Lynn Presser is the wife of Leonard Whiting. Lynn Presser’s husband Whiting is a British actor and singer widely known for his role as Romeo in the 1968 Zeffirelli film version of Romeo and Juliet, a role which earned him the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor.
How did Lynn Presser and Leonard Whiting meet?
Much is not known about how the couple first met but it is known that Lynn Presser was the assistant of Leonard Whiting. Before he got married to Presser, Whiting was in a previous marriage and other relationships. In 1971, Whiting married model Cathee Dahmen. In 1972 they had a daughter, Sarah Beth Whiting, who died in 2014 from cervical cancer.
Following his divorce from Dahmen in 1977, Whiting had a relationship with Valerie Tobin, who gave birth to their daughter Charlotte. Charlotte has said publicly that she did not meet her father until she was 12, by which time she had taken her stepfather’s surname Westenra, whom her mother had married in 1982. Charlotte Westenra became a theatre director.
In 1995, Whiting married his assistant, Lynn Presser. The couple got married in a beautiful ceremony in the presence of their friends, family, and loved ones. Whiting ended his film career, for the most part, in the mid-1970s and subsequently focused on his theatrical career as an actor and writer. Lynn Presser and her husband live in Steele’s Village, London.
Does the couple have any children? The couple has not made any public utterances regarding whether they have any children or not. There isn’t much information available regarding Lynn Presser, she has always kept herself far away from the public eyes.
Presser’s husband Leonard Whiting
Lynn Presser’s husband, Whiting was born on 30 June 1950, in Wood Green, moving with his two sisters to Holloway, another area of North London, England. The only son of Peggy Joyce (O’Sullivan) and Arthur Leonard Whiting, he has English, Irish, and some Romani ancestry.
Presser’s husband’s love of performing was encouraged at his local Church and Primary School, St Josephs R.C Highgate, where he and his sister Linda acted in the school’s nativity plays. Leonard went on to attend St. Richard of Chichester School, Camden Town, leaving just a week or two before beginning work on Romeo and Juliet (1968).
Whiting had some success as a child singer, almost winning a Butlin’s Talent Contest (he came second) hosted in the holiday camp’s packed out Gaiety Theatre.
Whiting played the Artful Dodger in the long-running London musical for 15 months, and for 13 months in 1965–1966 appeared at Laurence Olivier’s National Theatre in the production of William Congreve’s Love for Love opposite Olivier, which toured Moscow and Berlin.
Director Franco Zeffirelli described his discovery, from 300 youngsters who auditioned over a period of more than three months: “He has a magnificent face, gentle melancholy, sweet, the kind of idealistic young man Romeo ought to be.”
Lynn Presser’s husband was cast as the Pharaoh in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in London’s Westminster Theatre between 27 November 1978 and 17 January 1979. This was a Ken Hill production with the Pharaoh played by Whiting in the style of Elvis Presley.
In 2014, Lynn Presser’s husband, Leonard Whiting reunited with Olivia Hussey for the film Social Suicide (2015), their first work together in the 46 years since Romeo and Juliet.
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