These Celebrities Met Their Loves While Working On Set

Published on June 6, 2023
These days, it’s pretty common for people to meet their partners online, whether on a dating app, or a good old fashioned dating website. However, sometimes people still do meet in person, and the most common place to meet a partner in real life is at work. That’s what happened to these celebrities, who fell in love while at work on set. How many of these did you already know about?

Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith

Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith met all the way back in the 90’s, on the set of his show The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. While Smith did not end up landing the role, she did land the leading man. They got married in 1997 and share two children together, Willow and Jaden.

Will Smith And Jada Pinkett Smith

Will Smith And Jada Pinkett Smith

Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen

In 1993, Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen were filming Pontiac Moon, and they fell in love. They got married two years later in 1995, and have gone on to star in several more films together, including Gulliver’s Travels. He became the step father to Steenburgen’s two children.

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Ted Danson And Mary Steenburgen

Ted Danson And Mary Steenburgen

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Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson

Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson first met in 1981 when she guest starred on an episode of Bosom Buddies, a sitcom that Hanks was in. However, at the time, Hanks was already married. Once the pair met once again in 1985 on the set of Volunteers, they were both single. Hanks once told Oprah Winfrey:  “Our relationship isn’t magic — the way it’s shown in movies. In real life, our connection is as concrete as me sitting here. We both know that no matter what, we’ll be with each other — and we’ll get through it.”

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Tom Hanks And Rita Wilson

Tom Hanks And Rita Wilson

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Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell

Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell first met in 1968 while filming The One And Only Genuine Original Family Band, when he was just 16 and she was 21. They didn’t get together until 1983 and they were filming Swing Shift. The pair has been together ever since, never officially getting married. They have one son together named Wyatt, and also raised Hawn’s children from her previous relationship, Kate and Oliver Hudson.

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Kurt Russell And Goldie Hawn

Kurt Russell And Goldie Hawn

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Michael J. Fox and Tracy Pollan

Michael J. Fox and Tracy Pollan first met while she was on an episode of his show Family Ties. However, she was in a long term relationship with Kevin Bacon at the time, while Fox was dating Nancy McKeon, his co-star. After the two relationships ended, Fox and Pollan got together, and have been together ever since. They officially got married in 1988, and they share four children together.

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Michael J. Fox And Tracy Pollan

Michael J. Fox And Tracy Pollan

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Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor

Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor met one another while working on TV show Heat Vision and Jack. Though the pilot was not actually picked up by Fox in the end, the two got together and eventually got married in 2000. They have since collaborated frequently together on films like Dodgeball, Zoolander, and Tropic Thunder. Though they broke things off in 2017, after quarantining together during the COVID pandemic for the sake of their two kids, they ended up reconciling.

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Ben Stiller And Christine Taylor

Ben Stiller And Christine Taylor

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Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys

Keri Russell met Matthew Rhys in 2013 while they were working on The Americans, a TV show where they play spies that are married to one another. They quietly began dating and only made their romance public in 2014. Their son was born in 2016, and they began to refer to one another as husband and wife in 2021.

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Keri Russell And Matthew Rhys

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Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany

Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany met on the set of A Beautiful Mind in 2001. They got together then, and married two years later. They have two children together. Now the two both appear in superhero franchises, with Connelly starring in Hulk and Bettany appearing in several of the Avengers films.

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Jennifer Connelly And Paul Bettany

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Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr.

Way back in 1997, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prince Jr. met while on the set of the horror film I Know What You Did Last Summer. They began dating later, in 2000, and were married in 2002. They later starred in the films Scooby-Doo and Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed together. They have two children together.

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Sarah Michelle Gellar And Freddie Prinze Jr.

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Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon

While Kevin Bacon is best known for films like Footloose and Diner, it was on the low-budget production of Lemon Sky where he would meet his future wife Kyra Sedgwick, in 1988. In an interview, Bacon said: “The time I was hitting what I considered to be bottom was also the time I met my wife, our kids were born, good things were happening. And I was able to keep supporting myself; that always gave me strength.”

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Kyra Sedgwick And Kevin Bacon

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Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis

Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis first met on the set of That 70’s Show in 1998. However, they did not get together for years. Ashton was first married to Demi Moore and Mila was in a long term relationship with Macauly Culkin. When those relationships ended, Ashton and Mila ended up spending more time together, and then officially began dating. They got married in 2015 and have two children together.

