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It's only fitting that Michael J. Fox and Tracy Pollan met on a show called Family Ties.
A lot of care went into picking the right actress to play Alex P. Keaton's girlfriend, a strong woman who could match wits with the young Reaganite. Enter Pollan, who at 25 was asked to play 18-year-old dancer Ellen Reed, opposite Fox, who at 24 was playing 19 on the seminal 1980s sitcom.
"People got tired of all those glitzy, power-hungry people jumping in the sack," Pollan told People in 1986. "Alex and Ellen have an old-fashioned relationship. It's unjaded and optimistic with the sweetness of a first love."
Alex and Ellen didn't last, but Fox and Pollan are celebrating 37 years of marriage July 16.
Not that they clicked immediately...
In fact, the two rarely spent time together off set because, as Pollan told People, "I fly home to Kevin the second filming shuts down."
As in her then-boyfriend of five years Kevin Bacon. They met doing a play in New York and shared a Manhattan apartment and a Connecticut farmhouse.
"We will probably marry, but I feel like we're kids still, and marriage is such a grown-up thing," Pollan told People. But also, she added, "I'm gushingly in love."
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Meanwhile, when asked about his new onscreen girlfriend, Fox called Pollan "really a fish out of water in L.A. She's so unassuming and natural that it is hard for her to fit in."
Pollan recalled to People in 2018 of getting to know Fox, "He was funny, but he was cocky." (Though she told Oprah Winfrey for O Magazine in 2002, "From the beginning, I loved his sense of humor and that brain of his. He's so smart.")
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Fox had become one of the biggest stars in Hollywood thanks to the success of 1985's Back to the Future, so life was going at warp-speed, with movie offers pouring in to supplement his full-time job on NBC's Family Ties.
"Before Tracy and I started seeing each other, I was this boy prince of Hollywood," Fox told O. "I had a Mercedes and a Ferrari and a Range Rover, and I was really nuts."
And he was in a relationship with Facts of Life actress Nancy McKeon.
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"I always thought [Tracy] was cool," Fox told People years later, "but it was like a couple of married people who worked together and liked each other."
Yet by the time Fox was rumored to be romancing Courteney Cox, who was playing Alex's new steady girlfriend Lauren Miller, he and Pollan were an item.
"It's really funny," the actor told People in December 1987. "People always want to read there's romance when it's just two actors having a good time working with each other. I'm having a great personal relationship with Tracy and a great professional relationship with Courteney."
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Fox and Pollan's relationship finally blossomed on the set of the movie Bright Lights, Big City, which came out in 1988—not long after Lemon Sky, the TV movie on which Bacon met the love of his life, Kyra Sedgwick, premiered. ( And everyone involved remains friends to this day.)
"It sounds really horrible, but it was one of those things," Fox told People in 1989. "Someone goes, 'Did you hear that so-and-so aren't together anymore?' and you go, 'Hmm, that's too bad. Where's the phone?'"
He proposed on Dec. 26, 1987, seven months after he and Pollan started dating.
"I wasn't really worried that she would say no," he recalled. "The toughest part was trying to figure out when to get married, and then to figure out how nobody else could know about it."
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They had cause for concern.
Pollan and Fox had started to get threatening letters—up to 15 a day—in February 1988 from a young woman who was eventually charged with making terroristic threats and locked up in a psychiatric facility for nine months while awaiting trial. The frightening messages prompted Fox to tighten security everywhere he went, and Pollan started using an alias when she traveled.
Traci Marie Ledbetter later pleaded guilty to three counts of making terrorist threats and was sentenced to three years of probation and ordered to stay away from Fox and his family.
But in the meantime, he and Pollan were determined not to put their life on hold. They got married on July 16, 1988, at West Mountain Inn in Arlington, Vt.—and though the paparazzi found them and helicopters provided an aerial view of the remote location, they had a blast.
When Pollan got pregnant, Fox squeezed Lamaze classes into his shooting schedule. Their first child, son Sam Michael Fox, was born on May 30, 1989.
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"Tracy had a really good pregnancy, and it was a good delivery. Thank God, she was healthy and Sam was healthy," Fox told People in December 1989. "We did the whole womb music deal, where we put the headphones on Tracy's stomach and played everything from Vivaldi to the Allman Brothers."
He added, "It's been a pretty busy 10 years. It's felt like 30."
But he and Pollan loved being parents.
