Gabriella Wilde—our blue-blooded blonde bombshell with the face of a Pre-Raphaelite painting and the body of a Calvin Klein campaign—turns 36 today. And yes, she’s still got it. Actually, scratch that. She never lost it.
Born Gabriella Zanna Vanessa Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe (that’s a hell of a moniker for a woman who doesn’t need one), she’s the kind of Brit who makes aristocracy look like a dirty secret and high fashion feel like a rebellion. Descended from baronets and banking dynasties, she could’ve coasted on a family crest. Instead, she carved her own path—cut-glass cheekbones first—into the savage worlds of modelling and film.
Discovered at 14, Wilde graced campaigns for Burberry, L.K. Bennett, and Abercrombie & Fitch, all while looking like she’d just wandered out of a gothic novel in thigh-high boots. But modeling was never the endgame. Acting came calling, and in 2011 she properly hit the screen in The Three Musketeers, swashbuckling her way into the hearts of any man with a pulse. A couple years later, she starred opposite Alex Pettyfer in Endless Love (2014), a glossy, hormonal fever dream where she played the unattainable dream girl with soul behind the smoulder.
She’s since lent her cool, calculated elegance to roles in Poldark and Wonder Woman 1984, proving she’s not just another pretty face—though, let’s be honest, it’s a pretty unforgettable one. There’s a slow-burn intensity to Wilde. She’s not screaming for attention on social media, and that only makes her hotter. You want to know more, because she doesn’t give it all away.
And yes, gentlemen, she’s a mother—three times over, no less. A full-blown yummy mummy who looks like she walked straight off a Vogue cover shoot and into a Regency romance. Married to musician Alan Pownall since 2014, she somehow manages to raise a family and still look like she just stepped out of a secret garden party, champagne flute in hand, laughter ready to spill from lips the colour of sin.
Gabriella Wilde isn’t the kind of woman you scroll past. She’s the one you save. She’s high-society meets high-fantasy, old-world beauty with modern steel. And on this day, her 36th spin around the sun, we raise our glasses and tip our hats to one of England’s most devastating exports.
Happy Birthday, Gabriella. May your cheekbones never soften, your smirk never fade, and your mystery remain just out of reach.
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Last modified: April 9, 2025