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Ashton Kutcher And Mila Kunis

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Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively

Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds met one another while they were filming The Green Lantern in early 2010. At the time, Reynolds was married to Scarlet Johansson, while Lively was dating her Gossip Girl co-star Penn Badgley. Once the two relationships ended, they ended up together, marrying each other in 2012. Lively told Marie Claire:  “I knew he would always be my best friend for my whole life. That was the biggest thing to me. I could like him as much as I loved him.” They have three children together.

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Blake Lively And Ryan Reynolds

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Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux

Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux first met while on the set of Tropic Thunder in 2007. They worked together once again in 2010’s Wanderlust. However, Theroux was in a relationship with Heidi Bivens until 2011. Once they broke up, he and Aniston began dating, and they ended up getting married in 2015. However, they separated in 2018, with Theroux telling the New York Times: “It was kind of the most gentle separation, in that there was no animosity.”

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Jennifer Aniston And Justin Theroux

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Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton

Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton met while they were both judges on The Voice back in 2014. At the time, they were both in the midst of divorces from their previous spouses. In 2015, they were both single again, but it didn’t take long before they got together. They have since recorded several songs together, and in 2021, they made it official and tied the knot.

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Gwen Stefani And Blake Shelton

Gwen Stefani And Blake Shelton

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Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield

Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield met while they were filming The Amazing Spider-Man in 2011. Just as their on-screen characters did, the two fell for once another and eventually got engaged. Their wedding was planned for summer 2015, and was to take place in Rome. However, they ended their relationship before they could reach the big day.

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Emma Stone And Andrew Garfield

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Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman

Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman first met in 2000 when they were in a play named The Berlin Circle. They quickly got together and eventually were married in 2003. Mullally went on to star on Will & Grace, on which Offerman guest starred, and she guest starred on his show, Parks and Recreation. They also have a podcast together called In Bed with Nick and Megan.

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Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos

Kelly Ripa met Mark Conseulos in 1995 while they both starred on the soap All My Children. They eloped in 1996 and have been together ever since. They have three children together. Ripa once said in Good Housekeeping: “I never thought about getting married. “It never occurred to me that I would grow old with someone. When I saw the photograph of him, I saw my entire future with him flash before [my eyes].”

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Kelly Ripa And Mark Consuelos

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Tea Leoni and Tim Daly

Tim Daly and Tea Leoni met while on the set of Madam Secretary, on which they play a married couple. They began dating in 2014, and they realized that they both attended the same school, The Putney School, though they were 10 years apart. Daly shared: “We had a few of the same teachers, which is really crazy.”

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Tea Leoni And Tim Daly

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Lea Michele and Cory Monteith

Lea Michele and Cory Monteith met on the set of Glee in 2008. By 2012, it was reported that they were in a relationship. They remained together until July 2013, when he tragically overdosed and passed away when he was just 31 years old.

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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie famously met while they were filming Mr. and Mrs. Smith in 2005. While he was married to Jennifer Aniston at the time, they ended up getting a divorce, and shortly after, Pitt and Jolie were spotted together. They were together for many years before they got married in 2014. However, by 2019, the two ended up getting divorced as well. They share 6 children together, both biological and adopted.

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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt

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Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth

Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth first met in 2009 while filming the romantic drama The Last Song. Hemsworth told Us Weekly: “You want to be professional, but when you’re filming those scenes with someone and pretending to love them, you’re not human if you don’t feel something.” They were on again, off again several times before they got married in 2018. However, just a year later they announced that they were separating, and by 2020, they were officially divorced.

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Miley Cyrus And Liam Hemsworth

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Johnny Depp and Amber Heard

Johnny Depp and Amber Heard first met on the set of The Rum Diary in 2011. At the time, Depp was still with his ex Vanessa Paradis. However, a year later the relationship was over, and Depp and Heard began to date. They got married in 2015, but just a year later, their drama began. She filed for divorce in 2016, and though the divorce was finalized in 2017, they were in and out of courts with lengthy, public battles through many more years.

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Johnny Depp And Amber Heard

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Benjamin McKenzie and Morena Baccarin

While Benjamin McKenzie and Morena Baccarin technically first met on the set of The OC, apparently he didn’t remember that! He said on the Late Late Show: “I apparently blew her off.” Luckily, she forgave him when they met once again on the set of Gotham. As she was divorcing her ex Austin Chick, she began dating McKenzie, and was quickly pregnant with their daughter, who was born in 2016. They got married a year later. They had a second son together, and another step son.

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Benjamin McKenzie And Morena Baccarin

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Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz

Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz were friends for a while after they met in 1994 on the set of Les Grandes Horizontales before they began dating one another. They worked together on Dream House in 2010, in which they played a married couple, and that’s when they took things to the next level. They married in 2011 and had a daughter together in 2018.

