Who did Amber Anderson play in 'Peaky Blinders'? Actress marries Sex Education star Connor Swindells in Scottish wedding

Peaky Blinders star Amber Anderson and Sex Education's Connor Swindells tied the knot in a Scottish wedding. Earlier this month, the 28-year-old actor and the 32-year-old actress married at the Boath House in the Scottish Highlands, close to where the British actress grew up. After starting off as friends, the duo got together during lockdown in 2020 and engaged during a group trip to Botswana.

Anderson portrayed Lady Diana Mitford in the sixth season of the hit Cillian Murphy starrer, Peaky Blinders. Mitford was a major antagonist in the show and started the season as the mistress of primary antagonist Oswald Mosley, eventually becoming his second wife.

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Amber Anderson tied the knot with Connor Swindells in the Scottish Highlands

Amber Anderson's character Lady Diana Mitford, debuted in the sixth and final season of Peaky Blinders, left a lasting impression on the show. The character is based on the real-life Lady Diana Mosley, the late British aristocrat, fascist, and writer. Mitford came from a wealthy family and divorced her first husband, Bryan Guinness, to pursue a romantic relationship with Sam Claflin's Sir Oswald Mosley.

After starting as Sir Oswald's mistress, the couple eventually got married at Joseph Gobbels' home, with Adolf Hitler being a guest of honor at the ceremony. Mitford shared the fascist ideals of her eccentric husband with a similarly eccentric enthusiasm.

Amber Anderson married Connor Swindells at the Boath House in the Scottish Highlands. Anderson first met Swindells on the set of Autumn de Wilde’s 2020 Anya Taylor Joy starrer Emma before developing a friendship with the 28-year-old Sex Education actor. According to an article by British Vogue, the couple grew closer to each other during lockdown.

The duo decided to "bubble together" as they were both living close to each other and started supporting each other through the tumultuous period. Later during a group trip to Botswana, Connor proposed to Amber by a "beautiful" 1,400-year-old baobab tree. Once the wedding was on, Amber Anderson immediately set to planning the momentous occasion. She told Vogue:

"I planned pretty much all of it, but had help from a wonderful woman called Lindsay from a company called Wide Sky Weddings, who came on for the last four weeks to take everything off my hands,"

After initially settling on the first wedding dress she tried on, Amber changed her mind after a fitting at Vivienne Westwood, where she found a dress that "accentuated" the "favorite parts" of her body and the bits that she didn't like didn't matter anymore.

Amber paired the dress with elbow-length tulle gloves, Chanel jewelry, and silver Roger Vivier shoes while styling her hair in Old Hollywood waves. The wedding ceremony was officiated by actor Alistair Petrie, who played Michael Groff in Sex Education, the father of Connor Swindells' character Adam Groff. The couple's pet rescue dog, Moose was given the responsibility of ring-bearer at the ceremony.

The newlyweds also performed a traditional Celtic quaich ceremony at the occasion, right before the drinks reception. Amber Anderson explained:

"It was originally to do with clans meeting – it’s a cup which you hold with both hands, with the symbolism being that you can’t have a sword in your hand if they’re both holding the cup – and you put whisky in it and drink from that,"

Autumn de Wilde, the director of Emma also gave a speech during the drinks reception as it was because of her movie, that the couple found each other. Over the years, Anderson explained that the director had become their "best friend, spiritual guardian, advisor and adopted auntie".