeting there. They went on to play a married royal couple in Victoria — and, per HELLO!’s dating-history coverage, were also a couple off-screen starting around 2016, with some secondary summaries dating it to 2015.

Does Tom Hughes have a wife?

• No marriage on the public record
• Most documented relationship: Jenna Coleman, 2016–2020

There’s no public record of Hughes marrying. Across the profiles used in this guide, the only long-term relationship documented in press coverage is the one with Coleman — a relationship the coverage itself describes as private and largely unconfirmed by either party.

Who is Jenna Coleman married to now?

• No public marriage in Coleman’s record
• Dating history tracked by celebrity outlets, not by Coleman

Coleman has no marriage on the public record as of 2024. HELLO!’s dating-history timeline covers the reported relationships that made headlines — the Hughes years included — and lists no husband. Since the 2020 split, she has reportedly been linked to someone else, but that report remains unconfirmed.

The pattern: the start of the relationship is the fuzzy part; the ending is the documented part. If you need one firm date in the Hughes–Coleman timeline, it’s July 2020 — the month Metro reported the split.

The implication: Hughes and Coleman’s relationship remains largely off the record, with only a single confirmed split date as a fixed point.

What is Tom Hughes doing now?

Hughes is doing what he has done for most of his career: steady work in high-profile television drama. His two most recent credits are The Gold on BBC (2023) and Legends on Netflix (2024).

• The Gold — BBC drama, 2023
• Legends — Netflix series, 2024

What movies is Tom Hughes in?

• Cemetery Junction (2010) — most-cited film credit
• Recent momentum: television, not film

His film list is shorter than his TV list. The 2010 film Cemetery Junction is the title that appears most consistently across career summaries (ReportDesk (entertainment blog)). Since then, his most visible work has been on the small screen.

What is Tom Hughes’ role in ‘The Gold’?

• The Gold (BBC, 2023) — part of his recent TV run
• Character details: thinner in the public record

The Gold is listed among Hughes’s recent television credits in the career summaries used for this guide. What the profiles don’t do is dwell on his individual character — the coverage treats the series as an ensemble piece. For a fuller sense of how he performs in a lead role, the Victoria years remain the better reference.

What is ‘Legends’ about?

• Legends (Netflix, 2024) — his most current major project
• Status: documented credit, not a fully detailed plot record

Legends is the cleanest answer to the question most fans are actually asking: “what has Tom Hughes been in lately?” It’s a 2024 Netflix series and his most recent major credit, with the title, platform, and year on the record — and he stars in it. Plot details weren’t part of the verified record used for this guide, so this section sticks to what’s documented.

What this means: Hughes’s momentum is in streaming and broadcast drama, not theaters. For fans, the reliable way to track him is to follow the networks and platforms that keep casting him.

This momentum in premium television suggests that Hughes’s future will continue in this direction.

Does Tom Hughes have a child?

Does Tom Hughes have any children?

• No public record of children
• No interview or profile in the cited record mentions a child

No. Across the profiles and reports used in this guide, there is no mention of Hughes having a child. That absence of information isn’t a confirmation in the strict sense, but it is the entire public record. If he had become a parent, the same celebrity outlets that track his relationships would most likely have documented it.

The implication: “does Tom Hughes have a child” has a short answer — there’s nothing in the record. Anyone claiming otherwise without a cited report is repeating speculation, not fact.

How tall is Tom Hughes?

What is Tom Hughes’ height?

• Commonly reported: 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
• Status: reported, not officially confirmed

Hughes’s height is one of the few personal details that multiple outlets agree on. The figure that keeps appearing is 5 feet 9 inches (1.75 m) (ReportDesk (entertainment blog)). No official measurement is on file from Hughes or his representatives, so the accurate label is “reported” rather than “confirmed.”

The catch: fans ask about height because the official record is silent, and the reported number is the closest thing to an answer. It’s consistent across profiles — which is more than can be said for his birth year.

What are Tom Hughes’ most notable acting roles?

Hughes’s career runs from stage training through British TV drama to a compact film résumé. The roles below are the ones that keep showing up in the public record.

What TV shows has Tom Hughes been in?

• Victoria (2016–2019) — Prince Albert
• The Game — Joe Lambe
• Dancing on the Edge — early BBC credit
• The Gold (2023) and Legends (2024) — current credits

His defining television role is Prince Albert in ITV’s Victoria, which ran from 2016 to 2019. Before that, he played Joe Lambe in the BBC drama The Game, a role listed in ReportDesk’s career summary (ReportDesk (entertainment blog)). His early TV credits also include Dancing on the Edge, the series where he first met Jenna Coleman — a detail covered in the relationship section above. The most recent entries are The Gold on the BBC and Legends on Netflix, both covered in the “What is Tom Hughes doing now?” section.

What movies has Tom Hughes starred in?

• Cemetery Junction (2010) — his most-cited film credit
• No major theatrical releases in the recent public record

The answer here is brief. Cemetery Junction (2010) remains his most cited film credit — covered in the movies section above. For viewers asking “what movies has Tom Hughes been in,” the honest answer is: not many recently — his momentum is in television.

The trade-off: Hughes hasn’t chased franchise stardom, and the result is a steady run of high-profile British drama. For audiences, that means the next Hughes credit is more likely to be a TV casting announcement than a film premiere.

What’s confirmed vs. what’s still open

When the research confidence is this mixed, the honest move is to separate the two lists: what the record supports, and what it leaves open.

The imbalance is the story: the career list is longer than the personal list, and that’s exactly why the personal details attract so much speculation. When actors keep private lives private, the rumor columns fill the gap.

What the sources actually said

Hughes rarely gives interviews about his private life, so the record below is built from what outlets and their contacts reported at the time.

“The relationship had run its course and there was no third party involved.”

— source close to the couple, quoted by Metro (UK daily newspaper) in July 2020

“They shared a townhouse in North London before their separation.”

— Entertainment Daily (UK entertainment outlet) on the couple’s home life

The verified record on Tom Hughes is cleaner than the chatter around him. His career is documented in clear strokes — RADA in 2008, Prince Albert across three series of Victoria, and a current run of BBC and Netflix drama — while his personal life rests on a handful of outlet reports with one firm date: the 2020 split from Jenna Coleman. For fans of British period drama, the smartest approach is to follow the work rather than the rumor feed. For anyone tracking Hughes’s next move, the choice is clear: watch Legends now, or accept that the next reliable update will come from a casting announcement, not a tabloid.

Frequently asked questions

These FAQs cover the most common queries about Tom Hughes’s personal and professional life.

Related reading

• Tom Hughes’s role as Prince Albert in Victoria (Heart)
• Tom Hughes and Jenna Coleman relationship timeline (HELLO!)

For further details, refer to the cited sources.