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Milo Ventimiglia and Hayden Panettiere

Milo Ventimiglia and Hayden Panettiere met on the set of Heroes. Their characters were love interests, and this continued off-screen as well. They kept their relationship on the down low for about a year before they publicly appeared together in 2007. However, they ended their relationship two years later in 2009.

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Grace Gealey and Trai Byers

While filming Empire, Grace Gealey and Trai Byers first met in 2015. While their characters are not together on the show, in real life they began a romance that would result in their engagement and 2016 marriage. They got married in the Caribbean in a private ceremony.

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Eva Mendes and Ryan Gosling

Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes met while they were filming The Place Beyond the Pines in 2012, where they quickly fell in love. They kept their relationship private for years before stepping out publicly together as a couple. Although they’re not officially married, they have been together ever since and they share two daughters.

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Rose Leslie and Kit Harington

Rose Leslie and Kit Harington met in 2012 on the set of Game of Thrones, while their characters Ygritte and Jon Snow fell for one another. The pair began dating in real life as well, but only publicly confirmed it in 2016. They got married in 2018 and have a son together who was born in 2021.

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Rose Leslie And Kit Harington

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Lauren Morelli and Samira Wiley

Lauren Morelli and Samira Wiley met while working on Orange Is The New Black in 2012. At the time, Morelli was married to her husband, but by 2014, she divorced him and began a relationship with Wiley and also came out publicly. The pair got married in 2017 and have a daughter together who was born in 2021.

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Leighton Meester and Adam Brody

Many fans of The OC and Gossip Girl were thrilled to hear that Leighton Meester and Adam Brody were dating. The two met in 2010 on the set of The Oranges, and got married four years later in 2014. They have a son and a daughter together.

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Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem

Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem first met when they appeared in the 1992 film Jamon Jamon. However, they didn’t get together until they starred together in Vicky Cristina Barcelona in 2008. They were together for two years before getting married in 2010. They have two children together.

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Penelope Cruz And Javier Bardem

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Alexis Bledel and Vincent Kartheiser

Alexis Bledel and Vincent Kartheiser met on the set of Mad Men in 2012, when Bledel guest starred on a multi-episode arc. Their characters played love interests, and in real life they began dating as well. They got married in 2014 and a year later their son was born. However, they got divorced in 2022.

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Alexis Bledel And Vincent Kartheiser 

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Ginnifer Goodwin and Josh Dallas

In 2011, Ginnifer Goodwin and Josh Dallas met on the set of Once Upon a Time, where she played Snow White and he played Prince Charming. Their on-screen romance turned into a real life fairytale when they began dating off-screen. In 2013, they became engaged, and they were married a year later in 2014. They have two children together.

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Ginnifer Goodwin And Josh Dallas

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Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck met one another on the set of Gigli in 2001, and they began dating at the time. Though they got engaged in 2002, they broke up a year later. 20 years later, after they married and divorced other people, they reunited and got married in 2022.

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Jennifer Lopez And Ben Affleck

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Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons

Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons met in 2015 on the set of Fargo, on which they play husband and wife. They shortly fell for one another in real life as well, and officially began dting in 2016. A year later, he proposed, but they only officially tied the knot in 2022. They have two children together.

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Kirsten Dunst And Jesse Plemons

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Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer

Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer first met in 2007 when they played love interests Sookie Stackhouse and Bill Compton on True Blood. They began dating in real life as well, and two years later, he proposed. They got married in 2010 and became parents to twins in 2012.

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Jessica Alba and Cash Warren

Jessica Alba and Cash Warren met in 2004 while working on The Fantastic Four. He was a production assistant while she played Storm. By 2008, the two officially tied the knot. They have three children together.

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Natalie Portman and Benjamin Millepied

Natalie Portman and Benjamin Millepied met in 2009 on the set of Black Swan, while he was working as the film’s choreographer and she was playing one of the main characters. Millepied left his girlfriend at the time to pursue Portman. In 2012, the two got married in California. They have two children together.

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Kaitlin Olson and Rob McElhenney

Kaitlin Olson and Rob McElhenney first met one another on the set of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. They began dating in 2006, keeping their relationship secret for about a year, even keeping their co-stars in the dark. Two years later, they got married in 2008. They have two sons together.

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Kaitlin Olson And Rob McElhenney

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LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian

When LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian met in 2009 while on set for TV film Northern Lights, they were both married to other people. However, they were drawn to one another and though the beginning of their relationship was surrounded by controversy, they have both stated that they do not have any regrets though they hate that people got hurt in the process. They got married in 2011.

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