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That\u2019s not to mention queer family drama Jimpa, or Wicker, starring Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd. Or her new role alongside Andrew Scott in Elsinore, which has just been announced. Colman has even been doing adverts for house raffle Omaze.<\/p>\n
Over the last 25 years, she has acted in some of the country\u2019s most majestic properties, from Somerleyton Hall in Suffolk, which doubled as Sandringham in The Crown, or Hatfield House, where The Favourite was filmed. But where does Colman herself call home?<\/p>\n
From her Peckham townhouse to her Norfolk barn conversion, here\u2019s your guide to where she\u2019s lived.<\/p>\n
Early years: East Anglia and Bristol<\/strong><\/p>\n Colman was born in Norwich<\/p>\n Shutterstock<\/p>\n Olivia Colman is a Norwich girl, born and raised in the cathedral city<\/a>. Much like Colman\u2019s Mustard (no relation).<\/p>\n \u201cWe moved houses quite a lot, just for fun,\u201d she told Vogue<\/a> in 2019. \u201cI had a nice, outdoorsy childhood\u2014lots of camping, lots of walks on very wet beaches with anoraks.\u201d<\/p>\n In the early 90s, she moved to Cambridge to study teacher training at Homerton College, although this was short-lived. A job cleaning houses allowed her to stay in the city \u2013 and audition for student theatre productions.<\/p>\n It was here that she met David Mitchell and Robert Webb, after auditioning for the Footlights \u201cby accident\u201d, as she told The Guardian<\/a> in 2018. It was also the start of another important relationship \u2013 that with her husband, the writer and producer Ed Sinclair (they first said \u2018I love you\u2019 in their student flat, apparently<\/a>).<\/p>\n After Sinclair graduated, he got a place at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, and he and Colman moved west. Ironically, Colman was still working as a temp and cleaner when they relocated, before auditioning herself, training as an actor, and graduating in 1999.<\/p>\n Colman lived in East Dulwich between 1999 and 2011<\/p>\n Daniel Lynch<\/p>\n After leaving Bristol in 1999 and marrying Sinclair in 2001, Colman headed to East Dulwich<\/a> on a budget. \u201cWe had what we call our Angela’s Ashes day when we first moved to London from Bristol (in 1998). I had \u00a31 left in my overdraft and cash machines don’t dispense pounds,\u201d she told The Daily Mail<\/a>. <\/p>\n ‘Ed didn’t have any money either, so we managed to find enough pennies from the sofa to buy one potato to share.’<\/p>\n The couple reportedly bought a two-bedroom flat for \u00a390,000, selling it for \u00a3150,000 two years later.<\/p>\n They stayed in the area, though, buying a four-bedroom Victorian terraced house in 2005. They gained planning permission to extend the property, creating a bigger, brighter kitchen with a skylight along the side and bi-folding doors leading onto the garden.<\/p>\n Other features, a previous listing shows, include wooden floorboards and period fireplaces, as well as a garden office. <\/p>\n Colman sold her Peckham home in 2021<\/p>\n Zoopla<\/p>\n In 2011, Colman, Sinclair and their two children \u2014they now have three\u2014 upsized to a five-bedroom house a short walk away. At 2,400 square feet, the double-fronted Victorian property was almost twice the size of their previous home, spanning three floors.<\/p>\n The couple went for a similar kitchen extension, with another skylight and full-height windows on two sides. Photos show a large kitchen island, a table large enough for 10 and a patio outside for alfresco dining. <\/p>\n As well as the bright, open-plan kitchen, the house has two reception rooms \u2013 the larger of which has wooden floorboards, a fireplace and full-height window shutters, painted grey to match the walls.<\/p>\n Rightmove<\/p>\n Upstairs, there are five double bedrooms, including a master suite with a dressing area and ensuite bathroom.<\/p>\n Outside, Colman and Sinclair had a \u201csupremely generous\u201d 60-foot rear garden, featuring a treehouse on stilts, a trampoline and a swing.<\/p>\n The couple sold the house for \u00a32.27 million in 2021, having bought it for \u00a3885,000 a decade earlier.<\/p>\n Olivia Colman moved to Norfolk in 2022<\/p>\n PA Wire<\/p>\n After cashing in on their Peckham house, she and Sinclair bought a Grade II-listed barn conversion in Norfolk, in a return to Colman\u2019s East Anglian roots.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/norwichcity2802a.jpg\")
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