Elke Kellick was a Page Three model in 1980s Britain, a career that put her in front of millions of tabloid readers at a time when the feature carried real cultural weight in British publishing. She married Craig Fairbrass in 1987, stepped back from modelling, and has not given a single press interview in the nearly four decades since.
That is a remarkable record of privacy for someone connected to British entertainment at the level she is. Her husband has spent 40 years on film sets and television screens, worked alongside Sylvester Stallone, Denzel Washington, and Jason Statham, played one of EastEnders’ most talked-about characters, and voiced Ghost in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Through all of it, Elke has been the one face the cameras almost never catch.
Here is what the record actually shows.
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Who Is Elke Kellick?
Elke Kellick, born on February 13, 1965, is a former British Page Three glamour model and the wife of English actor Craig Fairbrass. The couple married in 1987 and have two sons, Jack and Luke Fairbrass. She is 61 years old as of April 2026 and is based in London.
| Date of Birth | February 13, 1965 |
| Age | 61 (April 2026) |
| Height | 5’9″ |
| Profession | Former Page Three Glamour Model |
| Spouse | Craig Fairbrass (m. 1987) |
| Children | Jack Fairbrass, Luke Fairbrass |
| Based In | London, England |
Her Career as a Page Three Model
Kellick worked as a Page Three glamour model during the 1980s. The feature, most closely associated with The Sun newspaper, was at its cultural peak in that decade, and the models who appeared in it were widely recognised public figures in Britain.
She had the look the industry worked with at the time: blonde hair, brown eyes, and a height of 5’9″. Her modelling career ran through the mid-to-late 1980s before she stepped back from public life around the time of her marriage.
The Wikipedia entry for Craig Fairbrass identifies her as a “former Page Three glamour model” — the most authoritative description available in any primary source. Anything beyond that, including claims about international runways, specific fashion houses, or gallery exhibitions, has no verifiable basis in press records or industry databases.
How Craig Fairbrass Met His Wife
Craig Fairbrass was 19 years old when he first encountered Elke at a nightclub in Deptford, southeast London, around 1983. She turned him down, and he came back. After roughly four years together, the two married in 1987, both in their early twenties.
In a 2001 interview with MGN Ltd, the group behind the Daily Mirror, Craig spoke plainly about what that kind of commitment meant to him. He was in the middle of his EastEnders run at the time, playing Dan Sullivan, a character written as a serial womaniser:
“Unlike the cheating men I play, I’ve always wanted the security of a marriage and family.”
That interview contains no quote from Elke Kellick, and no subsequent interview ever has.
A Marriage That Has Run 39 Years
As of April 2026, Craig Fairbrass and Elke Kellick have been married for 39 years, one of the longer marriages in British entertainment by any measure.
Their life together has covered a lot of ground:
- 1987 to early 1990s: Based in the UK as Craig built his television profile through London’s Burning and alongside Helen Mirren in Prime Suspect
- Early 1990s: The family relocated to Los Angeles after Craig secured his Hollywood breakthrough role in Cliffhanger (1993)
- Late 1990s: They returned to England. Craig later described Los Angeles as “a very strange place” to raise children
- 2001: A Daily Mirror interview places the family in Kent, with both sons at home
- 2026: The family is based in London
Her Sons: Jack and Luke Fairbrass
The 2001 Mirror interview provides the most reliable anchor for the sons’ ages. Jack was 13 and Luke was 10 that year, placing Jack’s birth around 1988 and Luke’s around 1991.
Both have built independent careers in different fields.
Jack Fairbrass
Jack attended Coopers School in Chislehurst, Bromley, a selective grammar school in southeast London and consistent with where the family was living at the time.
He started out in film production:
- Breakdown (2016) — producer credit, confirmed on IMDb
- Gunned Down (2017) — producer credit, confirmed on IMDb
He has since moved into finance. His LinkedIn profile lists him at Preqin, a private markets data and intelligence firm operating out of the City of London.
Luke Fairbrass
Luke went through a more structured path before entering film production. He graduated from Royal Holloway, University of London with a degree in Economics, followed by an internship at Revolver Entertainment in film distribution and acquisitions, and time working with Gold Circle Films president Paul Brooks.
He started at the bottom of the industry, as a set runner on St George’s Day and the Ray Winstone thriller Lords of London, then founded Screen 360 PLC in 2011 to raise EIS equity finance for films.
His producing credits include:
- Breakdown (2014) — Soda Pictures release, starring Craig Fairbrass, James Cosmo, and Bruce Payne
- Age of Kill — co-produced for Anchor Bay, starring Martin Kemp and Phil Davis
- London Heist (2015) — sole producer, shot in Marbella and London, starring Craig Fairbrass alongside Steven Berkoff
In July 2024, Luke married at Lake Como, Italy. Craig posted on X the same month: “One of the proudest days of my life, watching my son Luke tying the knot at Lake Como Italy.” The post drew over 91,000 views on the platform.
Her Appearances on Record
Elke Kellick has appeared in public on a small number of documented occasions, almost exclusively at film premieres tied to Craig’s career. Press photo agencies have authenticated three specific events:
| Event | Date | Photo Credit |
|---|---|---|
| St George’s Day World Premiere, Odeon Covent Garden, London | 2012 | PA Images, Sean Dempsey |
| The Hooligan Factory UK Premiere, Odeon West End, London | June 9, 2014 | Getty Images |
| Soul Boys of the Western World Premiere, Royal Albert Hall, London | September 30, 2014 | Getty Images |
The 2012 St George’s Day premiere is the most significant of these. A press photograph by PA Images photographer Sean Dempsey shows the entire Fairbrass family at the Odeon Covent Garden together: Craig, Elke, Jack, and Luke. It is one of the very few authenticated images of all four of them in the same public setting.
The Name She Has Always Used
Elke Kellick did not take Craig’s surname after their marriage. PA Images press captions and Getty Images records from the 2014 film premieres both identify her as Elke Kellick, not Elke Fairbrass. Wikiwand’s entry, drawn from Wikipedia, also lists his spouse as “Elke Kellick (m. 1987)” in his infobox.
Whether this reflects a legal arrangement or a personal preference is not documented anywhere. What is clear is that she has gone by Kellick consistently across close to four decades of marriage.
A search through UK newspaper archives, covering the Daily Mail, The Sun, the Mirror, The Guardian, and The Telegraph, returns no profile, interview, or feature published under her name. For a woman who was a publicly recognised figure in British tabloid publishing during the 1980s, that record of absence is total.
She stepped back from a public career in 1987, raised two sons who went on to build careers of their own, and has kept every detail of her private life exactly that. Nearly 40 years on, the press records still list her as Elke Kellick, the name she had before she ever met Craig Fairbrass.
