'She's mine and no one else's': Jude Law admits he couldn't be happier with girlfriend Phillipa Coan as he reflects on getting older in brooding new shoot for Modern Luxury 

A once colourful private life earned him constant off-screen scrutiny following his emergence as one of Britain’s more promising acting exports.

But as a reflective Jude Law, 43, comfortably eases into middle age he admits he’s keen to keep his current relationship with psychologist Phillipa Coan away from the media eye – and he couldn’t be happier.

‘She’s mine and no one else’s,’ he told the latest issue of Modern Luxury. ‘I’m very, very happy. A large part of that is the fact that she’s a very private person.

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Relaxed: As a reflective Jude Law, 43, comfortably eases into middle age he admits he’s keen to keep his current relationship with psychologist Phillipa Coan away from the media eye – and he couldn’t be happier

'And our relationship is a very private thing, and I think part of the fact it works so well is exactly because of that.’

The desire to protect his relationship with Phillipa, 30, who he started dating little more than a year ago, comes following a six-year marriage to actress Sadie Frost, with whom he shares three children, and a short-lived engagement to Sienna Miller.

There have also been additions to Law's growing family, with Samantha Burke giving birth to the actor's fourth child, Sophia, in 2009 and singer Catherine Harding welcoming daughter Ava, his fifth, last March.

‘She’s mine and no one else’s,’ he told the latest issue of Modern Luxury . ‘I’m very, very happy. A large part of that is the fact that she’s a very private person' 

'I love being a dad,' he admitted. 'It’s emotional and exhausting. But it’s also wonderful.'

While the British star has settled down off-screen, he confesses to feeling equally serene about the impact middle age has had on his career choices - not least his latest as Lenny Belardo, an illiberal orphan who works his way to the highest echelons of the Vatican in HBO drama The Young Pope.

'I love how age has such an influence on the job I do,' he said. 'The career you’re having as a 40-year-old actor is completely different than you have as a 20-year-old actor. 

Handsome: Law was speaking to the publication while featuring in a tasteful new photo-shoot that finds him at his brooding best in a series of lavish designer outfits

Play it again Jude: One black and white shot captures the actor at the piano, a still that could easily be taken from one of his more famous, if rather less prominent roles as a doomed jazz musician in 1999 film The Talented Mr. Ripley

'I could never have played Lenny when I was 25 because there’s a certain amount of experience he has that a 45-year-old has that a 25-year-old doesn’t have.' 

Law was speaking to the publication while featuring in a tasteful new photo-shoot that finds him at his brooding best in a series of lavish designer outfits, amongst them a $1,050 blazer from Canali Beverly Hills. 

One black and white shot captures the actor at the piano, a still that could easily be taken from one of his more famous, if rather less prominent roles as a doomed jazz musician in 1999 film The Talented Mr. Ripley. 

And looking back on those earlier days he admits his frustration at being viewed for his disarmingly good looks, rather than his undoubted abilities as an actor. 

'I think for me, personally, for a few years I felt I was doing some really good work as a young actor,' he said. 

'And it seemed people just wanted to talk about what I look like, as opposed to the work I was doing.' 

Reflective: Looking back on those earlier days he admits his frustration at being viewed for his disarmingly good looks, rather than his undoubted abilities as an actor

 

 

 

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