Womack was born in Liverpool in 1961, eldest son of Frances (née Dean)[citation needed] and Tom Womack. He has a younger brother and sister.
He attended high school in Childwall, Liverpool, and later attended RADA, London.[2]
Womack married Mary Therese McGoldrick in 1995. They had one son together before their 1997 divorce.[citation needed] Womack soon began a relationship with his married Liverpool 1 costar Samantha Janus. Janus's marriage ended in divorce in 1998, and she and Womack married on 16 May 2009.[3] They have two children together.[4] In August 2020, Janus announced that she and Womack had separated in 2018; but were still living together in the same house with their children.[5]