7 Celebrity Couples Who Started Off as Costars Before Dating Years Later
7 Celebrity Couples Who Started Off as Costars Before Dating Years Later
Emily WeaverSat, November 7, 2026 at 1:30 PM UTC
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Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell on October 17, 2026 in Los Angeles, California; Rachel Weisz and Daniel Craig on October 8, 2025 in London, EnglandCredit: Frazer Harrison/WireImage; Dave Benett/WireImage -
Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell reconnected 17 years after filming The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band and have been together for more than 40 years
Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher became a couple after nearly 15 years of friendship following That ’70s Show
Jon Hamm and Anna Osceola met on Mad Men before marrying in 2023 and are expecting their first child
Some Hollywood romances are a slow burn with costars finding their way to each other years after first meeting.
Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell’s decades-long love story began in 1983 — 17 years after they first met professionally. Other costars like Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. built a friendship before pursuing something romantic.
Meanwhile, That ‘70s Show costars Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher were surprised by their eventual bond. Looking back, Kunis said the timing worked in their favor, explaining “there was nothing to hide“ once they took that step.
“I married my best friend. ... When we reconnected, I was 27 and I was a very different person than I was when I was 25, let alone when I was 21 or 19,” she said on The Drew Barrymore Show. “You go through different changes and you evolve. Hopefully you grow, you become different.”
“But he knew me through all of them, and I knew him through all of it, through the good, the bad, the ugly, you know, and vice versa,” she continued. “So when we reconnected, there was no getting to know each other.”
Here are seven celebrity couples who met as costars and ultimately got together.
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Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell
Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell on September 27, 2024 in Beverly Hills, CaliforniaCredit: Amy Sussman/Getty
Hawn and Russell have been together for more than 40 years.
The couple first met while filming the 1966 movie musical The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band. Years later, they crossed paths again on the set of Swing Shift in 1983, and the rest is history.
“I was 21 and he was 16 and I thought he was adorable but he was much too young,” Hawn recalled of their first interaction during a Desert Island Discs interview on BBC Radio 4.
She continued, “And then years later we met up again and I liked him and I remembered that I liked him very much when I first met him. But we both said we would never go out with another actor so it just shows you never can tell.”
They have one son together, Wyatt Russell. Hawn is also mom to Oliver Hudson and Kate Hudson, while Russell has a son, Boston Russell, from a previous marriage.
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Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr.
Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. on July 14, 2025 in Los Angeles, CaliforniaCredit: Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty
Gellar and Prinze struck up a romance three years after working together in the 1997 slasher film I Know What You Did Last Summer.
The duo remained close friends over the years — in fact, their first date came about by happenstance when a mutual friend canceled on their plans, leaving Gellar and Prinze on their own.
“We were just two people at dinner catching up,” Gellar told PEOPLE Now in March 2020. “We had a long car ride and a long dinner and things just happened.”
Prinze said that from that point on, “I didn’t go on dates with other girls, nor did I even want to pursue dates with other girls.”
The couple married in September 2002. They welcomed daughter Charlotte in 2009 and son Rocky in 2012.
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Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem
Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz on September 8, 2026 in Venice, ItalyCredit: Laurent KOFFEL/Gamma-Rapho via Getty
Penélope Cruz was 16 years old when she met Javier Bardem, whom she starred opposite of in the 1992 film Jamón, Jamón.
It wasn’t until 2008 when the pair reunited on-screen for Vicky Cristina Barcelona that they began dating.
“We met each other and knew each other before all of the noise, before success and before anybody saw us with different eyes because of who we now were, what we had become,” Bardem told Gentleman’s Journal in 2024.
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He continued, “And that’s an important base, to rely on someone because you know them for real, and they know you for real. You see me, I see you. That’s important.”
Cruz and Bardem wed in the Bahamas in 2010. They welcomed their son, Leo, in January 2011 and their daughter, Luna, in July 2013.
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Rachel Weisz and Daniel Craig
Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz on November 14, 2015 in Los Angeles, CaliforniaCredit: Michael Buckner/Variety/Penske Media via Getty
Rachel Weisz and Daniel Craig first crossed paths in 1994 on the set of Les Grandes Horizontales at the National Theatre Studio in London.
Fourteen years passed before the pair reconnected while filming Dream House in 2010 and subsequently began dating. They exchanged “I dos” in an intimate New York ceremony in June 2011, despite Weisz once thinking marriage wasn’t for her.
“I never thought I would get married,” she told the The London Standard in January 2018. “It was not an ambition of mine. It was the opposite. I couldn’t relate to romantic comedies — marriage seems to be the whole point of them. Then it just happened, happily, at a more mature moment.”
The couple welcomed their first child together, daughter Grace, in 2018. Craig also shares daughter Ella Loudon with ex-wife Fiona Loudon. Weisz has a son, Henry, with director Darren Aronofsky.
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Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher
Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher on January 11, 2026 in Beverly Hills, CaliforniaCredit: Christopher Polk/2026GG/Penske Media via Getty
That ‘70s Show costars Kunis and Kutcher were friends for nearly 15 years before getting together.
Kunis and Kutcher are best known for playing on-again, off-again couple Jackie Burkhart and Michael Kelso. In fact, Kunis’ first-ever kiss was with Kutcher, and it happened on-screen.
Despite their fictional chemistry, Kutcher and Kunis didn’t date during the show’s run, and they went on to have other relationships. In January 2012, Kutcher and Kunis reconnected at the Golden Globe Awards.
“I was looking around, and there was a really beautiful man from the back. I was literally like, ‘Oh, he’s kinda hot’ … and then he turned around, and I was like, ‘Oh my god, it’s Kutch,’ ” Kunis recalled on the WTF with Marc Maron podcast. “I thought it was the weirdest thing that I was checking this guy out, and it was someone that I had known forever.”
After two years of dating, Kunis and Kutcher got engaged in 2014. Their daughter Wyatt was born that October. The actors married in July 2015, before welcoming their son Dimitri in November 2016.
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Melissa Benoist and Chris Wood
Melissa Benoist and Chris Wood on November 3, 2022 in New York CityCredit: Nina Westervelt/Variety via Getty
Melissa Benoist and Chris Wood first met while working on Supergirl in 2016, but neither was single at the time.
Benoist was married to former Glee costar Blake Jenner, though they divorced in December 2017. Wood, meanwhile, reportedly ended his relationship with Australian actress Hanna Mangan-Lawrence in January 2017.
Following their respective breakups, the costars began dating in real life. They welcomed their first child, son Huxley, in September 2020 — about one year after tying the knot.
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Jon Hamm and Anna Osceola
Jon Hamm and Anna Osceola on April 14, 2026 in Studio City, CaliforniaCredit: Kayla Oaddams/WireImage
Jon Hamm and Anna Osceola sparked romance rumors in June 2020. The pair met five years prior in 2015 when Osceola joined the cast of Mad Men in its final season.
They made their red carpet debut at an Oscars afterparty in March 2022. Hamm proposed in February 2023 and they married four months later that June.
PEOPLE confirmed in August 2026 that the couple were expecting their first child.
Since Mad Men, Hamm and Osceola have also costarred in the 2022 film Confess, Fletch and Apple TV’s Your Friends & Neighbors.
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