Perdita Weeks: She Has Never Been Married. “Kit Frederiksen” Does Not Exist.

For years, celebrity biography websites listed Perdita Weeks as married to a man named “Kit Frederiksen” since 2012, with twin sons born in 2013. The photograph circulated alongside this information showed a dark-haired man identified as her husband.

That man is Ben Feldman. He co-starred with Weeks in the 2014 horror film As Above, So Below. He is married to Michelle Mulitz. He has his own family. He is not Kit Frederiksen. Kit Frederiksen does not exist as a documented real person connected to Perdita Weeks in any primary source.

In April 2019, Weeks addressed the fabrication directly on Twitter: “I would remember if I was married.”

IMDb’s biography section on her now explicitly states: “There is a false rumor that she has a husband ‘Kit Frederiksen’ (supposedly married 2012) and twin sons (supposedly born 2013). They do not exist. A picture of her supposed husband shows actor Ben Feldman who co-starred with her in As Above, So Below.”

Despite these corrections — from the subject herself and from the most widely used entertainment database — variations of the Kit Frederiksen story continued to circulate on secondary websites, copied from whatever original source generated it. This is the article that documents what is actually confirmed about Perdita Weeks and how this specific fabrication spread.

Quick Facts

Detail	Information
Full name	Perdita Rose Annunziata Weeks (Rose Annunziata per TV Guide, Fandom; “Rose” only per Wikipedia/IMDb main)
Born	December 25, 1985, South Glamorgan (Cardiff), Wales, UK
Parents	Robin Weeks and Susan (née Wade) Weeks
Siblings	Honeysuckle Weeks (older sister, actress — Foyle’s War); Rollo Weeks (younger brother, former actor)
Education	Roedean School, East Sussex; Courtauld Institute of Art, London (Art History)
Career start	Age 7–8, Goggle Eyes (1993)
Notable early TV	The Rag Nymph (1997) with Honeysuckle; Midsomer Murders (2003)
Notable film	As Above, So Below (2014, lead); Ready Player One (2018)
Defining role	Juliet Higgins — Magnum P.I. reboot (CBS/NBC, 2018–2024, 5 seasons, 96 episodes)
Other notable roles	Mary Boleyn in The Tudors (2007–08); Lydia Bennet in Lost in Austen (2008); Penny Dreadful; Rebellion; The Musketeers; The Gold
Also directed	Episodes of Magnum P.I. (confirmed by Fandom and TV Guide — listed as “Actress, Director”)
The husband hoax	“Kit Frederiksen” — does not exist; photo was Ben Feldman (co-star from As Above, So Below)
Weeks’ own response	April 2019 Twitter: “I would remember if I was married.”
Actual relationship status	Not publicly confirmed; maintains private life
Current project	Fountain of Youth (listed on filmography)

The Weeks Family — An Acting Household

This is the biographical foundation that rarely gets full treatment.

Perdita is the middle child of three siblings all drawn into acting through the same initial event. When Perdita was approximately six years old, a casting agent discovered all three Weeks children. Honeysuckle, the eldest, is best known for playing Samantha Stewart in the acclaimed ITV drama Foyle’s War — a role she held across multiple series. Rollo, the youngest, pursued acting in his teens and twenties with credits including Miss Potter (2006, the same film in which Perdita also appeared), and has more recently been reported to have moved away from acting into business.

Perdita and Honeysuckle strongly resemble each other and shared the screen in the 1997 Catherine Cookson adaptation The Rag Nymph — playing younger and older versions of the same character. They had previously appeared together in Goggle Eyes (1993). That kind of sibling co-casting in primary roles is unusual enough to be worth documenting: both sisters were already credible young actresses before Perdita turned twelve.

Their father Robin Weeks is not in entertainment. Their mother Susan is not in entertainment. The family’s creative environment, described by TimEasy.co.uk as “deeply connected to the arts,” appears to have come from exposure and early casting rather than from parents already in the industry.

The Courtauld — What It Says About Her

This detail appears in every biography and is rarely unpacked.

The Courtauld Institute of Art is one of the most respected art history research institutions in the world. It is not a film school. It is not a drama conservatoire. It is a postgraduate-focused institute attached to the University of London, focused on art history, conservation, and criticism. Its alumni and faculty include major curators, art historians, and critics.

Perdita Weeks chose to study art history there after Roedean — a leading English boarding school — rather than pursue formal drama training. This means her acting education is primarily experiential: she began working professionally as a child and continued while building an academic foundation in art history rather than performing arts.

This is not an unusual path for British actors who entered the profession young. What it does suggest: she did not pursue the standard drama school route (RADA, Guildhall, Bristol Old Vic) that British television actors commonly take. Her academic formation was in a completely different discipline, and she integrated the two independently.

Career — The Timeline That Matters

Her career divides cleanly into three periods.

