Personal Life
Bremner's first marriage was to Susan Shackleton, a teacher, in 1987, the couple divorcing in 1995. On 11 September 1999 Rory married Tessa Campbell Fraser, and has two daughters, Ava and Lila. They live in Oxfordshire.
Bremner supported Reg Keys in the 2005 election when he stood against Tony Blair as an anti-war candidate.
He was awarded Honorary Life Membership of King's College London Students' Union in the early 2000s. In 2005 he was made a Fellow of his alma mater King's College London. Additionally, he was awarded an honorary fellowship by Queen Mary, University of London in 2008.
He was placed at 49 on ITV's list of TV's 50 Greatest Stars, and in 2008 received the James Joyce Award of the Literary and Historical Society.
Bremner speaks French, German and Spanish. He is also studying Russian in order to read Russian poetry better in the original.
Bremner has been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and has openly addressed it in interviews. In May 2011, he presented a short programme "ADHD and Me" on Radio 4 about living and coping with the condition.
In 2009, Bremner was the subject of the series Who Do You Think You Are? in a quest to research about his father, whom he barely knew. His father had served in the 1st Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment during the war and was often away from home. Bremner traveled to 's-Hertogenbosch, the Dutch city liberated by the East Lancs, amongst other places to retrace his father's footsteps. Together with his brother, they traced their father's ancestry and discovered that their great-grandfather John Ogilvy had served as a surgeon general during the Crimean War and was later posted to various British colonies.
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