Felicity Blunt is a British literary agent at Curtis Brown whose career has developed from book publishing into international rights, literary estates and television production. She joined Curtis Brown in 2005 and has represented writers across literary and commercial fiction and nonfiction, including Bonnie Garmus, Claire Keegan, Meg Mason and Rosamund Lupton. She also works with the estates of Daphne du Maurier and Jilly Cooper.
Outside publishing, Blunt is widely recognised as the older sister of actor Emily Blunt and the wife of actor and writer Stanley Tucci. Those relationships explain some of the public interest in her, but they are only part of her story. Her professional career was established years before her marriage to Tucci, and her work on books such as Lessons in Chemistry and the television adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s Rivals has given her a distinct place in contemporary publishing and screen rights.
From law training to Curtis Brown
Publishing was not Blunt’s original career plan. She studied law and trained toward the Bar, but has said that she decided against beginning pupillage and changed direction before establishing a legal practice.
Her move into publishing began with an internship at the Wylie Agency, followed by work experience at Curtis Brown. She officially joined Curtis Brown in 2005 and has since worked for the agency in both London and New York.
That distinction matters because Blunt is sometimes described simply as a “former barrister.” Her own account is more precise: she trained for the Bar but chose publishing before commencing pupillage.
Her early years as an agent were gradual rather than an immediate ascent. Blunt has identified Rosamund Lupton’s novel Sister as the first book she sold, in 2008, and has said she did not begin to feel firmly established in the profession until several years later.
Over time, her list expanded across different parts of the trade. Curtis Brown’s current profile names authors including Claire Keegan, Meg Mason, Abi Daré, Elizabeth Day, Shari Lapena, Gillian McAllister, Rosamund Lupton and Bonnie Garmus. Her work also includes international publishing and media rights, making the job broader than simply matching writers with British publishers.
The book deals that established her reputation
One of the clearest examples of Blunt’s work as an agent is Bonnie Garmus’s debut novel Lessons in Chemistry.
The manuscript became the subject of intense publisher interest in 2020. Curtis Brown Creative reported that it was sold to Doubleday after a 16-way auction and had already secured publishing deals in more than 22 territories around the time of that year’s virtual Frankfurt Book Fair. Trade publication Publishers Weekly independently reported the scale of the international interest.
The episode illustrates several parts of a literary agent’s role at once: identifying a manuscript, working with an author on its development, negotiating domestic publishing rights and coordinating international opportunities. The subsequent success of Lessons in Chemistry involved publishers, producers and many other contributors, but the original deal remains one of the most visible milestones in Blunt’s career.
Her client list also shows the range of books she represents. Claire Keegan is associated with acclaimed literary fiction, while authors such as Shari Lapena and Gillian McAllister work in commercially successful suspense and crime. Blunt’s representation of major author estates adds another dimension, because managing a literary estate can involve new editions, international rights and adaptations long after a work was first published.
Jilly Cooper, Rivals and the move into television
Blunt’s relationship with the late novelist Jilly Cooper became particularly significant as Cooper’s work moved onto television.
She represented Cooper during the later part of the author’s career and, following Cooper’s death in October 2025, continued her professional connection through the Jilly Cooper estate. The Associated Press identified Blunt as Cooper’s agent in its reporting on the novelist’s death, while Curtis Brown’s current materials list the estate among Blunt’s responsibilities.
That relationship also brought Blunt into screen production. She serves as an executive producer of Disney+’s Rivals, the adaptation of Cooper’s novel of the same name.
The series became a major television success. In November 2025, Rivals won the International Emmy Award for Drama Series. The award belongs to the programme rather than to Blunt individually, but its recognition reinforced the prominence of a project on which she holds an executive-production credit.
Her involvement also demonstrates how literary representation can extend beyond the original publishing deal. For agents working with valuable intellectual property, books can generate international editions, audio rights and screen adaptations. Blunt’s career increasingly sits at that intersection between publishing and television.
As of August 2026, that work remains active. Disney said in June that the first six episodes of Rivals season two were streaming, with another six scheduled for November 2026. The company has also commissioned a 12-episode third season and again names Blunt among the executive producers.
Her marriage to Stanley Tucci also has a publishing dimension
Blunt married Stanley Tucci in 2012. The couple have two children together, and Blunt is also stepmother to Tucci’s three children from his first marriage.
Although their marriage is a major reason Blunt appears in general-interest and entertainment coverage, the relationship has also overlapped with her professional life.
Blunt has described helping to revive rights connected with one of Tucci’s earlier cookbooks. The couple later collaborated as authors on The Tucci Table: Cooking With Family and Friends, published by Gallery Books on 28 October 2014.
The book is a useful example of how their shared public profile differs from a conventional celebrity-spouse narrative: Blunt’s connection to Tucci has included publishing work as well as family life.
She is also the eldest of four Blunt siblings. Her younger sister Emily Blunt, the actor known for films including The Devil Wears Prada, A Quiet Place and Oppenheimer, is the best known of the other siblings publicly. Felicity’s publishing career, however, developed independently of Emily’s film career and had already begun before Felicity became part of the Tucci family.
What is known about Felicity Blunt’s age?
Blunt’s exact date of birth is not securely established in reliable public sources.
Published profiles and biography sites have given conflicting birth years, and stronger sources do not provide enough evidence to settle the discrepancy confidently. For that reason, a precise age or birthday should not be stated as established fact.
The same caution applies to several other details often attached to celebrity-adjacent profiles. There is no sufficiently authoritative public evidence for a precise Felicity Blunt net-worth figure, and estimates circulated by low-quality biography sites should not be treated as verified financial information.
The reliable public record is substantially stronger on her professional history than on these personal statistics.
Where Felicity Blunt’s career stands now
More than two decades after joining Curtis Brown, Blunt remains an active literary agent with a list that spans established writers, commercially successful novelists and significant literary estates.
Her work now covers more than conventional author representation. International rights and adaptation strategy form part of the broader business around her clients’ work, while Rivals has given her a direct executive-production role in television.
The continuing relationship with the Jilly Cooper estate is especially important to that current phase of her career. It connects long-term literary representation with the management and adaptation of an author’s work after death, while the commissioned third season of Rivals means Blunt remains attached to one of the most visible screen projects arising from that catalogue.
For writers hoping to approach her directly, Curtis Brown’s profile said as of August 2026 that Blunt was temporarily closed to submissions because of limited capacity on her list. That is a time-sensitive professional status and may change.
Final thoughts
Felicity Blunt is often introduced through two famous relationships: she is Emily Blunt’s older sister and Stanley Tucci’s wife. But those connections provide context rather than the strongest explanation of her public significance.
Her own career runs from legal training and publishing internships to more than 20 years at Curtis Brown, major international book deals, representation of prominent writers and literary estates, and executive production on Rivals. That progression—from books and rights negotiations to the screen adaptation of valuable literary properties—is the clearest way to understand why Felicity Blunt has become a notable figure in publishing in her own right.