"I kind of shut the door and said to everyone we love who wanted to see the baby, 'Just give us a little bit of time to get used to it ourselves,'" he said. "What's interesting is that the parental instinct just kicks in. The next thing you know, you've got a sore hip because you're holding him all the time."
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And at the time, wherever Fox went, his family joined him.
"Sam doesn't get it," he said. "You can't explain to him that I'm doing a movie. He doesn't really care. All he knows is that he's being dragged someplace. When he was 3 months old, he flew to Canada, then to New York City, then drove to Martha's Vineyard and Vermont, then flew from New Hampshire back to L.A. He's seeing the world, and it all looks the same to him. When you're that age, it's as exciting to go to Van Nuys."
Asked if they thought about having more children, Fox said, "Tracy and I kind of have an agreement. While we're still changing diapers, we don't even talk about it. But I think it's likely; we both come from big families."
Whether or not they looked to their own still-married parents as inspiration, he added, "A lot of that is unspoken. We don't say, 'We're going to be together forever.' It's not that Pollyanna-ish. We just say, 'This is a cool thing. Let's not talk about it—and maybe it won't go away.'"
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But life was about to throw a curveball they couldn't have imagined.
"I thought I'd hurt my shoulder doing some stunt because I had a twitch in my pinkie," Fox said on The Late Show With David Letterman in 2015. "And the doctor said, 'You have Parkinson's disease.' He said, 'The good news is that you have 10 years of work left.'"
Fox was 29 when, in 1991, he was diagnosed with Parkinson's, an incurable degenerative condition of the central nervous system that affects motor function over time. At the time, however, no one could really tell, so he opted not to share the news outside of his trusted inner circle. Fox was working but eventually fell into a depression and started drinking heavily.
"I used to drink to party," the actor recalled on The Howard Stern Show in 2013, "but...now I was drinking alone and to just not be [present]. Every day."
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"So once I did that," he continued, "then there was about a year of, like, a knife fight in a closet, where I just didn't have my tools to deal with it. Then after that, I went into therapy and it all started to get really clear to me."
He realized he had no choice but to take life "one day at a time." Once he figured that out, "then everything started to really turn the other way. My marriage got great, and my career..."
Fox had multiple movies come out every year between 1991 and 1996, when he returned to TV as the lead on ABC's Spin City, about the goings-on behind the scenes at the New York City mayor's office. Already a three-time Emmy winner for Family Ties, he quickly found himself back in the running every year, eventually winning again in 2000 after voluntarily leaving the series.
By then, his secret was out. After undergoing brain surgery to help relieve tremors caused by his condition, Fox publicly shared that he had Parkinson's in 1998—a shocking moment for longtime fans of the star, as well as a turning point for Parkinson's visibility.
From that day on he became the celebrity face of the cause, his and Pollan's Michael J. Fox Foundation having since raised more than $2 billion for Parkinson's research.
"The reason I wasn't telling was that I wondered if people would still laugh if they knew I was sick," Fox told Winfrey in 2002. "Can you laugh at a sick person [onscreen] and not feel like an a--hole? I finally thought, Let me not worry about that. What other people think is none of my business. I just have to have faith in the audience. If it's funny, they'll laugh."
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As for his life off-camera, the actor noted, "When Chris Rock did a benefit for our foundation, he talked about the marriage vows. He said, 'What do they mean when they say, 'For richer'? Of course a woman will stay with you if you're rich! The vows should ask, 'Will you stay with me if I'm sick and broke?' If the woman says yes, then you're in."
Howard Stern suggested to Fox that maybe his marriage "got great" after he realized that Pollan wasn't going anywhere after his diagnosis.
"Exactly," Fox agreed.
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Pollan did find out sooner than she bargained for what "in sickness and in health" meant, but it never occurred to her to not be married to Fox. She quipped to Winfrey that her husband's diagnosis instantaneously cured her own hypochondria, but she acknowledged that there was "absolutely" an adjustment period.
"A lot of my adjustment has been dictated by Michael's point of view," she said. "He's so relaxed and so accepting of where he is, and that makes it easier for me, the kids, and everyone around him."
Since his diagnosis, Fox and Pollan had welcomed twin daughters Aquinnah Kathleen Fox and Schuyler Phyllis Fox on Feb. 15, 1995, and daughter Esmé Annabelle Fox was born on Nov. 3, 2001.
"When I was first diagnosed, my line to Tracy was 'It's going to be okay'—but I was really freaking out," Fox told Winfrey. "I had no idea what Parkinson's was, and I was in denial. After the diagnosis I didn't even get a neurologist. You've probably read in People that I'm a nice guy—but when the doctor first told me I had Parkinson's, I wanted to kill him. I thought, 'What a s--ty thing to say to somebody!' I just knew it was a mistake."