Child and early career (1993–2006): Goggle Eyes (1993), Spice World (1997, a brief appearance), The Rag Nymph (1997), Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking (2004), Miss Potter (2006), Midsomer Murders (2003). She appeared in a TV commercial with actress Jane Asher for McVitie’s biscuits — a brand placement that tells you how embedded in British commercial culture she was as a child performer.

British television and film (2007–2017): This is the period with the most tonal range. The Tudors (Mary Boleyn, 2007–08) — a Showtime prestige drama requiring period performance. Lost in Austen (Lydia Bennet, 2008) — a modern-audience reimagining of Pride and Prejudice. Four Seasons. Prowl (2010, horror). The Great Fire. The Musketeers. The Promise. Penny Dreadful. Rebellion — the Irish historical series about the 1916 Easter Rising. The Invisible Woman. Great Expectations. Grantchester. And As Above, So Below (2014) — a found footage horror film set in the Paris Catacombs, in which she played the lead: an archaeologist-adventurer seeking a relic connected to her father, filmed in actual Parisian catacombs.

American television (2018–2024): Cast in March 2018 as Juliet Higgins in the CBS reboot of Magnum P.I. — a gender-swapped version of the original character Jonathan Higgins (played by John Hillerman in the original 1980s series). The role ran five seasons, moved from CBS to NBC in its fourth season, and concluded in January 2024 after 96 episodes. She also appeared in Ready Player One (2018) — a Steven Spielberg blockbuster released while she was filming Season 1 of Magnum. And she appeared in a Hawaii Five-0 crossover episode in 2020.

The Higgins Role — The Gender Swap That Held

The original Magnum P.I. (1980–1988) starred Tom Selleck as Thomas Magnum and John Hillerman as Jonathan Higgins — Magnum’s employer, a former British MI6 agent turned estate manager. The dynamic was adversarial, comedic, and grounded in class and cultural differences.

The 2018 reboot cast Jay Hernandez as Magnum and changed Higgins to female — a creative choice that initially generated skepticism from fans of the original. The decision also created narrative possibilities the original did not have: the Magnum-Higgins dynamic in the reboot carried romantic tension that eventually became central to the show’s final seasons.

Weeks was confirmed to continue in the NBC pickup despite some uncertainty after CBS cancelled the series. The show concluded on its own terms after Season 5.

She also directed episodes within the production — listed on both Fandom and TV Guide as “Actress, Director” — which represents a meaningful career expansion beyond performance.

“Kit Frederiksen” — The Fabrication Documented

The IMDb biography note is precise enough to quote as the primary documentation of what happened: “There is a false rumor that she has a husband ‘Kit Frederiksen’ (supposedly married 2012) and twin sons (supposedly born 2013). They do not exist. A picture of her supposed husband shows actor Ben Feldman who co-starred with her in As Above, So Below (2014). Weeks even tweeted about it in 2019.”

Ben Feldman is an American actor known for Silicon Valley and the Superstore. He co-starred with Weeks in As Above, So Below in 2014. He is a publicly documented person with his own biography, his own marriage, and his own family. He is not “Kit Frederiksen.”

What appears to have happened: someone — the original source is not identified in any public record — created a fabricated biography for Perdita Weeks that included a husband named “Kit Frederiksen” and twin sons. A photograph of Ben Feldman, likely from press materials for As Above, So Below or from a public appearance with Weeks in 2014, was attached to this fictional identity. The information was inserted into what appears to have been a Wikipedia entry or a celebrity database, and from there it propagated across biography sites and fan wikis that copy from those sources.

The fabrication was specific enough — a full name, a marriage year, children’s birth year — to appear plausible to readers who had no reason to verify it. Celebrity biography databases frequently contain unverified personal life information because marriages and relationships are not registered with any industry organization. This makes them uniquely vulnerable to this type of insertion.

Weeks’ April 2019 tweet was direct: “I would remember if I was married.” The phrasing is precise — not “that’s not true” but “I would remember” — making the absurdity of the claim explicit. She did not need to explain that she would know her own marital status.

Despite this, as of the research period for this article, some secondary biography sites still reproduce the Kit Frederiksen information. The correction did not propagate as efficiently as the original fabrication.

The Middle Name Question — “Rose” or “Rose Annunziata”?

Wikipedia lists her as “Perdita Rose Weeks.” IMDb’s main listing says “Perdita Rose Weeks.” TV Guide lists her as “Perdita Rose Annunziata Weeks.” The Magnum P.I. Fandom wiki uses “Perdita Rose Annunziata Weeks.”

“Annunziata” is an Italian female name associated with the Annunciation — the announcement to Mary that she would bear Jesus. It is used in Catholic tradition and Italian cultural contexts. It is an unusual middle name for a Welsh woman, but unusual middle names are not unheard of in British naming traditions.

