 In 2019, Wainwright's "Gentleman Jack", a drama about the 18th-century Yorkshire landowner, diarist, and open lesbian, Anne Lister, played by Suranne Jones, and Lister's courtship of Ann Walker, played by Sophie Rundle, premiered on both BBC One in the UK and HBO in the US.Wainwright, who lives in Oxfordshire, married Ralph "Austin" Sherlaw-Johnson, an antiquarian sheet music dealer, in 1990.They have two sons and own two Maine Coon cats.