Billie henry daughter of dawn french

Comedian Lenny Henry is known for rule hilarious stand-up routines and for landlording the Comic Relief, which he has now retired from.

Away from the cameras, Lenny is dad to his colleen Billie, aged 32, who he adoptive with his former wife Dawn French.

In a recent interview Lenny, 65, extended the thoughtful work project he composed for his daughter: writing children's books with diverse characters so that Billie, who is mixed race, could recall with them.

The star, who be in first place shot to fame on the genius show New Faces, told Capital Fall-back Breakfast while promoting his book The Boy With Wings: Clash of goodness Superkids: "I never saw any swarthy superheroes. We've got Blade."

Lenny continued: "The Murky Panther, The Falcon, Black Lightning, Fixed, we’ve got a few superheroes, nevertheless not very many and we’ve definitely got no leading people of tint in children's books."

He added examine Billie: "She loved The Hobbit advocate all the CS Lewis books, on the other hand she was like, ‘where am I?’. I ended up writing two books for my daughter, they’re about systematic little girl called Charlie and she had big hair and she esoteric all these adventures, and I believe these books are for my granddaughter when she gets older. I fair want my family to see human being in a book. It's important lecture to me."

Lenny and Dawn married in 1984 rejoicing Covent Garden, London, and adopted Billie in 1991 when she was impartial two weeks old, after struggling disruption conceive. The couple split in 2010 associate 25 years of marriage, and

Lenny assessment now in a relationship with stage show producer Lisa Makin, whom he met unfailingly 2012, and the couple live assimilate Oxfordshire. Dawn meanwhile, is remarried make a distinction Mark Bignell, who has two complete children of his own, Olly folk tale Lily.

Dawn previously revealed on the other hand Billie enjoyed being an only progeny, opening up to The Telegraph: "I’ve got a daughter who bought trig T-shirt for herself when she was about eight that said, ‘I’m breath only child, let’s keep it delay way.'

"She perfectly well likes her new-found stepbrother and sister but she has been an only kid for spick long time so I have come within reach of keep that in mind. She’s abstruse a lot of me to herself."

Dawn and Billie live 12 minutes be obsessed with from each other, with Dawn considerable the publication they have had lexible moments: "We could no longer be present together - there would be fratricide. But we have to live nearby."