These Celebrity Couples Fell in Love While on Set

Published on September 11, 2023
Hollywood is full of young people chasing that big break. It’s easy to meet people while jumping between jobs, but it’s hard to make it last. The pressure is real because celebrity couples are also in the media, and everyone loves to gossip about them. Actresses and actors often have erratic schedules, and infidelity runs rampant in Hollywood. Those big breakups get the front-page news, but there are some storybook love stories in Hollywood who seem to defy the odds. Here are some couples who may or may not have made love last while working together on set.

Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith

Will met Jada while filming The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. She auditioned to be his girlfriend but didn’t get the part. Still, she got his attention. They started as friends and had a beautiful wedding in 1997. They have two children together.

Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith

Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith

Mary Steenburgen and Ted Danson

Ted and Mary met while on the Pontiac Moon set in 1993. They married in 1995. In fact, they worked on a few projects, including Gulliver’s Travels, a miniseries. Over 20 years later, they’re still super close.

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Mary Steenburgen and Ted Danson

Mary Steenburgen and Ted Danson

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Rita Wilson and Tom Hanks

Tom and Rita met in 1981 when she appeared in Bosom Buddies, his campy sitcom. He was already married and had a child. Still, they reconnected while doing Volunteers in ’85 and got married in 1988. They seem to be doing pretty well!

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Rita Wilson and Tom Hanks

Rita Wilson and Tom Hanks

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Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn

Kurt and Goldie have been together forever. While they aren’t married, they still make a great pair. In fact, they met on a Disney film set, and he was just 16 when he met Hawn, when she was 21. Though they didn’t start dating until later in life, they have a very solid and strong relationship that’s still going today.

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Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn

Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn

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Tracy Pollan and Michael J. Fox

Tracy and Michael have been together and married for over 30 years. They met on Family Ties, but she was already in a relationship with Kevin Bacon, and he was dating Nancy McKeon. Still, he became famous through Back to the Future, left McKeon, and got with Tracy, who he’s still with today.

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Tracy Pollan and Michael J. Fox

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Christine Taylor and Ben Stiller

Ben and Christine met during filming for Heat Vision and Jack, which was a pilot that never came to be. Still, they felt it was a life-changing event, and they got married in 2000. They’ve even worked together for many films, and though they separated in 2017, they have since reconciled.

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Isla Fisher and Sacha Baron Cohen

Isla is a beautiful actress, and Sacha is an actor and comedian. She was in Wedding Crashers, and he’s more of a satire writer. They got married in 2010 and now have three kids together.

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Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell

Matthew and Keri met while filming The Americans. The off-set romance was kept secret, but they did let the world know in 2014. Still, they’d been together for over a decade before that and met at a kickball party.

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Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell

Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell

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Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly

It seems that the Hollywood “beautiful” people always end up together. Jennifer and Paul met during A Beautiful Mind and got married two years later. They also have two kids and were in The Avengers movies together.

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Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly

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Freddie Prinze Jr. and Sarah Michelle Gellar

Sarah is well-known for being in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and she met Freddie on the set of I Know What You Did Last Summer, which came out in 1997. They waited for a few years, got married in 2002, and now have two kids.

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Freddie Prinze Jr. and Sarah Michelle Gellar

Freddie Prinze Jr. and Sarah Michelle Gellar

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Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick

Kevin was a huge success in the 1980s because of Footloose and Diner. However, he was doing a PBS production when he met Kyra. They waited less than a year to get married, and he said it was the most amazing feeling in the world.

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Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick

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Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher

The first time Ashton and Mila kissed was on the That ’70s Show, and they both co-starred. Though they dated other people, they stayed in touch. Then, sparks flew after Kutcher and Demi Moore got divorced. They got married two years later and now have two kids together.

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Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher

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Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds

Ryan and Blake met while filming The Green Lantern. However, they were already in relationships with other people. As those fizzled out, they found each other again, getting married in 2012. Now, they have three kids together.

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Justin Theroux and Jennifer Aniston

Jennifer and Justin worked on Tropic Thunder together in 2007. However, they were in relationships with others, so they waited. Still, they got married in 2015, though it was a secret ceremony, and despite that, they separated in 2018.

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Justin Theroux and Jennifer Aniston

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Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani

Gwen and Blake met while filming The Voice in 2014, and both were getting divorces. However, they finally broke it off with their current spouses and connected again. They officially tied the knot in 2021.

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Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani

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Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone

Both people were in The Amazing Spider-Man together and were a great on-screen couple. However, that shifted to off the screen. Everyone felt that they were destined to be together, but sadly they split in 2015.

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Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally

This couple met in 2000 while rehearsing for The Berlin Circle. Romance blossomed, and they married in 2003. She starred in the fun Will & Grace, and he was known to be a guest on the show.

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Mark Consuelos and Kelly Ripa

Kelly met Mark at a screen test for All My Children. They fell in love immediately and actually played lovers on television. They eloped in 1996 and have three beautiful children together.

