Killing Eve's Fiona Shaw goes for stroll with wife Sonali Deraniyagala in London

Fiona Shaw cut a casual figure as she went for an evening stroll with her wife Sonali Deraniyagala in London this week.

The Killing Eve actress sported a grey top and matching tracksuit bottoms along with a pair of trainers for the day.

The couple looked in high spirits as they laughed and chatted with each other after going to the gym.

Fiona, 60, recently told how she was 'loving' domestic bliss with her other half, 56, as she said: 'I married and that calms you down. 

'I didn't really have a domestic life because I was always working. But I do have one now, which I love.' 

Fiona, who plays Carolyn Martens, head of the Russia Section at MI6 in the show, is also known to film audiences for her role as Aunt Petunia in the Harry Potter series. 

The actress' wife Sonali is an economist who previously told of her tragedy at losing her husband and two sons in the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. 

Dr Deraniyagala was on a Christmas break in her native Sri Lanka along with her economist husband Stephen Lissenburgh, their sons, Vikram, five, Nikhil, seven, and her parents Gemini and Edward. 

They were staying at the Yala Safari Beach Hotel in the south of the country, which was directly in the path of the tsunami.

As they spotted impending giant waves surging towards them, Dr Deraniyagla and her husband grabbed their children, rushed out of the hotel and attempted to escape in a jeep, not even having time to collect her parents from a nearby room.

As the family tried to race away they became submerged in a 30 feet wall of water.

'I think he (Stephen) saw the wave when it was rising and when it was coming at us,' she recalled the last moment she saw her husband alive.

'The last I saw of Steve was that look on his face where he looked completely aghast, seeing something that I couldn't see...

'But I couldn't turn back; I didn't have time to turn back and look ... because that's when the jeep turned over and we were all dispersed.'

Tragically, she was the only one who survived. The bodies of Vikram and her parents were found several days after the tsunami while Stephen and Nikhil were discovered months later in a mass grave and were identified through DNA tests. 

The devastating loss sent Dr Deraniyagala into years of depression during which time she contemplated suicide and also abused alcohol and prescription pills, as she confessed in Wave, a moving memoir she wrote in 2013 about her struggle to come to terms with what had happened.

After months of living in near isolation in Colombo, Dr Deraniyagala moved to New York where she was treated by eminent psychotherapist Mark Epstein who specialises in the area of traumatic experiences.

It was he who initially suggested that she start writing down her thoughts, which formed the basis of her award-winning memoir.

'It was so painful to write,' she once said. 'The trauma of it, the joy of our life, all of it. You can't have one without the other.'

The book won a host of awards and was described by some critics as one of the best ever written about coping with tragedy and family loss.

In addition to her heartache, it also contains extensive sections of the happy family life Dr Deraniyagala enjoyed, from her son's obsession with cricket and wildlife to spending moments with her husband and their holidays in Sri Lanka.

It so moved Fiona, who read it in New York while starring in the Broadway production 'The Testament of Mary' in 2013 that she asked to meet its author and the two were introduced through mutual friends, hitting it off straight away.

The couple now have homes in Islington, north London and Chelsea, in New York's Manhattan district. 

Source: Daily Mail

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