The actors Patti Murin and Colin Donnell both appear to be “living in a cosy cocoon of newborn cuddles” after the birth of their second child, a newborn child named Lorelai. On 7 April 2023, Murin discovered she was expecting while working filming her new Hallmark Channel movie posted on Instagram the news that the baby Lorelai was born on April 2. She was “welcomed by her family with great affection” by her sister Cecily who turns 3 in the month of July.
Murin said, “We are over the over the moon, feeling fantastic and we nap often. Love love love “
In the comments area of the announcement, Murin thanked fans and friends for their kind messages and wrote “We live in a cocoon of baby hugging and Cecily love, with only an tinge of insomnia “
Murin Found Out She Was Expecting While Filming Hallmark Christmas Movie
The Broadway stars met one another in 2013 after they were on stage in the same Shakespeare show, according to Broadway.com They were they were married in the year 2015. They’ve seen success on TV as well, such as becoming regulars on the NBC series “Chicago Med” and appearing in a variety of Hallmark films.
In 2019, according to Hallmark Media, Murin appeared in “Holiday for Heroes” on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries. In 2020 she as well as Donnell appeared together as co-stars in “Love In Iceland” and in 2021 they reunited in “To Find a Snitch.”
However, it was during the filming of “In the Merry Measure” with Brendan Penny and Jennifer Robertson, which premiered in November 2022, when Murin found out her pregnancy was confirmed. In a live tweet that Murin live-tweeted during the film’s premiere, she shared that Robertson as well as the film’s director, Paula Elle, were among the first to hear about her pregnancy announcement.
“I’m fairly certain we shot this scene on the day I learned that I was pregnant,” Murin tweeted. “Our Director Paula as well as Jen Robertson (the genius woman who plays my sister and who is my new BFF in real life) have been among the the first people to be aware of!”
In a strange coincidence, “In Merry Measure” was the sequel to the Hallmark film Murin made while she was pregnant.
On November 20, 2022 the actress told Hollywood Life, “This actually was not the first Hallmark film that I was pregnant with because, when we filmed “Love On Iceland in the final quarter of 2019 I learned the week before our trip into Iceland the fact that I was expecting.”
Patti Murin & Colin Donnell Have Faced Hardships While Growing Their Family
Murin has been posting her thoughts on Facebook about how happy she is now blessed with two daughters who are healthy. In a post posted on April 10, which featured an image of her in her Hallmark bathrobe, holding her two daughters and stated that she could not take a look “without tears.” Two healthy girls isn’t something she or Donnell are content with after enduring a variety of challenges in expanding their family.
In the last quarter of 2016, prior to when Cecily became a baby, Murin suffered a miscarriage at the age of 8 weeks pregnant, according to the New York Times. At time, she was being considered to play Elsa on the Disney Broadway version of “Frozen.”
One week after the miscarriage she wrote in the newspaper that Disney wanted to see her again for an audition, but she said she was grieving too much. She explained to the team that they had seen her enough to be able to tell if she was the person they neededThey accepted, and offered her the job.
In the end, her role as the role of Princess Anna on the Broadway musical that was nominated for a Tony affirmed her determination to be motherhood and helped her feel more ready for the role, while she worked every day with the youngest actors of the cast.
“Obviously whatever you do, you want to have an unharmed and happy child,” she told People in 2020. “But through all the years in “Frozen,” it really inspired me to desire a girl really badly.”
Murin said, “I feel ready to bring up a girl since I’m at a point as a woman, where I’m confident that I know what I would like my children to develop. It’s inspired me to have a sparkly daughter that I can call mine.”
In the month of October in 2020 just three months after Cecily’s birth Murin posted on Instagram the baby was born with an incision in her heart, which required open heart surgery at just 10 weeks old.
Murin wrote “No regardless of how well you think about it, watching your tiny baby girl undergo an extremely serious and in-depth operation is a traumatic experience at most. Helping her recover day by day breath by breath is humbling and uplifting.”
In the month of September in 2021 Murin shared an Instagram post on the health of Cecily and proclaimed the fact that Cecily was “not just healthy, but also thriving and bringing joy to many people every single day.”