He continued, "So I started drinking a little more to keep from looking at it. I finally got to a pivotal point where I really worked on understanding it. About three years after I'd been diagnosed, I was okay—and that's when life got much better."
"After that," he recalled, "Tracy said to me, 'You showed up again. Your sense of humor was back, and you were just there."
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When Winfrey asked if he felt Parkinson's had been a gift for their marriage, giving them no choice but to become stronger and more in sync if they were to stay together, Fox said, "I've often referred to Parkinson's as the gift that keeps on taking. It's a gift in that it really gave me a whole different appreciation for life. I discovered that I wasn't me minus Parkinson's. I was me plus it. I have been enriched by what it has opened up for me. It hasn't allowed me to take anything for granted."
Before his diagnosis, he added, "I had been constantly taking care of this and making sure that was okay, and now Tracy and I are just in it."
"Through it all we've loved each other," Fox said. Added Pollan, "And that love never died. We had a solid foundation to begin with."
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And to this day, Fox and Pollan remain "just in it."
"It's like dog years!" Pollan said of their then-27-year marriage in 2015, telling People at their foundation's annual benefit, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Cure Parkinson's, that "giving each other the benefit of the doubt" has been a huge serenity-preserver in their marriage.
"There are so many times when you have arguments, when you have things come up, and it really doesn't have anything to do with what he did or said—it's how I am projecting that onto myself," Pollan continued. "A lot of times he'll just say to me, 'You know who I am, would I ever say anything to try to hurt your feelings? Just give me the benefit of the doubt.'"
And Fox is "an amazing father," Pollan added. "He's one of the smartest people I know…and he's pretty cute still!"
"Life is what you put into it and how much you take out of it," Fox told Good Housekeeping in 2011. "You put in more than is expected, and you take out less than you want. Everything is cause and effect. If you don't move, nothing will move with you, and nothing will move toward you. And so that involves risk and also resiliency. But I think I just really want my kids to enjoy life as much as I do."
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Son Sam told Avenue in 2015, "Part of what I get very strongly from my dad is just not worrying about the things that worrying isn't going to help. He tries to teach that as his mindset but if it's not your mindset it's very hard to wrap your head around. My sisters, my mom, are optimists too, but they are not the same kind of roll-with-the-punches optimists that my dad and I are."
Fox told Good Housekeeping that he and Pollan made a point of taking a trip just the two of them every year and try to save gift giving for birthdays and Christmas—but sometimes he slipped up and bought his wife presents for Valentine's Day.
"You know, when our twins were born, they were induced, and we had a choice between February 14th or 15th, and we decided the 15th, because we didn't want to never be able to have a Valentine's dinner because it'd be the girls' birthday," Fox said. "So she carried that weight around an extra day so we could have Valentine's Day."
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Now 40 years since Family Ties brought them together, date nights still include trips to the Emmys and the Oscars—but he and Pollan make a point of enjoying each other's company everywhere, whether it's in another country or on the couch watching TV.
And they deal every day with Fox's condition, together, as a team.
"Tracy wasn't sentimental or romantic about it at all," he told AARP magazine in 2017 about how his wife reacted to his Parkinson's diagnosis back in 1991. "No terror. No big windy..." he searched for the right word.
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"So, no exhibition of grief and fear. Tracy was just like, 'You've got a stone in your shoe. We'll do what we can until you can get it out. In the meantime, if you limp with the stone, that's all right. You can hold my hand, and we'll get over that.'"
For their 35th anniversary in 2023, Fox shared photos of them through the years, writing, "35 years of laugher, living, listening and loving you @tracy.pollan. Thank you for it all."
And on their 36th, Pollan shared a then-photo from Martha's Vineyard along with a recent shot: "Same spot, different year!" she wrote. "Happy anniversary my love, we haven’t changed a bit...I love you!"
The director called action and they kept rolling. Read on for more famous couples who found lasting love on set:
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Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes
No stranger to dating co-stars after romances with Sandra Bullock and Rachel McAdams, Gosling fell for Mendes on the set of The Place Beyond the Pines. But the pair have managed to keep their relationship private since they began dating in 2013.
The couple have since welcomed two daughters, Esmeralda, 8, and Amada, 6, and Mendes opened up about how ending up with The Notebook star changed her opinion on motherhood.