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Tim Daly and Tea Leoni

Tea is currently dating Tim, and they fell in love on Madam Secretary. In fact, he’s her on-screen husband. They have tons in common because they both attended Putney School in Vermont and had the same teachers, too!

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Cory Monteith and Lea Michele

Lea and Cory started up a romance after meeting on Glee‘s set. They were happy together for two years and were quite serious about the relationship. However, Cory sadly died in 2013 of an overdose at 31 years old.

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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie

Everyone called them “Brangelina,” and their love affair all started while filming Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Pitt was already married, but they fell in love with each other. However, they got divorced in 2016 after being together for 12 years.

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Liam Hemsworth and Miley Cyrus

Miley and Liam met while filming The Last Song, and those sparks flew. Though he said they wanted to be professional, they did feel something. Still, they dated for a while, and they got married in 2018. They have since divorced.

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Amber Heard and Johnny Depp

Amber and Johnny met while filming The Rum Diary. Though he was with someone else, they broke up, and he and Heard got married in 2015. However, she filed for divorce just a year later, accusing him of abuse. They went through a bitter, public fight in court.

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Morena Baccarin and Benjamin McKenzie

Benjamin and Morena met while filming The O.C., though he wasn’t ready for anything serious. However, she got divorced, and they started a committed relationship soon after. They had a daughter in 2016 and got married one year later.

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Morena Baccarin and Benjamin McKenzie

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Rachel Weisz and Daniel Craig

Daniel and Rachel were good friends before they started dating after playing in Dream House. The tabloids were the first to find out, and they got married in 2011. They have one child together.

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Hayden Panettiere and Milo Ventimiglia

Milo and Hayden met on the set of Heroes. They became romantic while filming, which pushed them into the spotlight. Though they tried to hide it, they did go public back in 2007. However, they broke up two years later.

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Eva Mendes and Ryan Gosling

Ryan and Eva met while filming The Place Behind the Pines and developed a relationship quickly. They started dating, with their first one at Disneyland. Now, they have two children together and are still happy, though they never officially married.

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Leighton Meester and Adam Brody

Adam always seemed to have an on-set romance brewing, so it was surprising to most when he and Leighton started dating out of nowhere. They were both on teen TV shows and met while filming The Oranges. They got married in 2014.

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Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem

Penelope and Javier met while filming Jamon Jamon. However, they didn’t start dating until they were filming Vicky Cristina Barcelona. Two years later, in 2010, they got married and now have two children together.

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Josh Dallas and Ginnifer Goodwin

Ginnifer and Josh met while filming Once Upon a Time, which was an ABC series in 2001. They sparked well together, both on-screen and off-screen. In fact, they got married in 2014 and now have two kids together.

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Eddie Cibrian and LeAnn Rimes

Eddie and LeAnn had a controversial start to their relationship. They first met while filming Northern Lights, but they were already married to others. Their cheating scandal was a media sensation, but they never backed down and have been together ever since.

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Claire Danes and Hugh Dancy

Hugh happened to be in New York in 2007 to work on a show. Claire was filming The Evening. They met and instantly had sparks. In fact, he changed his entire life because he stayed in the US and fell in love. This couple got married in 2009.

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Alexis Denisof and Alyson Hannigan

Alyson and Alexis met while filming Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She was there from the start, but he didn’t show up until season 3. Regardless, they got married in 2003 and now have two kids.

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Lauren Morelli and Samira Wiley

Samira and Lauren met while filming Orange is the New Black, a Netflix series. Lauren was a writer, and Samira was Poussey Washington. Though Lauren was married at the time, she got divorced, this couple blossomed fast. They ended up marrying in 2017.

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Benjamin Millepied and Natalie Portman

Natalie and Benjamin met while filming Black Swan, though one was a choreographer and the other starred in the movie. Regardless, Portman said it was a beautiful moment and wonderful to be around him. They have seen filed for divorce following allegations that he was unfaithful to her.

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Rose Leslie and Kit Harington

Kit and Rose met while filming Game of Thrones back in 2012. The couple played lovers on the show, but they hid their real-life relationship away until 2016. They officially got married in 2018 and have since had two children together.

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Josh Bowman and Emily Van Camp

Emily and Josh met while filming Revenge back in 2011. They started dating almost immediately and went public with their relationship in 2012. They married in 2018 and had their first child in 2021.

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Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer

Stephen and Anna met while auditioning for the film True Blood. They both got their parts, and they were highly attracted to each other from the moment they started filming. They married in 2010 and now have three kids.

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Vincent Kartheiser and Alexis Bledel

Vincent and Alexis are most known for being in different TV series and playing starring roles. However, they waited to date for a long time. In fact, they were fully professional and got married in 2014. However, they divorced in 2022. They have one son together.

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Trai Byers and Grace Gealey

Grace and Trai met while filming Empire, a Fox series. They began dating, but they tried to keep everything under the radar, especially when you consider how other celebrities act. Still, they married in 2016 and had a child in 2023.

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