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Emilie Livingston – Bio, Age, Facts About Jeff Goldblum’s Wife
Unlike the wives of some other celebrities, Canadian rhythmic gymnastics champion Emilie Livingston thrived on her own small fame before she met and married Jeff Goldblum. However, Goldblum’s fame added up to hers to bring her much wider public attention. In addition to being a retired professional rhythmic gymnast, Emilie Livingston is also a dancer, aerialist, contortionist and performance coach. During her active days as a gymnast, Emilie performed for the Kalev RSG Club.
Livingstone underwent extremely rigorous gymnastics training in Russia at a very young age with no one around to cheer or encourage her. To this day, she still wonders how she managed to survive. But that’s just a tip of the iceberg of the numerous facts about Jeff Goldblum’s wife. Read on to learn more about them.
Emilie Livingston Bio (Age)
Emilie Livingston was born on January 4, 1983 in Etobicoke in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Livingston began dancing at the tender age of two. Back then, she always followed her mother and older sister to their dance classes. However, after attending a 6 a.m. Rhythmic Gymnastics concert in Toronto, she began training in ballet and artistic gymnastics and performed at local gymnastics shows in her hometown.
Emilie later left her birthplace for Russia at the age of ten to pursue professional rhythmic gymnastics. There she enrolled in the Novogorsk camp in Moscow, where she received ballet training from the Bolshoi coaches. She was also trained by highly qualified Russian gymnastics coaches Lusi Dimitrova and Irina Viner.
In 1998, Emilie Livingston competed at the Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, taking 2nd and 3rd places in the team and club competitions. At 16, Emilie represented her country at the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. During the tournament, she won the gold medal in the individual all-around stage of the Women’s Rhythmic Gymnastics Championship. The next year she represented Canada at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. There she finished 18th in the individual all-around tournament.
Performing Arts
In addition to sports, Emilie Livingston studied acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Los Angeles. So far she has acted in a number of films. She starred in the 2016 musical film as Emma Stone’s body double. La La Land where she performed aerial dances on her behalf . She also starred in a pole dance scene of the 2017 3D space opera, commissioned by Rihanna, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.
Emilie has also acted in performance episodes of a number of television series, including The LXD , Joy and The Voice . She has also performed at various gala awards alongside famous artists such as Jennifer Lopez and Taylor Swift. She also appeared in Justin Bieber’s “Beauty and the Beat” music video in 2012.
How she met and married Goldblum
Emilie Livingston married Jeffery Lynn Goldblum in 2014. Jeff Goldblum is a famous American actor and jazz musician Jurassic Park and Independence Day . Besides music, he is known as a member of the jazz band Jeff Goldblum & The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra.
Emilie met Jeffery in 2011 at the popular Equinox gym on LA’s famous Sunset Boulevard. Jeff had walked up to her in the middle of the crowd and struck up a conversation. He then invited her to his live concert at the Rockwell Club in Los Angeles, where she mesmerized everyone with Michelle Pfeiffer’s “The Fabulous Baker Boys” dance steps, which she demonstrated on Jeff’s grand piano while he performed.
After meeting, the two became friends and began a relationship. After dating for about two years, they became engaged in July 2014 and subsequently married on November 8 of the same year. The wedding took place at the Chateau Marmont Hotel in Los Angeles, California.
Emilie has two children with Jeff. The first, a boy named Charlie Ocean, was born on July 4th, 2015. Five months before Charlie’s arrival, on January 9th, 2015 to be exact, Jeff Goldblum happily shared the news of his coming on The Late Show with David Letterman. The second boy, River Joe, arrived on April 7, 2017. Jeff did the same for River, announcing on January 11, 2017 that he was expecting.
The family of four lives in Los Angeles, California with their dog.
Facts about Jeff Goldblum’s wife
1. Emilie Livingstone weighed just 38kg at the 2000 Olympics.
2. Emilie placed 26th in the individual all-around stage of the 1999 Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships.
3. She is Jeff Goldblum’s third wife. Jeff was previously married to Patricia Gaul (1980-1986) and Geena Davis (1987-1990).
4. Emilie and her husband are among the many celebrity couples who have big age gaps. While she was born in 1983, her husband was born in 1952. That’s a difference of 31 years!
5. As a special wedding gift, Livingston Goldblum revealed she was expecting it the night before her wedding.
6. The beautiful but petite contortionist described Jeff’s love for her as “innocent, passionate, tender and honest” in an Instagram post.
7. Livingston has modeled in brand ads for Samsung, Levis, Neutrogena, Mercedes and Fruit of the Loom.