"I was lucky enough to work my bum off for 20 years," the New York & Company designer said on Sydney's Nova 96.9 in October 2020. "I never wanted babies before until I fell in love with Ryan, and then it just kind of worked out to where I was 40 and having my first baby and then I think I was 42 with my second one, so it worked out in that way that I had a career and then I changed my focus to my family."
And she's not ruling out a future on-screen collaboration with Gosling.
"I really want to work with Ryan again. My most fun experience was being on set with him when he was directing," she told E! News. "It was really so creatively satisfying being in it together and he's such an amazing director. I would love that experience again, for sure."
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Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton
The singers, who met on the set of The Voice, have been nearly inseparable ever since they first started dating back in November 2015.
While Shelton and Stefani both admitted that they had initially bonded over the ending of their respective marriages, it seems as though their love affair had lasting power from the get-go.
In an interview with Billboard, Shelton recalled falling head over heels for the singer and how the two ultimately helped each other through their heartache. "Gwen saved my life," he said. "Who else on earth could understand going through a high-profile divorce from another musician?"
After five years of dating, Shelton popped the question in October 2020 and the couple got married in an intimate ceremony in July 2021.
According to Carson Daly, who officiated their wedding, the nuptials were "a perfect blend of country and glamour."
"It was as elegant and refined and cool as Gwen is, and it was country and down-home and fun as Blake is," he told Today, adding, "They just work. They're an unlikely pair. They're like if you paired delicious fried chicken with a glass of champagne. On paper, on the menu, it doesn't seem to work, but it works. They're comfort food with class, and everybody roots for that."
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Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos
The beloved couple first met in 1995 when they played love interests on the popular soap opera All My Children. The morning talk show personality and the Riverdale star then eloped to Las Vegas on May 1, 1996.
Consuelos knew "pretty early on" Ripa was the one for him, once telling Andy Cohen on Watch What Happens Live, "We would go out with groups of people from work and slowly each date would go that the groups started getting smaller and smaller until it was just us two. I was shy, I wasn't very aggressive that way."
But Ripa revealed the couple almost split before their wedding.
"We broke up and we got back together the day before we went off and eloped," she detailed on the Comments By Celebs podcast in 2018. "Yeah, we eloped. We went to Vegas and got married."
More than 27 years and three children later, their marriage is still going strong. And, in a full-circle moment, Ripa and Consuelos are sharing the screen together, with Consuelos officially replacing Ryan Seacrest as her permanent Live co-host this past April.
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Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly
From the moment the Jennifer's Body star met the rapper born Colson Baker on their shared movie set in 2020, she knew their relationship was destined to become what she called a "once in a lifetime" romance.
Chatting with their Midnight in the Switchgrass director Randall Emmett on his and his then-fiancée Lala Kent's podcast in July 2020, Fox recalled inquiring who was going to fill the empty chair on set. "And [Emmett] was like, 'Oh, we just got Machine Gun Kelly,'" she said, "and immediately, I was like, 'Uh oh.' Because I knew, I could feel that some wild s--t was going to happen to me from that meeting but I wasn't sure what. I just felt it in my solar plexus that something was going to come from that."
Fox, who quietly separated from husband of nine years Brian Austin Green in late 2019, went on to call MGK her "twin flame," explaining they were more than soul mates.
They weren't shy about showing their love for one another: Fox starred in Kelly's music video, they got tattoos to mark their romance and made their red carpet debut as a couple before getting engaged in January 2022.
And while they've since split up, they welcomed daughter Saga Blade Fox-Baker in March 2025 and have been coparenting.
“Megan is a great mom,” MGK said on a June 2025 episode of Today. “She’s killing it. I’m so excited.”
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Kit Harington and Rose Leslie
Just as his character Jon Snow couldn't resist falling for Ygritte, Harington fell in love with his Game of Thrones co-star after she joined the HBO fantasy series in its second season. In an interview with Vogue Italia, he recalled shooting those episodes as his favorite memory from the show.
"Because the country is beautiful, because the Northern Lights are magical, and because it was there that I fell in love," he said. "If you're already attracted to someone, and then they play your love interest in the show, it becomes very easy to fall in love."
While their onscreen romance proved ill-fated, Harington and Leslie got married in June 2018 and have since welcomed two children whose names have not been made public.
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Macaulay Culkin and Brenda Song
The Home Alone actor and the former Disney Channel star met making 2019's Changeland and their romance surprised their director Seth Green, who told Esquire, "I didn't see that one coming."
