Fans have been returning to the world of Agatha Christie over the past few weeks as Netflix added Poirot and Marple to its library.
Agatha Christie's Poirot was a favourite among fans, with the ITV series airing between 1989 and 2014. In the first eight seasons, David Suchet's Poirot was joined by close friend Captain Hastings, who was played by British actor Hugh Fraser.
While Poirot was Hugh's biggest role, the 80-year-old has also appeared in the likes of The Man in the Iron Mask, Edge of Darkness, Taggart, 101 Dalmatians, The Alan Clark Diaries and Sharpe.
When it came to love, the star kept it in the entertainment industry as he married actress Belinda Lang and the pair share a daughter, Lily. Here's all you need to know about Hugh's famous family…
© Mirrorpix via Getty ImagesFamous wife
Hugh has been happily married to Belinda Lang since 1988, with the couple meeting while at the stage door of the National Theatre, with Hugh mistakenly complimenting her for a performance she didn't do.
An accomplished actress herself, Belinda has starred in Dear John, The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries, 2point4 Children and Sister Boniface Mysteries.
Belinda initially wasn't planning on getting married after her father left the family when she was just four. Speaking to the Sunday Mirror in 1999, she confessed: "It's what I hoped marriage would be but there was no evidence of it in my life. I didn't expect to get married...I didn't trust it as an institution. But when I met Hugh I knew we wanted the same thing, something much more than just hanging out together. That was a feeling I'd never had with anyone before."
She continued: "Hugh's got everything that keeps me interested. He's very bright and extremely funny, which is a big thing for me. I have to have that. He has a very clever, sideways humour, a sophisticated take on life just like my mother had, and I really like it.
© Alamy Stock Photo"It keeps me going. Hugh's a truly good man and we still have romance, more than I would ever have expected, and our love has grown and deepened. I hate to say I feel safe in my marriage. It's tempting fate - rather like appearing in Best Quality Designer Handbag magazine – but I do and I feel we give each other strength."
Addressing her life as a working mother, Belinda added: "I work out of choice because I really like acting, but I'm also able to spend huge amounts of time with Lily that other women don't get to spend with their children. The financial structure these days is much more in favour of women working, rather than doing what they really want to do, which is bring up their children. Maybe they'd like a little part-time work, but an awful lot of women don't want to be pushed out to work for financial reasons."
© David M. BenettIn 2007, Belinda joked to The Guardian that her daughter now considered her to be uncool. "Lily and I used to do lots of things together, but now she thinks it's terribly uncool to do anything with me," she told the publication.
"She was terribly anxious about me going to the gig – how ridiculously old I'd look and how embarrassing it would be. She kept trying to put me off by telling me that I'd have to keep my mouth shut or my teeth would get knocked out and that I mustn't wear anything nice because it would be ruined. I wanted to be invisible, so I just wore some black trousers and a black T-shirt and Lily said, 'Oh, Mum! That's so embarrassing! Couldn't you wear jeans?'"
© Getty ImagesIn response, Lily said: "I think Mum and I have a pretty normal relationship. We do argue, but only as much as the next teenager and her mum, although I'm quite lucky because there's never any fuss about me going out and what time I've got to be home – we sorted all that out ages ago.
"We tend to fall out over silly things like eating the right kind of food and me leaving a mess and not clearing it up. Mum's rather eccentric and she can be a bit neurotic, although we're quite similar in some ways. We're both very energetic."
