Editing Jason Isaacs (section)

==Personal life==
Isaacs moved in with his girlfriend, [[BBC]] documentary filmmaker Emma Hewitt, in 1987.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lacey |first1=Hester |title=Q&A with actor Jason Isaacs |url=https://www.ft.com/content/88358d4a-54d5-11e9-a3db-1fe89bedc16e |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210/https://www.ft.com/content/88358d4a-54d5-11e9-a3db-1fe89bedc16e |archive-date=10 December 2022 |url-access=subscription |website=[[Financial Times]] |date=5 April 2019 |access-date=5 April 2019}}</ref> They began dating while studying at the [[Royal Central School of Speech and Drama|Central School of Speech and Drama]] and were married in 2001.<ref name="larryking">{{cite web |title=Actor Jason Isaacs Joins Larry King on PoliticKING |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6-8dN6nZFc | archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211030/a6-8dN6nZFc| archive-date=30 October 2021|work=[[Larry King]] |date=14 May 2015 |access-date=15 August 2016 |at=03:44 |quote=We got married in the end, my wife and I, for insurance purposes.}}{{cbignore}}</ref> They have two daughters.<ref name=Lester/>

Isaacs has described himself as "profoundly [[Jewish secularism|Jewish but not in a religious way]]".<ref name=Lester/> He does not keep [[Kashrut|kosher]]<ref name="playingvillains" /> and is an [[Jewish atheism|atheist]].<ref name = o'toole/> He has spoken of travelling unrecognised to film premieres on the [[London Underground]], but said that "as soon as [he] get[s] on the red carpet they start screaming and screaming".<ref name=Rees>{{cite news |first=Jasper |last=Rees |title='There is a streak of cruelty in me': Actor Jason Isaacs Says Life Prepared Him to Become a Specialist in Unattractive Characters |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]], Review |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/drama/3662761/There-is-a-streak-of-cruelty-in-me.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/drama/3662761/There-is-a-streak-of-cruelty-in-me.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |date=27 January 2007 |access-date=13 December 2015}}{{cbignore}}</ref> He is involved with a number of charities and is a patron of the Scottish veterans charity [[Bravehound]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Jason Isaacs: 'I manage to find simple happiness in simple things'|url=https://www.bigissue.com/latest/jason-isaacs-i-manage-to-find-simple-happiness-in-simple-things/|work=Big Issue|date=20 July 2020|access-date=7 February 2021|archive-date=26 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126041654/https://www.bigissue.com/latest/jason-isaacs-i-manage-to-find-simple-happiness-in-simple-things/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Harry Potter Star Jason Isaacs Joins Stage Project To Help Veterans Cope With War Trauma|url=https://www.forces.net/military-life/events/harry-potter-star-jason-isaacs-joins-stage-project-help-veterans-cope-war|work=Forces Net|date=10 July 2020|access-date=7 February 2021|archive-date=26 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126074956/https://www.forces.net/military-life/events/harry-potter-star-jason-isaacs-joins-stage-project-help-veterans-cope-war|url-status=live}}</ref>

In British politics, Isaacs has long supported the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] and has said that he will never support the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]].<ref name="nevertory" /> In 2011, he said that he endorsed Labour on its educational policies but opposed its involvement in the [[2003 invasion of Iraq]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/bad-boy-does-good-jason-isaacs-new-project-is-all-heart-1666086.html|title=Bad boy does good: Jason Isaacs' new project is all heart|website=[[Independent.co.uk]]|date=22 October 2011|access-date=1 September 2017|archive-date=8 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171008231946/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/bad-boy-does-good-jason-isaacs-new-project-is-all-heart-1666086.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2019, he referred to U.S. President [[Donald Trump]] as a "vainglorious man" and described the British political scene as an "[[Eton College|Etonian]] ''[[Lord of the Flies]]'' situation".<ref name="playingvillains">{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/jason-isaacs-deserting-corbyns-labour-raising-climate-activists/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/jason-isaacs-deserting-corbyns-labour-raising-climate-activists/ |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title = Jason Isaacs on deserting Corbyn's Labour, raising climate activists, and the joy of playing villains|newspaper = The Telegraph|date = 4 October 2019|last1 = Kelly|first1 = Guy}}{{cbignore}}</ref> He also called Labour leader [[Jeremy Corbyn]]'s handling of [[Antisemitism in the UK Labour Party|antisemitic allegations about the Labour Party]] "appalling".<ref name="nevertory">{{Cite tweet|user=@jasonfolly |number=1123643857328123904|title=I never have and never will be a Tory. I'm a life-long Labour supporter who's sickened by our appalling leadership at a time when our country needs it most. At the immoral political games being played to gain power by a man who posed as above it and, yes, by genuine antisemitism. https://t.co/MYJb6jZZSb}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-post-corbyn-uk-jews-unite-against-twitters-lax-response-to-anti-semitism/|title=In post-Corbyn UK, Jews unite against Twitter's lax response to anti-Semitism|website=[[The Times of Israel]]|access-date=7 July 2021|archive-date=9 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709193653/https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-post-corbyn-uk-jews-unite-against-twitters-lax-response-to-anti-semitism/|url-status=live}}</ref> Ahead of the [[2019 United Kingdom general election|2019 UK general election]], he campaigned for former Labour member [[Luciana Berger]] in her unsuccessful bid to become the [[Liberal Democrats (UK)|Liberal Democrats]]' MP for the [[Finchley and Golders Green (UK Parliament constituency)|Finchley and Golders Green]] constituency.<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://www.cityam.com/general-election-night-who-are-the-big-mp-casualties/|title = General Election night: Who are the big MP casualties?|date = 13 December 2019|access-date = 7 July 2021|archive-date = 9 July 2021|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210709190451/https://www.cityam.com/general-election-night-who-are-the-big-mp-casualties/|url-status = live}}</ref>

In August 2020, Isaacs revealed that he had achieved sobriety after struggling with a drug and alcohol addiction for over two decades.<ref name="drugs">{{cite web |last1=Chung |first1=Gabrielle |title=Harry Potter Star Jason Isaacs Reveals His Past 'Decades-Long Love Affair with Drugs' |url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/celebrity/harry-potter-star-jason-isaacs-reveals-his-past-decades-long-love-affair-with-drugs/ar-BB17wVpm |website=[[MSN Entertainment]] |access-date=10 October 2020 |archive-date=25 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230425061454/https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/celebrity/harry-potter-star-jason-isaacs-reveals-his-past-decades-long-love-affair-with-drugs/ar-BB17wVpm |url-status=live }}</ref> He traced his experience back to being 12 years old, when a bartender gave him and his friends a bottle of [[Southern Comfort]], after which he "woke up with a splitting headache, stinking of puke with a huge scab and the memory of having utterly shamed [himself]".<ref name="drugs" /> He subsequently "chased the sheer ecstatic joy [he] felt that night for another 20 years with increasingly dire consequences".<ref name="drugs" /> He eventually realised he needed help, but asked fans on [[Twitter]] not to congratulate him on his sobriety as "pride is the worst part".<ref>{{cite web |last1=McGrath |first1=Rachel |title=Jason Isaacs thanks 'every addict and alcoholic who's ever lifted me up' as he celebrates sobriety 'Decades-Long Love Affair with Drugs' |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/jason-isaacs-sobriety-alcohol-addiction-a4564531.html |website=[[Evening Standard]] |date=6 October 2020 |access-date=10 October 2020 |archive-date=8 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108024050/http://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/jason-isaacs-sobriety-alcohol-addiction-a4564531.html |url-status=live }}</ref>