Song explained to Entertainment Tonight that they bonded over their shared backgrounds as child actors. "You just look each other in the eye and you nod and we know," she said.
Engaged since 2022, the couple have two children: Two-year-old son Dakota Song Culkin and a second son who was born last March and whose name has not yet been revealed.
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Sarah Shahi and Adam Demos
The couple met on the set of Netflix's Sex/Life, in which they play angsty former couple Billie and Brad, so it's no wonder those intimate scenes are so steamy: Shahi and Demos went public with their romance in December 2020, with fans loving their adorable displays of affection on social media.
And mixing business and pleasure has been easy for the couple, with Shahi telling E! News that working with her boyfriend is "one of her favorite things." As she put it, Adam is one of her "all-time favorite scene partners."
"With him, it's just that easy," she explained. "I just have to look at him and 99 percent of my work is done for me. I'm falling in love with the person in real life, but I'm falling for the person on camera. It just created that extra bit that seeped through the lens. Maybe that's what people loved so much."
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Emily VanCamp and Josh Bowman
While their characters' love story didn't have a happy ending on ABC's Revenge, VanCamp and Bowman tied the knot on Dec. 15, 2018, and have been together for more than a decade.
In August 2021, the couple announced the birth of their first child together. "Welcome to the world our sweet little Iris," VanCamp wrote on Instagram, revealing their baby girl's name. "Our hearts are full."
In February 2024, Emily announced on Instagram that she is pregnant with the couple's second child.
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Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick
The two met on the set of the 1988 PBS movie Lemon Sky and married later that year and are considered one of Hollywood's strongest relationships after more than 35 years together. The couple are parents to two children—son Travis Bacon, 34, a composer, and daughter Sosie Bacon, 31, who is also an actress.
Jared Padalecki and Genevieve Cortese
And the hunter fell for the irresistible demon—both on and off screen.
Padalecki and Cortese hit it off when she joined Supernatural in its fourth season as Ruby. And after a two-month engagement, they tied the knot in her hometown of Sun Valley, Idaho, in 2010, with his TV bro Jensen Ackles serving as one of the groomsmen.
The couple, who once again co-starred on the CW's Walker with Cortese playing his character's dead wife in flashbacks, have have three children, sons Thomas, 11, Austin, 9, and daughter Odette, 6.
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Josh Dallas and Ginnifer Goodwin
It was a fairy tale romance for Dallas and Goodwin when they co-starred on ABC's fantasy hit Once Upon a Time, playing Prince Charming and Snow White, of course.
"It hit me like a blinding light," Dallas told People in 2012. "I thought, 'I'm in trouble now.'"
As for Goodwin, she knew Dallas was the one when they went on their first date to Disneyland.
"I knew that in fact I was going to marry my husband Josh at Disneyland because I took him for his first time ever and we had just started dating," Goodwin would later detail to Kelly Ripa. "We were on Big Thunder Mountain and he threw his arms in the air and he goes, 'This is the best day of my life' and I was like, 'We're totally getting married.'"
He popped the question in October 2013 and they tied the knot in April 2014. Dallas and Goodwin are the parents of sons Oliver, 9, and Hugo, 6, and the Manifest star is hoping to work with his wife again after their six-year stint on OUAT.
"She's the greatest. I miss working with her every day," he said on Live with Kelly and Ryan. "I think she was like, 'look, we've worked together and we've lived together six years, give me a break.' But I think we'll work together again, I hope so."
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Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys
It wasn't exactly love at first sight for The Americans co-stars when they met 10 years before working together on the acclaimed FX spy drama.
"We actually met a very long long time ago," he confessed on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen. "I very drunkenly asked her for her number when she was a young, single, slip of a thing, so I sort of knew then when I was 26."
But a decade and plenty of wigs later, Rhys and Russell quietly began dating in 2014 while playing married KGB spies. They welcomed their first child together, son Sam, in May 2016. Russell also has two children from her previous marriage, son River Deary and daughter Willa Deary.
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Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn
While they recently teamed up to play Santa and Mrs. Claus for Netflix's The Christmas Chronicles, the beloved Hollywood pair first met on the set of 1968's The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band.
But they didn't fall for each other until reconnecting while filming 1984's Swing Shift, despite Hawn telling BBC News, "We both said we would never go out with another actor." The couple went on to star in the 1988 rom-com Overboard.
Partners for 40 years, Russell and Hawn share son Wyatt Russell in addition to each having children from prior relationships, Oliver and Kate Hudson and Boston Russell.
