Olivia Cooke and her rumored boyfriend Jacob Ifan were last pictured in May 2023. Jacob and Olivia began dating in 2021, with Olivia’s fan page sharing photos from their beach outing.
In several of the rumored couple’s pictures, Ifan and Cooke have their close friend and My Lady Jane actor Edward Bluemel as a company. Edward and Jacob were previously flatmates.
After gaining a huge fanbase from the hit HBO show House of the Dragon, several fans have taken a keen interest in Queen Alicent Hightower’s dating life. She was previously in a relationship with actors Christopher Abbott and Ben Hardy.
During the first season of HOTD, many fans paired Cooke, 30, with her co-star Emma D’Arcy, but the latter has their name linked with director Thomas May Bailey. Recently, fans also shared that they believe Olivia could be in a relationship with another HOTD co-star Fabien Frankel.
Who Is Olivia Cooke’s Boyfriend? Is The HOTD Actress Dating Jacob Ifan?
Olivia Cooke and her boyfriend, Jacob Ifan, haven’t confirmed their relationship. The actress has never outright talked about her romantic life in her interviews.
After becoming a household name with House of the Dragon, fans started taking interest in the actress’ dating life. During the 2022 HOTD’s premiere, many fans pointed out that Cooke could be dating Welsh actor Jacob Ifan.
Olivia and Jacob haven’t shared any photos, but Olivia’s fan page has shared several images of the two actors. On September 9, 2021, Olivia Cooke’s fan page shared a beachside photo of Jacob and the actress.
Olivia wore a yellow bikini, and Jacob was bare-chest and wore red underwear. The two were joined by the British actor and their good friend Edward Bluemel, the star of the Netflix show My Lady Jane.
Olivia and Jacob have several mutual friends, and in 2022, the two appeared in an Instagram story of their close friend Bertie. Looking at the photo, Olivia, Jacob, and their friends were enjoying karaoke night.
In May 2022, Jacob and Olivia took a trip to Amsterdam, with the actor sharing Olivia’s photo on his Instagram story. Jacob and the couple’s friend planned an early 29th birthday celebration for the actress in 2022.
Olivia shared an Instagram post, which showed Jacob holding the birthday cake and her friends singing Happy Birthday. After not being seen together for several months, Jacob and Olivia hung out with Edward Bluemel in Belgium in May 2023.
Olivia’s fan page shared a few photographs from the couple’s trip. One of the photographs showed Jacob looking lovingly at the British actress as she sipped her drink while staring at the camera.
Jacob was nowhere to be seen at Olivia’s 30th birthday celebration on December 27, 2023. These sparked rumors that the two actors might have broken up, but there has been no confirmation.
Who Is Jacob Ifan? Get To Know The Welsh Actor
The Welsh actor Jacob Ifan is a 2015 Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama graduate. He was in the same year as Edward Bluemel, with Edward previously mentioning that they were housemates.
Bluemel also said he looks up to Jacob as an inspiration in his interview with Flanelle Magazine. Soon after graduating from RWCMD, Jacob booked a role in the BBC drama Cuffs.
He starred as PC Jake Vickers in the show featuring Ashley Walters, Peter Sullivan, and Amanda Abbington. After appearing in Cuffs, Jacob was seen in Hinterland, a noir crime drama set in Wales.
In 2018 and 2019, the actor worked in short films, including The Power of One Coin and I’ll Find You. During that time, he appeared in the show Bang as Sam Jenkins. He starred as Benjamin Fuchs in the TV series A Discovery of Witches, which also had Edward Bluemel.
In 2022, Jacob appeared as Pat Riley in the hit show SAS: Rogue Heroes. The show has received the green light for season 2, and Jacob will certainly return. Though he is available on Instagram, Ifan rarely shares any posts. But he often shares Instagram stories.
Olivia Cooke’s Former Partners And Relationship History
Recently, Olivia and her co-star, Fabien Frankel, were linked after a video of them attending the press call for HOTD’s Season 2 went viral. In the video, the two haven’t done anything that could suggest they are hooking up off-screen, but fans ran wild with their theories.
Previously, in November 2023, the celebrity blind page, Deuxmoi, shared a blind item about HBO co-stars hooking up. Fans believed this blind item to be that of Olivia and Fabien. At the time, the photographs of the two vacationing in Ecuador with their friends popped up on the internet.
The two were spotted hanging out in Wales in 2023 and 2024, but fans believe it is because of the show’s filming. In May 2023, a few fans also clicked pictures with Fabien and Olivia in Spain, one of the locations for HOTD 2.
Before her dating rumors with Jacob Ifan began, Olivia dated actor/producer Christopher Abbott in 2019. The American actor and British actress were photographed all cozied up by The Daily Mail in June 2019.
By 2019, the couple had been dating for more than three years. The two met while filming the 2016 movie Katie Says Goodbye. In a 2022 interview with The Guardian, Cooke mentioned she and Abbott lived together in New York in 2016.
In 2020, Olivia enjoyed a short-lived relationship with actor Ben Hardy. The two went public with their relationship in February 2020 after falling in love on the sets of their comedy crime thriller Pixie.
But as Britain entered the lockdown, the two stars split up as their romance fizzled out. A source close to the couple told The Sun, “Olivia and Ben were smitten, to begin with, but the intensity soon fizzled out.”
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