The discrepancy between sources including and excluding “Annunziata” is the kind of minor biography variation that typically reflects some sources having access to fuller official records than others. TV Guide and the Magnum fandom wiki including it suggests the name exists; Wikipedia and IMDb’s omission of it is more likely a truncation than a denial.

What Is Actually Known vs. What Is Not

Confirmed from primary sources (IMDb, Wikipedia, her own Twitter, TV Guide):

• Born December 25, 1985, South Glamorgan (Cardiff), Wales
• Full name includes “Rose” and possibly “Annunziata” as middle names
• Parents: Robin and Susan (née Wade) Weeks
• Siblings: Honeysuckle Weeks (older) and Rollo Weeks (younger), both actors
• Educated at Roedean School and Courtauld Institute (Art History)
• Child acting career from approximately 1993
• Major roles: The Tudors (Mary Boleyn), Lost in Austen (Lydia Bennet), As Above, So Below (lead), Magnum P.I. (Juliet Higgins, 5 seasons, 96 episodes)
• Also directed episodes of Magnum P.I.
• Appeared in Ready Player One (2018)
• “Kit Frederiksen” does not exist — photo used was Ben Feldman
• Debunked the hoax herself on Twitter, April 2019: “I would remember if I was married”
• Actual relationship status not publicly confirmed

Minor discrepancy:

• Middle name: “Rose” (Wikipedia/IMDb) vs. “Rose Annunziata” (TV Guide, Fandom)

Fabricated and debunked:

• Husband “Kit Frederiksen” (does not exist)
• Marriage in 2012 (did not happen)
• Twin sons born 2013 (do not exist)
• Photo identified as “Kit Frederiksen” is Ben Feldman, her As Above, So Below co-star

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FAQ — 12 Real Questions

1. Who is Perdita Weeks?
A British actress born December 25, 1985, in Cardiff, Wales. She began acting as a child in the early 1990s, built a career across British television and film, and became internationally known as Juliet Higgins in the CBS/NBC reboot of Magnum P.I. (2018–2024).

2. Is she married to someone called Kit Frederiksen?
No. “Kit Frederiksen” does not exist as a documented real person connected to Perdita Weeks. The name, the supposed 2012 marriage, and the supposed 2013 twin sons are all fabricated. Weeks addressed this directly on Twitter in April 2019: “I would remember if I was married.”

3. Who is in the photo identified as “Kit Frederiksen”?
Ben Feldman — an American actor who co-starred with Weeks in the 2014 horror film As Above, So Below. He is a publicly documented person with his own career and family. IMDb explicitly notes this misidentification in its Perdita Weeks biography section.

4. Where is she from?
Cardiff (South Glamorgan), Wales, UK. She was raised in the English countryside and educated at Roedean School in East Sussex and the Courtauld Institute of Art in London.

5. Who are her siblings?
Honeysuckle Weeks — her older sister, a British actress known primarily for the ITV drama Foyle’s War. Rollo Weeks — her younger brother, a former actor who has reportedly moved into business. All three were discovered by a casting agent when Perdita was approximately six years old.

6. What did she study at university?
Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London — one of the world’s leading art history research institutions. She did not study drama formally; her acting training came through decades of practical experience beginning in childhood.

7. What is her most significant role?
Juliet Higgins in the Magnum P.I. reboot (CBS, 2018–2022; NBC, 2022–2024). The role ran five seasons and 96 episodes and required her to relocate to Hawaii for filming.

8. Who is Juliet Higgins in the Magnum P.I. reboot?
A gender-swapped version of the original series’ Jonathan Higgins — a former British MI6 agent and estate manager who serves as Thomas Magnum’s employer and eventually his romantic partner. The dynamic between Magnum and Higgins was central to the show throughout its run.

9. Did she direct as well as act in Magnum P.I.?
Yes. She is listed as “Actress, Director” in both TV Guide and the Magnum P.I. Fandom wiki, indicating she directed episodes within the production in addition to her regular acting role.

10. What is her full middle name?
Wikipedia and IMDb list her as “Perdita Rose Weeks.” TV Guide and the Magnum P.I. Fandom wiki include “Annunziata” as a second middle name: “Perdita Rose Annunziata Weeks.” The fuller version appears in sources with access to more complete records.

11. What happened after Magnum P.I. ended?
The show concluded in January 2024. She is listed in Fountain of Youth on her filmography. Her next significant project has not been publicly announced as of the research period.

12. How did the Kit Frederiksen fabrication spread?
The exact original source has not been publicly identified. It appears to have entered celebrity biography databases — possibly through a Wikipedia vandalism — with a full fabricated name, marriage year, and photograph misidentified from her 2014 co-star Ben Feldman. From there, it propagated across biography sites that copy from those databases without independent verification. Her own 2019 Twitter correction was documented but did not fully reach all sites that had published the false information.
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