Asked their secret for working well with each other, Russell quipped to E! News, "Do it every 33 years, first of all!"
Wyatt Russell and Meredith Hagner
Talk about following in your parents' footsteps.
Wyatt, the son of Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn, fell for Hagner after they met while working on the 2016 movie Folk Hero & Funny Guy. Later, the two would go on to appear together in Ingrid Goes West.
After getting engaged in 2018, the couple wed the following year at Goldie's house in Aspen. "It was Western themed and everyone came in cowboy hats and boots," a source shared with E! News at the time. "It was a big casual gathering of family and friends that lasted all weekend."
Russell and Hanger welcomed their son Buddy Prine Russell in November 2021.
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Kate Mara and Jamie Bell
Well, at least one good thing came out of the universally panned Fantastic Four reboot in 2014.
Mara and Bell fell for each other on the set of the superhero flick, though they didn't spark dating rumors until they were spotted holding hands at a Met Gala after-party in May 2015.
After their July 2017 wedding, Bell gushed to E! News, "It feels like we've been married for years. In the best way. We're having a great time."
In May 2019, Mara revealed the couple welcomed their first child. "We had a baby a couple weeks ago..." the A Teacher star wrote on Instagram. "Here are her feet." In November 2022, Mara and Bell announced the birth of their second child in similar fashion: "Had a baby a week ago," Mara shared on Instagram. "Here are his feet." Bell also shares son Jack Bell with ex-wife Evan Rachel Wood.
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Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara
Kate isn't the only Mara sister to find love on a film set.
In 2013, Phoenix and Mara proved their enviable chemistry when they co-starred in the Oscar-nominated film Her. They then shared the screen in the 2018 biblical drama Mary Magdalene, and according to reports, the couple first realized their attraction to one another while filming the project a year prior in Italy.
The private pair made their red carpet debut at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival and quietly got engaged in 2019. And, while accepting the Oscar for Best Actor, The Joker star got emotional while giving Mara a shout-out. Wiping away tears, he told his partner, "I love you."
In September 2020, director Victor Kossakovsky revealed at the Zurich Film Festival that the couple had welcomed a baby boy. He also confirmed that the couple's son was named River, seemingly in honor of Joaquin's late brother River Phoenix, who passed away in 1993 at the age of 23.
Ryan Bingham and Hassie Harrison
Yellowstone fans were twirling their lassos with glee when the co-stars confirmed their relationship with a fiery photo posted to Bingham's Instagram in April 2022. In the post, the two were seen sharing a kiss in front of an open flame, with the actor captioning their PDA post, "More than a spark." As for Harrison's reaction? She commented, "I love you, cowboy."
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Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer
It was love at first bite for the couple, who began dating while filming the first season of HBO's True Blood in 2008.
"There's no one I'd rather work with," Moyer told E! News in 2009. "I love working with her and that's how it all started, by falling in love on camera."
They announced their engagement a year later and tied the knot in August 2010. Moyer and Paquin welcomed twins, Poppy and Charlie, in 2012.
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Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen
Each having a failed marriage behind them, neither star was looking for love when they arrived on the set of Pontiac Moon in 1993.
"I announced to all my friends—not dramatically, but very seriously—that I was done with relationships," Steenburgen told Closer. But the pair fell for each other while playing husband and wife, with Danson revealing they bonded during a scene in a canoe.
"We paddled in sync," Danson said. "We went out as friends and by the time we came back, we were in love... Ironic how life works in those moments. Once you throw up your arms and surrender, a lot of times things come your way."
In October 2020, the couple celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary, with the Book Club actress gushing to Closer, "I'm ridiculously in love with him. I find him endlessly fascinating. He surprises me all the time and most of all he makes me laugh."
The Good Place actor admitted in the same interview, "I get nervous around her because I want to impress her—I am the luckiest."
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Grace Van Patten and Jackson White
After viewers binged the Hulu drama Tell Me Lies, they couldn't help but wonder if Van Patten and White's onscreen chemistry had trickled over into real-life, with the pair fully playing into their are-they-or-aren't-they dynamic in interviews and on social media. And in November of last year, we finally got the answer: No, we're not fibbing, the problematic onscreen pair is together in real-life and, fortunately, toxin-free.
White confirmed their romance with several photobooth snaps from the 2022 CFDA Awards, including a picture of the co-star couple kissing. He then posted a photo of himself and Van Patten touching tongues with the caption, "if we kiss can we get a s2 @hulu." Spoiler alert: It worked! Tell Me Lies is set to return later this year.
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